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Select Board rep relays NH DOT 4-way stop proposal; transfer station upgrades underway
Summary
Select Board representative Richard Doucette reported NH DOT’s proposal to convert several intersections to 4-way stops for safety, noted community concerns about traffic backups, and summarized transfer-station improvements (new recycling building under construction; USDA grant considered for final-phase funding). He also recorded that brush is no longer accepted and a local resident has offered an alternative.
Richard Doucette, the Select Board representative to the Conservation Commission, briefed commissioners on several Select Board matters. He said that NH DOT proposed converting several intersections to 4-way stops as a cost-effective safety improvement; DOT advised that traffic impacts would be minimal compared with signals, though some community members voiced concern about potential backups. Doucette noted the Chocorua Village Association supports the proposal and that the Select Board will take a vote at an upcoming meeting.
Doucette also reported that construction of a new recycling building at the transfer station has begun and that final-phase improvements (truck scale or paving) are being considered with USDA grant funding. The minutes record that brush is no longer accepted at the transfer station and that a local resident, Wyatt Berrier, offered an alternative disposal option; the Select Board has no current plans to open a new brush disposal area because of monitoring concerns.
