PROPOSED ZONING AMENDMENT
ABOUT FORMULA BUSINESS IN WALPOLE VILLAGE DISTRICT
Town of Walpole New Hampshire Zoning Ordinances
Article VI
Commercial District Section C (All other Sections will move down. C becomes D, etc.)
C. Excluded Uses
1. To preserve the unique and distinctive appeal of the Walpole Village character and commercial development, formula restaurants and formula retail businesses are excluded uses in section 6 of Boundaries of Commercial District (currently Article VI, Part E (becomes F), Section 6).
A formula restaurant shall include a restaurant regulated by contractual or other arrangement to offer any two or more of the following standardized features:
- menus
- ingredients and food preparation
- interior or exterior design
- uniforms
- logos
that are substantially the same as 15 or more such establishments, regardless of ownership or location.
A formula retail business shall include a type of retail sales activity which is regulated by contractual or other arrangement to offer any two of the following standardized features:
- array of services or merchandise
- interior or exterior design
- uniforms
- logos
that are substantially the same as 15 or more such establishments, regardless of ownership or location.
Tagged: walpole village district, ZONING BOARD, zoning board amendment
Burdocks cafe and chocolate shop would have to go. The gas station would have to go. Edward’s Investments should have to go. The potential to miss out on something great at some point in the future would be great.
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Yes, this is an attempt to legislate aesthetics. Putting aside a philosophical discussion for the moment, the writing lacks clarity. Let’s hope it will be rewritten without jargon, and with specificity.
Should we legislate speech? Take that rhetorically…or not.
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