Concord
City of Concord, Planning Division (Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment)
In short
City of Concord, Planning Division (Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment) issues 2 permits we publish for Concord, last verified 2026-09-12. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoning Board of Adjustment Application (Variance, Special Exception, Appeal)only if it applies to you | City of Concord, Planning Division (Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment) | $460.00 for an application or appeal on property located partially or completely within the RD, RN, RH, UT, CN, CU, CG, CBP, OCP, CVP, or IS zoning districts; $370.00 for property in all other districts; a further $82.00 where the application requires notice to an abutter located outside Concord's own city boundaries; a Zoning Ordinance rehearing request is $50.00. Per Title I, Chapter 1, Article 1-5, § 1-5-1. | one-time, per application | 2026-09-12 |
| Planning Board Site Plan Review / Conditional Use Permitonly if it applies to you | City of Concord, Planning Division (Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment) | Minor Site Plan Review: $300.00 application fee plus $100.00 for each new or redeveloped dwelling unit and $100.00 for each new or redeveloped 1,000 sq. ft. of non-residential gross floor area. Major Site Plan — Design Review Phase: $300.00; the Major Site Plan itself then carries no separate application fee (or $300.00 if no Design Review Phase occurred), plus $150.00 per dwelling unit or per 1,000 sq. ft. of non-residential floor area. A Conditional Use Permit is $250.00 generally, $750.00 for wireless telecommunications equipment, or a banded $50.00-$300.00 by disturbance area for wetland, buffer, Shoreland Protection District, or floodway encroachments. Every application separately carries a $5.00-per-abutter notification fee for each public hearing notice. | one-time, per application | 2026-09-12 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Zoning Board of Adjustment Application (Variance, Special Exception, Appeal)
Unlike Manchester and Nashua, which each scatter dollar figures through the individual substantive chapter they belong to, Concord's General Code collects nearly every ordinance-based fee citywide into one consolidated fee article (Title I, § 1-5-1). The same figure appears in the Planning Division's ZBA Fees document and in the Chapter 28 line items of the City's FY27 fee ordinance workbook (effective July 1, 2026). Triggered when a proposed use or structure fails to conform to the Zoning Ordinance's use, dimensional, or other requirements.
Planning Board Site Plan Review / Conditional Use Permit
A genuinely separate, older fee schedule from the Zoning Board of Adjustment's own consolidated Title I fee above — the Planning Board reviews site plans, subdivisions, and conditional use permits under this 2013 Subdivision Regulations appendix, which is still the version the City's current Planning Documents & Fees page links live. Triggered by new construction or a significant addition rather than every business opening; a small tenant fit-out inside an existing building typically proceeds under the building permit process recorded above instead. An Inspection Fee for a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy is a separate $300.00 under the same appendix.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Concord
- Phone
- (603) 225-8610
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Concord Subdivision Regulations, Appendix A: Fees (effective April 18, 2013) — Planning Board site plan review, subdivision, conditional use permit, and abutter-notification fee scheduleCity of Concord, Planning Division · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- FY27 Ordinance Based Fees, Fines & Penalties (effective 7/1/2026) — the City's own current master workbook pricing every codified fee by chapter/section, including Food Service Establishment classes, the Food/Peddlers Combo license, Building/Sign/Fire Prevention permits, and the Zoning Board of Adjustment application feeCity of Concord, New Hampshire (Finance Department) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Zoning Board of Adjustment Fee Schedule — Title I, Chapter 1, Article 1-5, § 1-5-1 (Fees), pricing variance/appeal applications at $370.00-$460.00 by zoning district plus abutter-notification and rehearing feesCity of Concord, Planning Division · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
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