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NH Rev Stat § 673:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 673 - Local Land Use Boards|Section 673:17 - Open Meetings; Records.

    673:17 Open Meetings;  Records. –||Each local land use board shall hold its meetings and maintain its records in accordance with RSA 91-A.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 673:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 673 - Local Land Use Boards|Section 673:18 - Abolishing Planning Board, Heritage Commission, Historic District Commission, Agricultural Commission, or Housing Commission.

    673:18 Abolishing Planning Board, Heritage Commission, Historic District Commission, Agricultural Commission, or Housing Commission. –||I. The local legislative body of a city, of a county in which there are located unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or of a town operating under the town council form of government, shall determine the manner in which the planning board, the heritage commission, the historic district commission, the agricultural commission, or the housing commission may be abolished.||II. In all other towns, upon a petition to abolish the planning board, the heritage commission, the historic district commission, the agricultural commission, or the housing commission, signed by 100 or more voters or 1/10 of the registered voters in town, whichever number is less, the planning board, heritage commission, historic district commission, agricultural commission, or housing commission shall submit the proposal to the town or village district in the same manner prescribed in RSA 675:4, except that the question put to the voters shall be in substantially the following form: "Are you in favor of abolishing the planning board (heritage commission, historic district commission, agricultural commission, or housing commission) as proposed by petition of the voters of this town (village district)?"|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:12. 1992, 64:10. 2007, 266:7. 2008, 391:7, eff. Sept. 15, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 673:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 673 - Local Land Use Boards|Section 673:19 - Effect of Abolishing Planning Boards.

    673:19 Effect of Abolishing Planning Boards. –||Upon the effective date of the abolition of a planning board, all land use control activities in the municipality formerly performed by the planning board shall cease. Existing zoning ordinances shall remain in effect following the abolition date for a period not to exceed 2 years from the date of such action, but no amendment to a zoning ordinance requiring action by the former planning board shall be permitted.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 673:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 673 - Local Land Use Boards|Section 673:20 - Effect of Abolishing Heritage Commissions, Historic District Commissions, Agricultural Commissions, and Housing Commissions.

    673:20 Effect of Abolishing Heritage Commissions, Historic District Commissions, Agricultural Commissions, and Housing Commissions. –||Upon the effective date of the abolition of a heritage commission, historic district commission, agricultural commission, or housing commission all the powers and duties of such commission shall cease.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1992, 64:11. 2007, 266:8. 2008, 391:8, eff. Sept. 15, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 673:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 673 - Local Land Use Boards|Section 673:21 - Transfer of Documents Upon Abolition of Planning Board, Heritage Commission, Historic District Commission, Agricultural Commission, and Housing Commission.

    673:21 Transfer of Documents Upon Abolition of Planning Board, Heritage Commission, Historic District Commission, Agricultural Commission, and Housing Commission. –||I. Whenever a heritage commission, historic district commission, agricultural commission, or housing commission is abolished, the records shall be transferred to the planning board. In a municipality where a planning board does not exist, the records shall be transferred to the city, town, or village district clerk, or to the clerk for the county commissioners, whichever is appropriate.||II. Whenever a planning board is abolished, the records shall be transferred to the city or town clerk, to the clerk of the board of district commissioners, or to the clerk for the county commissioners, whichever is appropriate.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1989, 266:13. 1992, 64:12. 2007, 266:9. 2008, 391:9, eff. Sept. 15, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 673:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 673 - Local Land Use Boards|Section 673:22 - Transfer of Documents Upon Abolition of Zoning Ordinance or Building Code.

    673:22 Transfer of Documents Upon Abolition of Zoning Ordinance or Building Code. –||I. Whenever a zoning ordinance is abolished, the records of the zoning board of adjustment shall be transferred to the planning board.||II. Whenever a building code is abolished, the records of the building code board of appeals shall be transferred to the planning board.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:3 - Master Plan Preparation.

    674:3 Master Plan Preparation. –||I. In preparing, revising, or amending the master plan, the planning board may make surveys and studies, and may review data about the existing conditions, probable growth demands, and best design methods to prevent sprawl growth in the community and the region. The board may also consider the goals, policies, and guidelines of any regional or state plans, as well as those of abutting communities.||II. Revisions to the plan are recommended every 5 to 10 years.||III. During the preparation of the various sections of the master plan, the board shall inform the general public and the office of planning and development and regional planning commissions and solicit public comments regarding the future growth of the municipality in order to involve citizens in the preparation of the master plan in a way which is most appropriate for the municipality.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 2002, 178:3; 229:9. 2003, 319:93. 2004, 257:44, eff. July 1, 2004. 2017, 156:64, eff. July 1, 2017. 2021, 91:198, eff. July 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:4 - Master Plan Adoption and Amendment.

    674:4 Master Plan Adoption and Amendment. –||The planning board may, according to the procedures required under RSA 675:6, adopt the master plan as a whole, or may adopt successive sections or parts of the plan. Sections or parts of the plan shall correspond with major geographical sections or divisions of the municipality, or with the functional elements of the plan, and may incorporate any amendment, extension, or addition to the plan.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:5 - Authorization.

