Goffstown News : zoning

Boat business dispute sails away from owner

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:49:00 GMT

BY DAN O’BRIEN The battle over an illegally operated Danis Park Road boat business has sailed in a favorable direction for concerned neighbors. After an unusual urging by the Board of Selectmen, the Zoning Board of Adjustment reversed an earlier...(read more)

Right to raze house denied

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:11:00 GMT

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)

Man says civil rights violated

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:19:00 GMT

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)

Slaughterhouse rehearing denied

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:53:00 GMT

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)

Slaughterhouse plans denied special exception

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:39:00 GMT

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)

Town, church disagree over land

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:33:00 GMT

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)

Questions raised about Article 9

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:45:00 GMT

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)

Churches banned from industrial zone?

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:36:00 GMT

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)

Abutters air condo complaints

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:23:00 GMT

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)

Church plan rejected

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:57:00 GMT

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)

Condo plan tabled

Goffstown Editor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:47:00 GMT

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)