Proposed Zoning Amendment – Formula Business

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:

  1. menus 
  2. ingredients and food preparation
  3. interior or exterior design
  4. uniforms
  5. 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: 

  1. array of services or merchandise
  2. interior or exterior design 
  3. uniforms 
  4. logos

that are substantially the same as 15 or more such establishments, regardless of ownership or location. 

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2 thoughts on “Proposed Zoning Amendment – Formula Business

  1. Michael Grogan's avatar
    Michael Grogan 10/23/2024 at 10:50 AM Reply

    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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    • France Menk's avatar
      France Menk 01/24/2025 at 2:10 PM Reply

      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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