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Email the Governor: KELLY.A.AYOTTE@GOVERNOR.NH.GOV
HEARINGS – MONDAY 04/07/2025
*OPPOSE SB78 – This bill removes the zoning board of adjustment’s discretion for determining when to take an appeal and replaces it with a non-discretionary 30-day period.
https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=7756&q=billVersion
House Municipal and County Government Committee: Public Hearing: 04/07/2025 10:55 am LOB 301-303 – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL TO ASK THEM TO ITL.
HEARINGS – TUESDAY 04/08/2025
*OPPOSE SB174 – This bill prohibits planning boards from differentiating based on the number of bedrooms in a residential development during the hearing and approval process.
https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=7939&q=billVersion
House Housing Committee: Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 10:30 am LOB 305 – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL AND ASK THEM TO ITL.
*OPPOSE SB188 – Allows independent third-parties, hired by the property owner, to inspect land, buildings, and structures to determine compliance with state and local building codes and establishes private providers as an alternative to local enforcement agencies for conducting building code inspections and plan reviews.
https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=7956&q=billVersion
House Housing Committee: Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 11:00 am LOB 305 – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL TO ASK THEM TO ITL
*OPPOSE SB281 – This bill changes the requirements that allow a building to be constructed on a lot adjacent to a class VI roadway. https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=8000&q=billVersion
House Housing Committee: Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 11:30 am LOB 305 – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL AND ASK THEM TO ITL.
*OPPOSE SB282 – This bill allows residential buildings between 6 and 4 floors above grade to have only one stairway under certain conditions. https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=8002&q=billVersion
House Housing Committee: Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 1:00 am LOB 305 – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL AND ASK THEM TO ITL – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL AND ASK THEM TO ITL.
*OPPOSE SB283 – This bill requires municipalities to exclude below-grade areas from floor-area-ratio (FAR) calculations and review and adjust height limitations as needed to maximize capacity and height
potential for new construction.
https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=8004&q=billVersion
House Housing Committee: Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 1:30 am LOB 305 – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL AND ASK THEM TO ITL.
*OPPOSE SB284 – This bill limits residential parking spaces to one per unit, with exceptions for certain workforce housing and multi-family developments.
https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=8005&q=billVersion
House Housing Committee: Public Hearing: 04/08/2025 2:00 am LOB 305 – USE THE HOUSE PORTAL AND ASK THEM TO ITL.
HEARINGS – THURSDAY 04/10/2025
*OPPOSE HB631 – This bill allows multifamily or mixed-use developments as a permitted use by right in certain urban municipalities, outlines specific zoning regulations that cannot be imposed on such developments, and provides definitions for key terms. https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=6835&q=billVersion
Senate Commerce: Hearing: 04/10/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:15 am; SC 16 – USE THE SENATE PORTAL TO ASK THEM TO ITL.
*OPPOSE HB410 – This bill requires legislative bodies to utilize empirical, scientific evidence to support the adoption or imposition of any extraordinary restriction of residential property.
https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=5924&q=billVersion
Senate Commerce: Hearing: 04/10/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:30 am; SC 16 – USE THE SENATE PORTAL TO ASK THEM TO ITL.
OTHER
*OPPOSE HB572 – Title: (New Title) establishing the “partners in housing” program, an initiative under the housing champions fund to assist municipalities, counties, and developers in building workforce housing, and making an appropriation therefor.This bill creates the “partners in housing” program, a low-interest loan and grant program under the housing champions fund to assist municipalities, counties, and developers in building modestly priced housing, and provides an additional $10 million in funding for the housing champions fund.
https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/pdf.aspx?id=6709&q=billVersion
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EVENTS
Representative Len Turcotte, former Chair of the House Municipal Committee, will be speaking to these groups for awareness of this issue. Contact the group’s Chair to let them know you want to attend if you are not a member. They may ask you to arrive after the business portion of the meeting.
Hampton Republican Committee Meeting
April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
St Vincent DePaul Community Kitchen
441R Lafayette Road,
Hampton, NH
David Hagen, Chair: dehagen@comcast.net
Park in the Hampton municipal parking lot behind Greg’s Bistro Pizza
Bedford Republican Committee Meeting
April 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Murphy’s Taproom and Carriage House
393 RTE-101, Bedford, NH
Danielle Evansic, Chair: dani14@me.com
Keene Republican Committee Meeting
April 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Doors open at 6:00 PM
Ann Farrington, Chair: keenecityrepublicans@gmail.com
The meeting is on the second floor of the Court House (facing Court Street), but the entrance is located on Winter Street (the address itself is 33 Winter Street). There is a parking lot behind Citizens Bank directly across the street where you are welcome to park. Take the elevator to the second floor. The meeting room is at the end of the hall.