Merrimack agendas: 192-unit outlet housing rehearing, Spartan Way parking waiver — no decisions yet on record
Merrimack's Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Board both had meetings in the past two weeks, but the records supplied for those meetings are agendas only. No minutes have been published, so no decisions, votes, or outcomes are established. What the agendas do show is a set of scheduled hearings on housing density, commercial uses, and a temporary parking lot on a ball field.
Zoning Board: rehearing on 192 units at the Premium Outlets
The Zoning Board of Adjustment was scheduled to hold a public hearing on five variance requests at its September 30, 2026 meeting. The first was a rehearing of a variance for up to 192 multi-family housing units at 80-1 Premium Outlets Boulevard (Tax Map 3C Lot 191-1), at the Merrimack Premium Outlets. The agenda does not state the outcome of the earlier proceeding or the reason for the rehearing.
Other Zoning Board requests
The remaining four items on the same agenda were:
- A variance to allow 6 additional multi-family units, for a total of 12, at 23 McElwain Street (Tax Map 5D-4 Lot 15).
- A variance for a detached garage 12 ft from the side property line, where 15 ft is required, at 3 Mayflower Road (Tax Map 5C Lot 40).
- A variance for used and new auto sales in the I-1 District at 54 DW Highway (Tax Map 2D Lot 29).
- A variance for machinery, transportation equipment sales, service and repair in the C-2 District at 734 DW Highway (Tax Map 7E Lot 31).
The agenda also listed discussion of other concerns and approval of minutes from a prior meeting.
Zoning Board non-meeting with legal counsel
A separate September 30, 2026 entry for the same board is procedural: a non-meeting with legal counsel at 6:00 p.m. in the Community Development Conference Room. The agenda lists no decisions or discussion items.
Planning Board: temporary gravel parking lot at 1 Spartan Way
The Planning Board was scheduled to meet Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. in the Matthew Thornton Room at Town Hall, 8 Baboosic Lake Road. The main item was a public hearing on a request from Jack Rooney and FMR Merrimack Realty Trust FID to accept and consider a waiver of full site plan review to build a temporary gravel parking lot over the grass outfield of an existing ball field at 1 Spartan Way and 2 Contra Way (Case # PB 2026-24).
According to the agenda, the parcels lie in the I-2 (Industrial), R-4 (Residential) and Aquifer Conservation Districts and the Wellhead Protection Area; Tax Map 2C Lot 113 and Map 3C Lot 191.
The board also planned to discuss Master Plan Steering Committee membership and Heritage Commission membership, and to vote on minutes from September 15, 2026. The agenda notes that if the meeting is cancelled, the items move to October 20, 2026.
What the records do not show
None of the three records includes minutes, so whether any item was approved, denied, continued, or withdrawn is not established here. The absence of a published outcome is not evidence that no action was taken.
Coming up
No upcoming meetings in the next 14 days were listed in the records supplied. Residents who want to follow the Zoning Board and Planning Board items above should check the town's posted agendas and minutes directly.