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Campers as Dwellings

• Plan-link posting (12/6/05) "Campers as dwellings. This issue rose when a retired couple who travel in their camper rented out their house and headed south, then came back in the warm weather to live on the same house lot in the camper, which had it’s own well water but no connection to septic (septic was dumped into the existing house septic). Since the house and camper were two dwellings on the same lot, the ZBA denied the appeal of an administrative decision and the variance. The planning board would like to be able to allow a camper to be inhabited on its own separate lot as long as it is connected to water and septic. It would also like to be able to allow the situation described above, but with a permit from the building inspector, and connected to water and its own septic, and for a temporary (defined as 60 days currently) period of time. Is any of this advisable? How have other communities addressed this?" with responses from:
  
  
  • Bedford
  • Belmont
  • Bow
  • Holderness