Notice of Public Hearing on November 17, 2026
Notice of Public Hearing on November 17, 2026, for Planning Board Site Plan Regulation Revisions
A public hearing will be held by the Planning Board at the Town Hall at 75 West Main St, Bradford, NH on the 17th day of November 2026, at 7:00 PM on the adoption of various revisions to the Bradford Planning Board’s Site Plan Regulations. The effect of the proposed revisions, as prepared by the Planning Board, would be to revise the Planning Board’s Site Plan Regulations in the following manner:
Add a new Section VI.M for Add for Industrial, Manufacturing, or Similar Uses addressing the following standards:
Electric Utility Impacts
Air and Water Quality Standards
Soundproofing Standards
Add a new definition for Large Water User
Copies of the proposed revisions are available for review at Bradford Town Hall, 75 West Main St, Bradford, NH, during normal business hours: 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday through Thursday; and, 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM on Fridays. Material is also available online https://bradfordnh.gov/. Phone (603) 938-5900.
Per Order of Bradford Planning Board Chair
ITEMS TO BE ADDED TO THE SITE PLAN REGULATIONS AS A NEW SECTION:
VI.M ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR INDUSTRIAL, MANUFACTURING, OR SIMILAR USES
A. Electric Utility Impacts: All site plan applications shall include a letter from the public utility company indicating the ability to provide electricity. No proposal shall increase the loading on the electrical grid in a way that requires increased ratepayer fees or costs to the Town of Bradford to accommodate the development. If any utility infrastructure expansion is required, all costs shall be borne solely by the applicant.
B. Air and Water Quality Standards:
1. Large water users shall recycle and reuse eighty percent (80%) of water used for industrial cooling processes;
2. Large water users shall demonstrate, through the appropriate engineering analysis, that their proposed water usage will not adversely impair existing wells, public water supplies, wetlands, open water, or ground water resources;
3. No use shall discharge waste product/smoke/emissions to the air in quantities that require State or Federal permitting; and,
4. Shall not permit or allow the discharge of any water used for any industrial processes into any water body, wetland, stratified drift aquifer, or natural area.
C. Sound Proofing Standards:
No land use shall produce, within 24 hours, a sustained, uninterrupted noise of 70 db(A) or greater for five or more uninterrupted hours at any property line. This requirement shall not be construed to prohibit activities normally associated with residential land uses, such as but not limited to vacuum cleaners, lawn mowing, tree and brush clearing, snow blowing, plowing, or automobile use.
Soundproofing shall be addressed as follows:
a. A sound study shall be provided as the Site Plan Application process;
b. Acoustic barriers shall be employed to ensure the soundproofing standards of this Section; and,
c. Approved site plans that fail to adhere to this requirement are subject to revocation of site plan approval in accordance with NH RSA 676:4-a.
ADD THE FOLLOWING AS A NEW DEFINITION TO THE SITE PLAN REGULATIONS
Large Water User: Any land use that requires either an NHDES Water
Withdrawal Permit or will withdraw 20,000 gallons a day or more for industrial, manufacturing, or commercial uses.