Reference Library

Vesting

• 674:39 Five-Year Exemption
• Temporary Extended Vesting - 2009 Chapter 93 (SB 93) and Five-Year Exemption - 2011 Chapter 21 5 (SB 144)
  From "Land Use Law Update"
  Presenters: Attorney Christopher L. Boldt, Donahue, Tucker & Ciandella, PLLC
  Attorney Benjamin D. Frost, New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
  NHMA law lecture #3, Fall 2011
  Every three or four years it's time to put recent developments in land use law in perspective. This lecture provides the latest information on legislation affecting the roles, powers and procedures of land use boards and officials and the important decisions of the courts, including the 2011 legislation on residential sprinklers, lot mergers, shoreland protection and more.
• SB 414 (2004)
  SB 414 reorganizes and amends RSA 674:39 (four-year exemption and vesting of development rights), changes how impact fees are administered, reverses the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Simonsen v. Derry, and explicitly authorizes waiver of subdivision regulations.
• Plan-link question and replies, "Approved subdivision plan,yet to be recorded - Deadline?" posted on 8/6/12.
• Plan-link question and replies, "A question regarding 'grandfathered' applications" posted on 9/7/12.
• Local definitions of "Active and substantial development or building" and "Substantial completion"
  • Bedford
  • Fitzwilliam
  • Goffstown
  • Milford
  • Nashua
  • Raymond
  • Rochester
  • Londonderry

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