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Building Size Limits

• Big Box Tool Kit - Where To Start: How To Stop A Big Box
  by Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Dec 23, 2011
• Examples of local regulations
  • Conway limits comm bldgs to 5,000 SF within its Special Highway Corridor Overlay District (147.13.19.18 BUILDING SIZE) of the Zoning Ordinance .
  • Hollis limits commercial building size to 12,000 s.f. in its "downtown" Agricultural and Business District .
  • Hopkinton approved a limitation of 40,000 sf in its Industrial Zone, and 20,000 sf in the Village Industrial Zone in 2005. See the table of dimensional requirements .
  • Londonderry’s Performance Overlay District limits the size of large scale commercial developmnet in section 2.6.1.7.2 Commercial Building Size Standards .
  • Stratham has a limit of 80,000 SF in their General Commercial and Commercial/Light Industrial Office districts (See Article IV, Section 4.2 Table of Dimensional Requirements in the Stratham Zoning Ordinance March 2004 Edition.) 
  • Walpole has a limit of 40,000 SF in their Commercial District (Article VI ) of the Zoning Ordinance.
  • Warner has a maximum gross floor area for Retail and Service buildings of 40,000 s.f. in Article XI COMMERCIAL DISTRICT .
  • Windham has a commercial building size limit of 10,000 square feet in their Village Center Zoning District .
• "Meeting the Big Box Challenge - Planning Design, and Regulatory Strategies," Planner’s Advisory Service Report #537, APA Planners Book Service

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