NH Business Review
Newly established panel seen as expediting development process
January 13, 2021
New Hampshire’s newly established three-member Housing Appeals Board has begun accepting planning and zoning appeals, ushering in what proponents of the panel see as an important change to help meet the state’s affordable housing shortage.
Created in the last legislative session, the board is modeled on the Board of Tax and Land Appeals. It is as an attempt to settle disputes between developers and municipalities without going to Superior Court. The board, like a court, can overrule or remand a local board’s decision and then either side could appeal the board’s decision, just as in Superior Court, to the state Supreme Court.