Planning board to review concepts for 2 developments at the Weirs

LACONIA — Members of the city’s Planning Board will hear two conceptual presentations regarding housing development during their meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3, at City Hall downtown. 

The first conceptual presentation the board is scheduled to review, according to the meeting agenda, is for a potential 24-unit condominium structure at 5 Hilliard Road, at the Weirs. 

The proposed project, called Water View Properties according to the design conceptual review form received by the city on Jan. 28, lists Michael Bousaleh as the project’s applicant.

The lot is just under half an acre in size, and is located within the commercial resort zoning district, according to the application. The proposed site would be 6,900 square feet. 

Their application notes they intend to: demolish and existing building located there; construct a new five-story building with space for 24 condominium units which would include an elevator; create parking in the rear for 26 vehicles; access to the property would be by way of Hilliard; and the new building would “add affordable housing to the area.”

In other business, planning board members will review a conceptual presentation for the construction of a 40-unit residential development at 59 Doe Ave., also at the Weirs.

Applicant New England Family Housing, on behalf of owner Keith O’Leary of Gilford, submitted a design conceptual review form on Jan. 27, according to paperwork attached to the meeting agenda.

The proposed project name is 59 Doe Residences, located in the city’s commercial residential zoning district within the performance zoning overlay, on a 2.9-acre lot. The buildings would be 9,800 square feet each.

And members of the planning board will hear a proposed amendment to a site plan to increase the size and capacity of a stormwater retention pond located at 604 Endicott St. N., again at the Weirs.

The application, signed Oct. 15, is for the construction of a 2,700-square-foot metal building on a 1-acre parcel within the commercial resort zoning district. The project name is Tiki Plaza.

The proposed building would be located behind an existing rental building, and would be used by a landscape company for storage.

According to a stormwater management analysis report completed by Brown Engineering of Ashland, engineers reached the conclusion the proposed site development would not create any adverse effects downstream in storm water flow rates or quality.

“The type of stormwater basin implemented in the site design is a filtration basin. The filtration basin has been sized for the 25-year storm event and can handle a 50-year storm event without overtopping. In order to account for the slow percolation rate of the parent material, the bond has been enlarged to increase the surface area, ultimately increasing the infiltration abilities of the pond,” a summary of the report reads. “The proposed pond will treat the stormwater runoff and is effective in phosphorous and nitrogen load reductions. The pond will also act as a detention basin which is instrumental in the balancing of flow rates between the existing conditions and the proposed conditions.”