Manchester BOH Proposal to Oversee Construction Projects

At the last Planning Board meeting, the Manchester-by-the-Sea Board of Health shared a draft proposal that requires new construction projects to have a BOH permit, a hydrological engineering analysis, a certificate of compliance, and an operations permit in areas beyond the Water Resources Overlay District.

This regulation would be triggered by development close to “potential future” sources of water that disturb or remove more than 250 yards of material or add 2500+ square feet of impervious surfaces.

How the Board of Health’s permit process would be reconciled by the process managed by the Planning Board and ZBA was not clarified. It is also unclear how to determine whether an area is a “potential future” source of potable water. Updates will be posted on the NSR Blog.