CHAPTER 194
SB 29 – FINAL VERSION
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2009 SESSION
03/01
SENATE BILL 29
AN ACT relative to review of developments of regional impact.
SPONSORS: Sen. DeVries, Dist 18; Sen. Lasky, Dist 13; Rep. Spang, Straf 7
COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs
This bill authorizes regional planning commissions to develop guidelines to assist local land use boards in determining whether a development has potential for regional impact.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/04/09 0422s
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09-0879
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT relative to review of developments of regional impact.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
194:1 Review of Applications for Development; Regional Impact; Guidelines. Amend RSA 36:56 to read as follows:
36:56 Review Required.
I. A local land use board, as defined in RSA 672:7, upon receipt of an application for development, shall review it promptly and determine whether or not the development, if approved, reasonably could be construed as having the potential for regional impact. Doubt concerning regional impact shall be resolved in a determination that the development has a potential regional impact.
II. Each regional planning commission may, with public participation following the public posting of notice of the intent to develop guidelines, including notice published in a newspaper of general circulation in the planning region, develop guidelines to assist the local land use boards in its planning region in their determinations whether or not a development has a potential regional impact. The regional planning commission may update the guidelines as needed and provide them, as voted by the regional planning commissioners, to all municipalities in the planning region.
194:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 13, 2009
Effective Date: September 11, 2009