    674:5 Authorization. –||In a municipality where the planning board has adopted a master plan, the local legislative body may authorize the planning board to prepare and amend a recommended program of municipal capital improvement projects projected over a period of at least 6 years. As an alternative, the legislative body may authorize the governing body of a municipality to appoint a capital improvement program committee, which shall include at least one member of the planning board and may include but not be limited to other members of the planning board, the budget committee, or the town or city governing body, to prepare and amend a recommended program of municipal capital improvement projects projected over a period of at least 6 years. The capital improvements program may encompass major projects being currently undertaken or future projects to be undertaken with federal, state, county and other public funds. The sole purpose and effect of the capital improvements program shall be to aid the mayor or selectmen and the budget committee in their consideration of the annual budget.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 2002, 90:1, eff. July 2, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:6 - Purpose and Description.

    674:6 Purpose and Description. –||The capital improvements program shall classify projects according to the urgency and need for realization and shall recommend a time sequence for their implementation. The program may also contain the estimated cost of each project and indicate probable operating and maintenance costs and probable revenues, if any, as well as existing sources of funds or the need for additional sources of funds for the implementation and operation of each project. The program shall be based on information submitted by the departments and agencies of the municipality and shall take into account public facility needs indicated by the prospective development shown in the master plan of the municipality or as permitted by other municipal land use controls.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:7 - Preparation.

    674:7 Preparation. –||I. In preparing the capital improvements program, the planning board or the capital improvement program committee shall confer, in a manner deemed appropriate by the board or the committee, with the mayor or the board of selectmen, or the chief fiscal officer, the budget committee, other municipal officials and agencies, the school board or boards, and shall review the recommendations of the master plan in relation to the proposed capital improvements program.||II. Whenever the planning board or the capital improvement program committee is authorized and directed to prepare a capital improvements program, every municipal department, authority or agency, and every affected school district board, department or agency, shall, upon request of the planning board or the capital improvement program committee, transmit to the board or committee a statement of all capital projects it proposes to undertake during the term of the program. The planning board or the capital improvement program committee shall study each proposed capital project, and shall advise and make recommendations to the department, authority, agency, or school district board, department or agency, concerning the relation of its project to the capital improvements program being prepared.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1995, 43:1. 2002, 90:2, eff. July 2, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:8 - Consideration by Mayor and Budget Committee.

    674:8 Consideration by Mayor and Budget Committee. –||Whenever the planning board or the capital improvement program committee has prepared a capital improvements program under RSA 674:7, it shall submit its recommendations for the current year to the mayor or selectmen and the budget committee, if one exists, for consideration as part of the annual budget.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 2002, 90:3, eff. July 2, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:9 - Mapping of Street Lines by Planning Board.

    674:9 Mapping of Street Lines by Planning Board. –||At any time after a planning board has adopted a master plan of the municipality which includes a major street plan or has progressed in its master planning to the stage of the making and adoption of a major street plan, the local legislative body may authorize the planning board to make or cause to be made from time to time surveys for the exact locating of the lines of new, extended, widened, or narrowed streets in the whole or in any portion of the municipality. The local legislative body may also empower the planning board to make and certify to the local legislative body, when completed, a plat of the area thus surveyed on which are indicated the locations of the lines recommended by the planning board as the planned or mapped lines of future streets, street extensions, street widenings, or street narrowings. The making or certifying of a plat by the planning board, under the authorization of the local legislative body, shall not in and of itself constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishment of any street or the taking or acceptance of any land for street purposes.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:10 - Establishment of Official Map.

    674:10 Establishment of Official Map. –||After the planning board of any municipality has adopted a master plan which includes a major street plan, or has progressed in its master planning to the stage of the making and adoption of a major street plan, and has certified a copy of a major street plan to the local legislative body, as provided in RSA 674:9, the local legislative body is hereby empowered and authorized to establish an official map of the municipality showing the location of the exterior lines of streets of the whole or of any parts of the municipality up to that time existing, laid out and established by law as public streets, and may also show the location of the exterior lines of parks. The official map is to be deemed to be final and conclusive with respect to the location and width of streets and the location of parks shown thereon. The official map established under this section shall be established to conserve and promote the public health, safety, convenience or general welfare. The ordinance establishing or adopting the official map shall provide that a certificate, signed by the city or town clerk, the village district clerk, or other duly authorized recording official, giving notice that the municipality has established an official map, including the date of its establishment, shall be filed with the register of deeds of the county or counties in which the municipality is situated. Such certificates shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the official map as adopted or established. Whenever a municipality has established an official map and has filed a certificate to that effect, together with a copy of the official map, with the register of deeds for the county or counties in which the municipality is situated, then no plat of a subdivision of land within the municipality shall thereafter be filed or recorded at the office of the register of deeds until it has been approved by the planning board and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the chairperson or secretary of the planning board.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1995, 43:2, eff. July 2, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:11 - Amendments to Official Map.

