The Walpolean

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.