Reference Library - Alphabetical Subject Listing

A

• Abstaining
• Access Management
• Accessibility/ADA
• Accessory Dwelling Units
• Active Communities, Planning and Design of
• "Active and substantial development or building"
• "Administrative Gloss"
• "Administrative Official" (also see "Public Officials")
• Adjudicative Decisions
• Adult Businesses
• Adverse Possession
• Aesthetics
• Affordable Housing
• Agricultural Zoning
• Alternate Board Members
• Alteration of Terrain Permit
• Aquifer Protection
• Architectural Design Regulations

B

• Backlots
• Ballots
• Barn Preservation
• Bear Ordinance
• Beekeeping
• Biosolids/Sludge
• Blasting
• Boundary Lines
• Brownfields
• Buffers (also see Wetlands)
• Building Codes
• Building Size Limits

C

• Campers as Dwellings
• Calendars of Important Dates
• Capital Improvement Program
• Cell Tower Information
• City/Town Officials Directory
• Class VI Roads
• Climate Change (also see Energy Efficient Development)
• Cluster Regulations/Ordinances (also see Open Space)
• Coastal Zone Management
• Communities & Consequences
• Community Development Block Grants
• Community Profiles
• Community Surveys
• Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act
• Conditions, Variances
• Conditional Use Permits
• Condominiums
• Conflicts of Interest (also see "Ex-parte" Contacts)
• Conservation Commissions
• Conservation Funding
• Conservation Easements
• Conservation Subdivisions
• Consultants
• Cost of Community Services Studies (also see Fiscal Impact Of Residential Development)
• Court Decisions
• Covenants
• Cul-de-sacs
• "Current Use"

D

• Day Care
• Deceased Animals, disposal
• Decisions
• Definitions, Zoning
• Demographics
• Demolition Review Ordinances
• Developments of Regional Impact
• Dish Antennae
• Disqualification
• Dog Kennels
• Driveway Regulations

E

• Elected Land Use Boards
• Elderly Housing
• E-mail Communication Between Board Members
• Energy Auditors
• Energy Codes
• Energy Committees (also see Climate Change)
• Energy Efficiency Best Practices Workbook for Local Governments
• Energy Efficient Development (also see Climate Change)
• Enforcement
• Engine Brake Noise (a.k.a. "Jake Brakes")
• Environmental Assistance
• Environmental Permitting
• Equitable Waiver of Dimensional Requirement
• Erosion & Sediment Control (also see Steep Slope Protection)
• Ethics
• Excavation
• "Ex-parte" Contacts (also see Conflicts of Interest)

F

• "Fair Share" analysis
• Farmland Preservation
• Fee Schedules
• Fences
• Findings of Facts
• Filing Amended Plans, Regulations and Ordinances
• Fire Code, State
• Fiscal Impact Of Residential Development (also see Cost of Community Services Studies)
• "Flag Lots"
• Flexible Zoning
• Floodplain (FEMA/NFIP)
• Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Project
• Forestry (also see Timber Harvesting)
• Forests, Town
• Forested Floodplains
• Form Based Zoning
• Formula Business Regulation
• Four Year Exemption (RSA 674:39)
• Fourth order streams or higher

G

• Geographic Center of NH
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Governmental Immunity from Local Regulations
• Gravel Pits
• Green Buildings
• Green Infrastructure
• Greenways
• Groundwater Protection
• Growth Management

H

• Health Ordinances
• Highway Noise
• Historic Preservation
• Home Energy Auditors
• Home Inspectors
• Home Occupations
• Housing (also see Elderly Housing)

I

• Impact Fees
• Important Dates for Municipal Officials
• Industry
• Innovative Land Use Planning
• Invasive Plant Species
• Involuntary Merger

J

• "Jake Brakes"
• Joint Meetings and Hearings
• Junkyards

K

• Kennels (dog)

L

• Lakes and Ponds
• Land & Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP)
• Landscaping
• Land and water areas of towns, cities and unincorporated places
• Land Use
• Land Use and Transportation Planning
• Land Use Board Procedures
• Legal Questions and Answers
• Legislative Updates
• Local Energy Committees
• Local Government Environmental Assistance Network
• Lot Line Adjustments
• Lot Regulations/Lot Shape
• Low Impact Development (LID)

