Hillsboro

[local energy]

anyone moving to NH ----- you be careful about choosing a high tax town or a low tax town---- tax rates go from about 8$ per thousand to as high as about 48per thousand................   you choose to pay high or low taxes -------- Emerald lake is a man made lake that was created as a real estate venture to sell off lots ---- if my memory serves me correctly ----

[Pat McCotter]

Emerald Lake Village District is constructed around Gould Pond. There is not a body of water called "Emerald Lake" near there.

A village district is a town subdivision defined by RSA 52.

[KBCraig]

I notice it says residential, does that equal buildable?

Unfortunately, no. Estelle's case was pointed out, and her lot was zoned residential.

Zoning covers the range of permissible activity that may legally be performed there. It doesn't mean the site will actually support such activity. The soil might not pass a septic perc test. The slope might be too steep. There might not be access, or easements for driveway and utilities.

All of which makes me even madder, the longer I go on listing the "permissions" required from the government. 

Kevin

[Caleb]

The slope might be too steep.

Then again, a steep slope fits my purposes wonderfully.  Amazing what you can do if your willing to build into the ground instead of on top of it.

[KBCraig]

The slope might be too steep.

Then again, a steep slope fits my purposes wonderfully.  Amazing what you can do if your willing to build into the ground instead of on top of it.

Oh, I agree. But the building codes sometimes don't, and there is a maximum slop for residential construction. Commercial construction is even more restrictive.

[Heyduke]

Using the historic USGS maps digitized by UNH and available online; Google Earth; NNEREN and Masiello's website, I can say with 90+% confidence that there isn't a single property on Raven Head in Hillsboro that could have a test pit pass state requirements for percolation.  Did I also mention that I formerly held certifications in wetland and soil science? 

http://docs.unh.edu/NH/hill29ne.jpg

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3%20RavenHead%20Lane%20Hillsboro%20NH%2003244

www.nneren.com

www.masiello.com

2 things that NH has in abundance are:  wetlands and bedrock

and no--no slope in this Emerald Lake Village District

[Lloyd Danforth]

I lived for a while on Mt Desert Island in Maine. Many homes there had what appeared to be holding tanks that I believed were pumped empty on a regular basis.
I would think that on a piece of property that couldn't handle a drainage field you could have a regular septic tank with two chambers and have the second chamber pumped out on a regular basis.  You could combine this with a composting toilet and dry wells for the sinks and showers.

[dpagan]

Sounds like a lot more to worry about; I'm just going to look at different land.

[Lex]

Sounds like a lot more to worry about; I'm just going to look at different land.

I'd say 'worry' is just one of the factors in building on unbuildable land 

[Russell Kanning]

I knew an architect that built a crazy looking house clinging to the side of Old Topanga Canyon in SoCal. I bet nobody thought that that land was "buildable".

If you don't have to be near any cities, you might find even better things farther into the hinterlands. You could be neighbors with Lex.

[Heyduke]

I knew an architect that built a crazy looking house clinging to the side of Old Topanga Canyon in SoCal. I bet nobody thought that that land was "buildable".

If you don't have to be near any cities, you might find even better things farther into the hinterlands. You could be neighbors with Lex.

how about buying an island?

268  Goffstown Back Road
Goffstown, NH
$ 99,000
MLS #231089

[dpagan]

I would go into the hinterlands but I'm used to living near people and require high speed internet and that verizon fios going in up there looks neat.

I knew an architect that built a crazy looking house clinging to the side of Old Topanga Canyon in SoCal. I bet nobody thought that that land was "buildable".

If you don't have to be near any cities, you might find even better things farther into the hinterlands. You could be neighbors with Lex.

[Lex]

I would go into the hinterlands but I'm used to living near people and require high speed internet and that verizon fios going in up there looks neat.

There will be wireless high speed internet in certain areas of Grafton soon enough ($50-$100 a month). And if you have the money now you can get a T1, several people in Grafton have that.

[Heyduke]

I would go into the hinterlands but I'm used to living near people and require high speed internet and that verizon fios going in up there looks neat.

There will be wireless high speed internet in certain areas of Grafton soon enough ($50-$100 a month). And if you have the money now you can get a T1, several people in Grafton have that.

and a brand new shootin' complex too!

[Lex]

I would go into the hinterlands but I'm used to living near people and require high speed internet and that verizon fios going in up there looks neat.

There will be wireless high speed internet in certain areas of Grafton soon enough ($50-$100 a month). And if you have the money now you can get a T1, several people in Grafton have that.

and a brand new shootin' complex too!

Already have that, it's called the great outdoors!