LONDONDERRY TIMES ————––––––————–◆ to Fund an Update to the Large Underground Hairman of the Con- 1991 Plan; a Request for Aquifers in Town
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HOMETOWN NEWS DELIVERED TO EVERY HOME IN TOWN FREE September 20, 2018 N Volume 19 – Issue 37 A FREE Weekly Publication Town Planners Talk Water Study, Zoning Change Review Process MIKE BYERLY tion Commission intends because there are no LONDONDERRY TIMES ————––––––————–N to fund an update to the large underground hairman of the Con- 1991 plan; a request for aquifers in town. Another servation Commis- proposals is ready to be study, approved and fund- Csion, Marge Badois, released this month.” ed by voters this spring, attended a recent Planning “The objectives of this is distinct from this Man- Board meeting to review plan remain the same as agement Plan update and plans for an updated in 1991: identify sources, is focused on water quan- water management plan understand threats, proj- tity. Together, the two focused on getting a sense ect future demand, ana- efforts will create a com- of the underground water lyze the adequacy of prehensive approach to supply in Londonderry. water supplies now and managing our water According to Badois, future, and recommend resources. “Our [current] water man- ways to keep our water Badois shared that the agement plan was done as clean and plentiful.” implementation of the part of the Town’s 1991 Badois pointed out study will be with the Master Plan, when Lon- that this study will focus assistance of town staff donderry’s population on the quantity of water and through a working was 17,105. Now, 28 years available. She also men- group to be appointed by later, there are roughly tioned that Londonder- the Town Manager that 10,000 more people draw- ry’s water supply is heav- will include staff and rep- ing on the same sources ily reliant on replenish- resentatives from the of water. The Conserva- ment from precipitation continued on page 3 NN Capital Improvement Plan Reviewed by Planning Board passing it onto the Town although the committee MIKE BYERLY Council for their review. has the discretion to sug- Travelers using Stonehenge Road have been met with this closure sign LONDONDERRY TIMES ————––––––————–N This year’s CIP includes six gest that such projects be for much of the summer. According to the town it will continue for the uring its meeting on projects, two minor ones done earlier than that next few weeks. Photo by Chris Paul Sept. 12 the Plan- for the town and four major The town projects Dning Board re- ones for the school district. include $235K for drain- viewed the town’s pro- The CIP process rates age improvements for the Stonehenge Road Closure posed Capital Improve- projects on a 1-4 scale town common and $175K ment Plan (CIP). The CIP and recommends a year for a new backup genera- prioritizes and sets a ten- for each project to be tor for the police depart- Will Continue into the Fall tative timeline for major funded within a six-year ment. The drainage im- capital projects for Lon- window. A one rating provements were rated a CHRIS PAUL donderry. In most cases, means the project is two and proposed for LONDONDERRY TIMES about a mile long, has had half the ————––––––————–N roadway shut down to through traf- the proposed projects urgent for public safety. continued on page 5 or just about the entire summer, fic since just before July 4, and is end up on the ballot as Two means the project maintains a basic level of residents and commuters that currently still in that state. questions for voters to PRESORTED STANDARD Fuse Stonehenge Road have been approve or reject. Often public service and should According to John Trottier, Lon- US POSTAGE PAID inconvenienced by the off sight donderry's Assistant Director of the funding is a bond, but be done within three improvements that have been hap- Public Works and Engineering, the for smaller projects they years. A three rating LONDONDERRY, NH 03053 pening in association with the Mac- project has hit a few snags. Most of can be investments paid means that the project is Permit #57 ECRWSS Gregor Cut housing project on that which involve the fact that the crews for in a single year. desirable and should be road. working on supplying gas, water and The Planning Board done within the next 4-6 Stonehenge Road, which is only gets recommendations years. A rating of four POSTAL PATRON continued on page 3 from the CIP Committee means that it can be LONDONDERRY, NH 03053 and can adjust it before deferred at least six years, N PAGE 2LONDONDERRY TIMES N SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 Apple Season Gets Underway as Peach Season Ends Some of the first varieties of early apple picking are now available at local orchards in Londonder- ry. Near the U-pick Peach Area at Moose Hill Orchards people were also picking Marshall Macs. Pic- tured are Greyson Perrinez and Mack’s Apples employee, Caleb Ellis picking on Monday afternoon. 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Where's tember." Thus ending the tion. the town oversight? Next inconvenience that area One of the abutters to the taxpayers will be foot- residents have had to the project, David Nease, ing the bill to build a new endure all summer. The who lives on Faye Lane, elementary school. None box cut, is the stripping commented, "These are of this should be a sur- away of old material, and the same concerns resi- prise." laying new material and dents brought up at Hardy Road residents pavement. dozens of Planning and have been directly affect- Along with the prob- ZBA meetings and the ed by the summer-long Stonehenge Road has been closed to through traffic for much of the summer, lem of not being able to town ignored. It started road closure also, with which will continue to be the case until the middle of October. use he road, residents on with daily blasting over much of the traffic being Photo by Chris Paul Hardy Road have seen a the summer, road clo- re-routed down their huge increase in the sures, and the constant street. surprised, "Not only did insult to injury by pro- the Mammoth/Stone- amount of traffic because sound of heavy equip- Kerry Stanley, who they allow for this cluster longing the construction. henge/Litchfield intersec- of the road closure, the ment and jack hammers. lives on Hardy Road is not to happen, they've added What month are we on tion. I guess you really now with having to can put a square peg into N N reroute around? Two? a round hole after all, replied that it was impos- study citing some well 28 Performance Overlay Three? I've lost track. It's when you force it." Planning sible to predict at this issues in town, periodic Zones and subsume the like Stonehenge East Also compounding the Continued from page 1 point, but that it could issues from droughts and current C-I and C-II com- doesn't even exist any- issue is the ongoing I-93 potentially be a study the rapid growth in resi- mercial districts into this more. When it finally does expansion project that Town Council, Planning finding. dents and businesses tap- new zone. Mailloux plans open, we will get to deal will continue for the fore- Board and Conservation Board Member Al ping the water supply. to invite impacted with the onslaught of seeable future as the state Commission and the pub- Sypek asked what other In other business, landowners to a public more traffic as occupancy widens the bridges at the lic. Board Member Peter recommendations might Town Planner Colleen information session in of the apartments begins. opposite end of Stone- Commerford volunteered come from the study. Mailloux updated the October, although some We are already seeing it at henge Road. to be the Planning Board Referring to examples Board on plans to review owners have already representative. from the 1991 study, proposed commercial reached out to the plan- Badois said that the Badois cited potential rec- zoning changes and a ning department to learn “Honesty, Request for Proposals ommendation to con- restructuring of the zon- about the changes. She Integrity & and Statement of Work serve sensitive areas, pro- ing ordinance guidelines shared that in total a few are ready to be released grams to improve man- with the public and other hundred landowners Attention to once approved with work agement of private septic town boards. would be impacted by the Detail” anticipated to begin prior systems, water conserva- The commercial zon- changes. to December 1 and goal to tion ideas. She also said it ing changes would create After this session, the Specializing in Kitchens, Bathrooms finish the study before will be very helpful for a Commercial Perfor- proposed changes would the budgeting process planning purposes to mance Zone (CPZ) that go back to the Planning and Home Remodeling Projects begins for next fiscal year.