Planning Board

Planning Board continues 22 Union Street special permit hearing due to snowstorm. Chair Sarah Creighton cited the Governor's emergency declaration, Town Hall closure, and widespread power outages as obstacles to meaningful public participation and moved to open and immediately continue the hearing

Planning Board moves five zoning articles toward annual town meeting. The board unanimously approved a downtown zoning revision excluding 37 Beach Street from the Town Center district, along with a senior housing article setting minimum lot sizes from half acre to one acre by district, an inn

Planning Board unanimously appoints two associate members and advances four zoning articles for Town Meeting. Nancy Garvey, a 20-year resident and former six-year Planning Board member, and Isabella Bates, an 82-year-old full-time resident of 16 years, were appointed to one-year terms expiring June

Planning Board holds public forum on proposed senior housing bylaw. Member Christopher Olney presented the first age-restricted zoning provisions in Manchester's history, aimed at retaining the town's 1,500 seniors currently lacking appropriate downsizing options; the bylaw would permit independent