M

• Manufactured Housing
• Master Plan
• Meetings
• Merger, Voluntary
• Merger, Involuntary
• Minimum Road Access Requirements (RSA 674:41)
• Mountain District Regulations
• Municipal Records, retention schedules
• Municipal Information
• Municipal Land Use Regulations Database Reports
• Municipal Web site Addresses

N

• Neighborhood Heritage Districts
• New Urbanism
• Noise Control
• Noise, Highway
• Nonconforming Uses
• Nonpoint Source Pollution

O

• Official Ballot Law (RSA 40:13) ("SB2")
• Off-Highway Recreational Vehicles (OHRV’s)
• Open Space (also see Cluster Regulations/Ordinances)
• Outdoor Advertising Control (NH DOT)
• Outdoor Lighting

P

• "Paper Streets"
• Parking
• Performance Zoning/Flexible Zoning
• Personal Wireless Service Facilities
• Pet Cemeteries
• Phasing (Phased Development)
• Planned Unit Development
• Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community (PAS Memo, September 2003)
• Planning Board
• Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles
• Police Power Ordinances
• Population (Estimates/Projections)
• Pre-emption and Governmental Immunity
• Preliminary Review
• Property Rights
• Property Tax Data (State Data Center)
• "Public Officials" (also see "Administrative Official")
• Public Waters

Q

R

• Reckoning
• Recycling
• Regional Impact, Developments of
• Regional Planning Commissions
• Renewable Energy Technical Assistance (US Dept. of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy)
• Renewable Portfolio Standards
• Resource Clearinghouse for Rapidly Growing Communities
• Restaurant Inspection
• Retail Development
• RFP (Requests For Proposals) Examples
• Ridgeline Regulations (also see Viewsheds)
• "Right to Know Law" (RSA 91-A)
• Roads (also see Class VI Roads)
• Roundabouts
• Rules of Procedure
• Rural Character
• Rural Preservation

S

• Satellite/Communication Towers
• Satellite (Parabolic Dish) Antennae
• "SB2" (Official Ballot Law) (RSA 40:13)
• "scattered and premature"
• Scenic Roads (RSA 231:157)
• Separation Requirements
• Septic System Approvals, State
• Shopping Centers
• Shoreland Protection
• Signs
• Simplex v. Newington
• Site Plan Review Regulations
• Site Specific Permit
• Site Visits/Site Walks
• Sludge/Biosolids
• Smart Growth/Sprawl
• Soil Mapping/Lot Sizing
• Solar Skyspace Easements
• Special Event Ordinance
• Special Exceptions
• Special Use Permits
• Spot Zoning
• Sprawl/Smart Growth
• Staff, Finances
• State Fire Code
• State Subdivision Regulations
• State Water Plan Process
• Steep Slope Protection (also see Erosion & Sediment Control)
• Stone Walls
• Storage Containers/Storage Trailers
• Stormwater
• Street Naming
• Stump Dumps
• Subdivision Regulations
• Sustainable Community Development Code

T

• Taxes (Property)
• Tax Maps
• Tax Increment Financing
• Temporary Event Ordinances
• Telecommunication
• Timber Harvesting (also see Forestry)
• Towers
• Town Forests
• Traffic Calming
• Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)

U

• Unicorporated Places

V

• Variances
• Variance Conditions
• Vending Machines
• Vesting
• Viewsheds (also see Ridgeline Regulations)
• Village Districts
• Village Plan Alternative Subdivision
• Voluntary Design Guidelines
• Voluntary Merger
• Voting

W

• Warrant Articles - Town Meeting
• Water Resources
• Waterfront Zoning
• Watersheds
• Web Site Addresses for NH municipalities
• Wetlands (also see Buffers)
• Wind Turbines/Wind Resources
• Wireless Communication Information
• Workforce Housing

X

Y

• Yard Sales

Z

• Zero Net Energy Homes
• Zoning Amendment Calendars
• Zoning Board of Adjustment
• Zoning Definitions
• Zoning Ordinances