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• Right to raze house denied

  By Jillian Jorgensen The Goffstown Zoning Board of Adjustment denied a man’s appeal to tear down a home he owns within one of the town’s historic districts. The owner, Robert E. Naser, plans to appeal the board’s unanimous decision. Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:11 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, zoning, raze, Historical District

• Man says civil rights violated

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The man who wanted to build a slaughterhouse to meet the Muslim dietary standards his family follows is accusing the Goffstown Zoning Board of racial and religious discrimination. Negash Abdelkader wanted to build the slaughterhouse at Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:19 PM by Goffstown Editor | 5 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, zoning, slaughterhouse, Hillsborough County Superior Court

• Slaughterhouse rehearing denied

  BY STEPHEN BEALE The Zoning Board has denied a request for a rehearing of its Sept. 2 decision against a special exception for a Goffstown man who wants to build a slaughterhouse at his home for kosher and halal meat. In his rehearing request dated Sept. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 4:53 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, zoning, slaughterhouse

• Slaughterhouse plans denied special exception

  BY JENN McDOWELL A Goffstown resident who wanted to convert part of a barn on his property into a small animal processing operation will have to go back to square one. A packed Mildred Stark meeting room at Goffstown Town Hall erupted in applause from Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 03, 2008 4:39 PM by Goffstown Editor | 2 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Bedford, zoning, slaughterhouse

• Town, church disagree over land

  BY STEPHEN BEALE Economic development and private property rights are clashing in a plan for a new church building on land the town thinks is better suited for industry. At its last meeting in June, the Gofftsown Board of Selectmen voted to ask the Zoning Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:33 PM by Goffstown Editor | 3 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, zoning, churches, Board of Selectmen, Planning board

• Questions raised about Article 9

  BY JENN McDOWELL While Article 9, an amendment to Goffstown’s conservation district, passed at elections on March 11, contention over the map posted on the town’s Web site and a resulting revision to it surfaced before and after the vote. Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:45 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, zoning, Board of Selectmen, conservation district, wetlands, Planning board

• Churches banned from industrial zone?

  By Michelle Kim GOFFSTOWN – Goffstown voters can expect proposed zoning ordinance articles that prohibit churches and houses of worship in the industrial district and would add surface water to the wetland conservation ordinances as some of the Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 30, 2008 4:36 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, Merrimack Valley, zoning, churches

• Abutters air condo complaints

  BY MICHELLE KIM Abutters of a proposed 92-unit condo development on Bog Road aired concerns at a Planning Board hearing about the suitability of the site and neighborhood in accommodating so many people. The approximately 60-acre property, located between Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:23 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, zoning, housing

• Church plan rejected

  BY MICHELLE KIM The Planning Board voted Monday, Oct. 11, to rescind a previously granted completeness approval to Goffstown Harvest Christian Church’s new building plans due to changes and additions, sending it back to the Zoning Board. The Planning Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 4:57 PM by Goffstown Editor | 1 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, zoning, churches

• Condo plan tabled

  BY DAVE CHOATE A heated discussion involving board members, two sides of a property debate and a member of the Conservation Commission ended with the board voting unanimously to push the proposal back to Oct. 25. Janice Bournival had proposed to keep Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:47 PM by Goffstown Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Goffstown, voting, zoning