A proposal for a development on Carley Road of 13 new house lots and one open-space lot has drawn considerable public comment and raised concerns about contamination issuesDuring a Peterborough Planning Board public hearing last month, Chad Branon, a.
Where the Methuen planning board denied approval of a nine-lot subdivision, the board’s decision must be annulled because (1) the board’s application of the Open Space Residential Development special permit bylaw requirements to the plan was improper and (2) the board did not reasonably apply a zoning ordinance provision concerning “low-impact development” techniques. “This case
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Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 7/12/2021 4:42:35 PM
The Town of Peterborough seeks to levy hefty fines for zoning and code violations against former Walden Eco Village landlord Akhil Garland and the Garland Family Realty Trust. The town filed its own suit against Garland in May, several months after Garland blamed the town for the December 2020 eviction of all 25 tenants at the Walden Eco Village in a separate, ongoing suit that several evicted tenants filed against Garland and his associated business and land trust in December.
The mass eviction followed a site inspection that revealed a number of permit and safety violations on the site, which was comprised of rental cottages as well as tiny houses, whose tenants accessed kitchen and bathroom facilities in a separate, communal building. Peterborough officials determined that eight of 15 total rental units were missing building permits, and other permitted structures were operating beyond their permitted use. Garland in
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 5/12/2021 12:10:55 PM
Peterborough’s Article 2 – and a Planning Board candidate who backed it – both won out at Town Meeting Tuesday, as voters passed all warrant articles and elected new members to the Planning, Zoning and Select boards while reelecting Town Clerk Linda Guyette.
New Planning Board member Stephanie Hurley said she hopes to work well with her colleagues after being driven to run for office by unpleasant experiences working with the board as a citizen, after petitions to repeal and/or modify Peterborough’s Traditional Neighborhood Overlay Zones I and II two years ago eventually led to a pair of lawsuits.