Subdivision

Subdivision

• The Planning Board in New Hampshire - A Handbook for Local Officials
• RSA 674:41 Regulation of Subdivision of Land

Lot Line Adjustments

• Adjusting Your View of Lot Line Adjustments, New Hampshire Town and City, June 2004
• April 2013 Plan-Link posting and replies regarding a lot line adjustment revocation

Minimum Road Access Requirements (RSA 674:41)

• (also see the subject heading Class VI Roads on the Transportation page)
• Minimum Road Access Requirements - From Chapter 7 of A Hard Road to Travel: New Hampshire Law of Local Highways, Streets and Trails, LGC 2004
• RSA 674:41 - 'State Zoning' - From Chapter III-a of Preemption of Local Regulation: Ejected from Your Own Game! NHMA Law Lecture #2, by Attorney Matthew R. Serge, Upton & Hatfield, LLP and Attorney C. Christine Fillmore, Fall 2011
• RSA 674:41 Erection of Buildings on Streets; Appeals.
• See the results of the Municipal Land Use Regulation Annual Survey for municipalities with Access Management regulations.

Subdivision Regulations

• Subdivision and Site Plan Review Handbook - Southwest Region Planning Commission
• [Plan-link] Combined Site Review and Subdivision Regulations pdf file- Plan-link discussion thread, February 2015
• Emile Bussiere v. A. Roland Roberge & a., 142 NH 905 (1998)
  • A planning board may adopt a more restrictive definition of "subdivision" than provided in RSA 672:14.
    "Where 'subdivision' is defined by regulation more restrictively or narrowly than it is by statute, the regulation's definition governs. "Cities and towns have only such powers as the State grants them… We have held that a town, in exercising its powers to regulate, may not expand upon the legislative definition of 'subdivision'. Certainly a town may, [however,] through adoption of an ordinance, choose to exercise less power than that granted by the State legislature."Dearborn v. Town of Milford, 120 NH 82, 84, 411 A.2d 1132, 1133--34 (1980) (citations omitted). We therefore reject the defendants' contention that the trial court impermissibly effected a subdivision of the property as defined by the subdivision regulation."
  • (Also see the subject heading Condominiums on the Housing page.)
• See the results of the Municipal Land Use Regulation Annual Survey for municipalities with Subdivision Regulations.

Village Plan Alternative Subdivision

• RSA 674:21,VI
• See the results of the Municipal Land Use Regulation Annual Survey for municipalities with Village Plan Alternative Subdivision Regulations.