By Lauren Sausser There was no shortage of Campbell Hill residents clammering for the microphone at an April 23 meeting to let Planning and Zoning Board members know loudly and clearly they don’t want a new proposed senior community in their backyard. A senior housing community slated to be built in the Campbell Hill subdivision off Route 3 ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThere is service to be cut a growing market for senior housing in Hooksett, and four proposed developments for residents 55 and older attest to it. And the hoops that developers jump through to build similar neighborhoods may get easier. A proposed zoning amendment that was considered at a public hearing Monday, Feb. 23, would ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERA Hooksett developer is seeking Zoning Board approval for a new senior condominium complex – the third similar development tentatively slated along the Route 3 corridor. Beaver Brook Development of Hooksett has proposed an as-yet unnamed 36-unit, threestory structure off Nancy Lane. A special exception granted by the ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThough the rainy season has come and gone this year, homeowners in the Beauchesne neighborhood in the heart of the Village area in Hooksett are worried two new 55-and-older communities on Route 3 will mean drainage problems in their basements further down the line. More than 20 homeowners attended a Hooksett Planning Board ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERThe new Hooksett Lowe’s on Route 3A is up and running yet the next-door Wal-Mart, in the works since 2005, is still getting its design blueprints straightened out. Ron Savoie, a member of the Hooksett Zoning Board of Adjustment, wants to see the job done. “This is ridiculous,” Savoie said during a recent Zoning ...

BY JENN McDOWELLMembers of the Hooksett Planning Board and Town Council are looking at options for expanding Route 3 and solving some of the drainage issues in the Kmart plaza and Merchant’s auto sales parking lots. The town has more than $4 million in federal funds available to spend on expanding Route 3, but those funds could be taken ...

BY LAUREN SAUSSERIf there were any doubts about the suggestion that Route 3 in Hooksett -- between Benton Road and Martins Ferry Road -- needs repairing, the weekend’s storm cleared those up. The many stores flooded in the Kmart plaza prove something underground isn’t working right. That’s why state officials addressed the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLIt’s pretty unusual for one to find representative members of Hooksett’s Planning Board, Zoning Board, Town Council and Conservation Commission in the same room at once. But after inquiring of developers who have been working with the town and meeting with them back in June, the groups got together in the Town Council ...

BY JENN McDOWELLIn addition to the financial items already discussed at Hooksett’s deliberative session of Town Meeting and electing town officials, voters will also weigh in on several zoning amendments when the polls open on Tuesday, May 13. While the majority of the amendments are what Planning Board Chairman *** Marshall termed ...

BY JENN McDOWELLEconomic impact numbers for the proposed Head’s Pond project in the northeastern part of Hooksett showed the 428- unit housing development would likely generate about $3 million in property tax revenues for the town. Russell Thibeault, the consultant with Applied Economic Research hired by Manchester Sand and Gravel to study ...