    674:11 Amendments to Official Map. –||The local legislative body is authorized and empowered, whenever and as often as it may deem it advisable or necessary for the public interest, to change or add to the official map of the municipality. Amendments may be made in order to establish the exterior lines of the new streets or parks, or to widen, extend, relocate, narrow, vacate, abandon, or close existing streets or parks, and to indicate the acceptance of, change of use, acquisition of land for, or sale or lease of any street or other public way, ground, place, property, or structure. No change shall become effective until after a public hearing has been held on the change, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have had an opportunity to be heard. Notice of the public hearing shall be given by publishing at least 10 days before the public hearing a notice of such hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, and by posting a notice to the same effect at the city or town hall, or in whatever place other notices required by law in connection with municipal affairs are posted or customarily displayed. Before making such addition, amendment, or change, the local legislative body shall refer the matter to the planning board for a report. If the planning board does not make its report within 30 days of such reference, it shall be deemed to have forfeited the right to further suspend action. In the event that the planning board disapproves the proposed addition, amendment, or change, the local legislative body shall not have the right to overrule the planning board's decision, unless by vote of not less than 2/3 of its entire membership in case of a city, or by majority vote of the legal voters present and voting at a regular or special town or district meeting in the case of a town or village district. Such additions, amendments, and changes when adopted shall become a part of the official map of the municipality and shall be deemed to be final and conclusive with respect to the location of the streets and parks shown on the official map. The locating, widening, narrowing, or closing, or the approval of locating, widening, narrowing, or closing, of streets and parks by the municipality under provisions of law other than those contained in this subdivision shall be deemed to be a change or addition to the official map and shall be subject to all the provisions of this subdivision.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:12 - Refusal of Permit.

    674:12 Refusal of Permit. –||A municipality which has established and recorded an official map, as provided in RSA 674:10, may for the purpose of preserving the integrity of such official map provide by ordinance that, from and after the time of such recording, no permit shall be issued for any building or structure, or part thereof, in the bed of or on any land located between the mapped lines of any street as shown or laid out on such official map, except as provided in RSA 674:13.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:13 - Appeals Where There is a Zoning Ordinance.

    674:13 Appeals Where There is a Zoning Ordinance. –||I. Any zoning ordinance adopted pursuant to RSA 674:16 shall provide that the board of adjustment created under a local zoning ordinance and having the power to make variances or exceptions in zoning regulations shall have the further power, in specific cases and by vote of a majority of its members, upon an appeal filed with it by the owner of any such land, to grant a permit based on considerations of justice and equity for a building or structure, or part thereof, in a mapped-street location shown on the official map, in any case in which the board of adjustment finds, upon the evidence and arguments presented to it upon appeal:||(a) That the property of the appellant of which such mapped-street location forms a part will not yield a reasonable return to the owner unless such permit be granted; or||(b) That, balancing the interest of the municipality in preserving the integrity of the official map and in not increasing too greatly the cost of later opening such street, and the interest of the owner in the use and benefits of the owner's property, the grant of such permit is required by considerations of justice and equity.||II. In the event that the board of adjustment decides to authorize or issue a building permit in such case, it shall have the power to specify the exact location, ground area to be used or occupied, height, and other reasonable details and conditions of extent and character, and also the duration of the building, or part hereof, permitted. Such requirements shall be designed to promote the health, convenience, safety, or general welfare of and shall inure to the benefit of the municipality. The board of adjustment shall refuse a permit if the applicant will not be substantially damaged by placing the applicant's building outside the mapped-street location.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1995, 43:3, 4, eff. July 2, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:14 - Appeals Where no Zoning Ordinance Exists.

    674:14 Appeals Where no Zoning Ordinance Exists. –||In any municipality, other than a town, in which there is no zoning board of adjustment, the local legislative body, until such time as a board of adjustment may be appointed as a result of the adoption of a zoning ordinance, shall have the same powers as a board of adjustment to act, but only under the circumstances and in such special cases as are specified in RSA 674:13 and 674:41, and shall be subject to the same restrictions as apply to a board of adjustment. For this purpose, the local legislative body is hereby authorized to act as a discretionary administrative or quasi-judicial body. When so acting, it shall not sit as a legislative body but shall sit in a separate meeting for which separate minutes shall be kept. In any town or village district in which there is no board of adjustment, the local governing body is hereby authorized to designate a board of appeals to be composed of 5 members, serving as such without compensation, which shall have the authority of and shall be subject to the same restrictions and regulations as apply to a zoning board of adjustment, but which shall have the power to act only under the circumstances and in such special cases as are specified herein and only until such time as a board of adjustment may be appointed as a result of the adoption of a zoning ordinance.|||Source. 1983, 447:1. 1988, 131:1, eff. June 19, 1988.|
NH Rev Stat § 674:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LXIV - Planning and Zoning|Title 674 - Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers|Section 674:15 - Appeals; Public Hearing.

    674:15 Appeals;  Public Hearing. –||Before taking any action authorized in RSA 674:13, 674:14, and 674:41, the zoning board of adjustment, the legislative body, or the boards of appeal, according to whichever of them is designated by ordinance as the body to which appeals may be made, shall give a hearing at which parties in interest and others shall have an opportunity to be heard. Notice for a public hearing under this section shall be as provided in RSA 675:7.|||Source. 1983, 447:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1984.|