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Neat-Beautiful-5505 t1_j7cb304 wrote

Legally, town land use regs need to be rooted in public health and public safety to be defensible. Making your comments tied to one or both of those helps your argument. Before the meeting be familiar with the area, where is north, street names, and map/lot numbers; often residents don’t know their neighborhood by these details and that hurts your ability to follow along. Address all comments to the chair and not applicant, including your questions. Be familiar with the five conditions to approve a variance in NH (RSA 674:33). If it seems like the decision might not go your way, consider proposing conditions to mitigate your concerns as best possible. NHmunicipal.org writes good layperson blogs on this type of issue. Good luck

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movdqa t1_j7crcvu wrote

This is a good point. In many cases, the contractor will employ an architect to do the presentation and they will have everything on a laptop connected to the projector with diagrams of what they want to do. They should also make handouts available to the board making the decision. Sometimes what they present may address your concerns and sometimes they aren't aware of your concerns. But it's worthwhile knowing things like property boundaries.

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