e-911 addressing project

The Board of Selectmen is working with the NH Bureau of Emergency Communications to correct nonstandard addressing across town to help public safety agencies easily locate and respond in an emergency.

Some of the addressing concerns to be fixed include:

• incorrect numerical order sequenced addressing (i.e. a #18 access between #10 & #16 or #1051 before #1041)
• incorrect cul-de-sac sequenced addressing
• multiple addressable structures on a parcel without separate numerical building assignments
• multiple separate address numbers assigned to one addressable building (usually condominiums)
• mobile home park addressing
• parcels not numerically addressed from their access roads (i.e. Catamount Rd address with True Rd access)
• segmented roads with impassable sections all with the same road name (Thompson Rd, True Rd, Park St)
• driveway access to 3 or more addressable structures needing a unique private lane designation
• duplicate/similar road naming (Park Terrace/Park Street, Main Street/South Main Street)
• road name changes at town line, not consistent with initial access name (Wild Goose Pond Road)
• non-sequential numbering on roads that continue through several municipalities (Upper City Road)

Further explanation of the need for renaming (and renumbering) segments of Park Street, Thompson Road, and True Road:
These roadways have sections that are unpassable, whether by nature or town adopted layout. These unpassable sections create road segments (currently with the same name) that need to be accessed from different access roads, some of which are a significant distance from one entrance point to another. Each of the segments should have their own name, distinct from the other, to avoid confusion during emergency communications.

One of the road segments retained the current name which which was determined at a Board of Selectmen meeting after the batch 1 public hearing. Some of the road segments that retained the current name (Park Street) were renumbered, still resulting in an address change. 

The roads renamed were Park Street (now has a Cobbler Lane segment which is the segment that starts at Carroll Street), Park Terrace (was renamed to Brooks Terrace), Thompson Road (now has 6 segments Strickland Road, Bachelder Farm Road, Windy Way, White Ox Road, Thompson Road, and Shady Drive), & True Road (has a new Keeley Lane segment, the section that starts at Tilton Hill Road).

Steps in the nonstandard addressing project:
There will be several steps to this e-911 addressing correction project that will take place over the course of quite a few months.
First meeting - the Board of Selectmen held an informational meeting with a NH-911 representative at their Tuesday, September 24, 2024, regular 6pm meeting (held in the PMHS lecture hall at 23 Oneida Street) to discuss the need for the changes.
Since this meeting, a few addresses have been changed by voluntary re-addressing agreements (thank you!) to avoid the public hearing process to be changed. The project has been organized into stages to tackle the nonstandard address types in batches at separate public hearings.

Batch 1 public hearing - the Board held a public hearing on Tuesday, January 28th, at 6:15pm at the town hall to consider the first batch of changes - Park Street, Park Terrace, True Road, Thompson Road, and Wild Goose Pond Road. The official changes from this public hearing were put in to effect the spring of 2025.

Batch 2 public hearing - the Board will be holding a public hearing on Tuesday, June 3rd, at 6:15pm at the town hall consider the second batch of changes - 3 properties to readdress to the streets they are accessed from; 7 private lanes for 3 categories of the 62 & 65 Leavitt Road mobile home parks, 3+ properties sharing driveways, and a long, shared driveway; and renumbering of the 175 Leavitt Road mobile homes as they are separate structures with their own road frontage. 

If you would like to submit suggestions for the private lane names to the Selectmen for their consideration, you can email Cara Marston at [email protected] prior to the public hearings so that they can be vetted by the folks at NH-911.

Property owners who have received letters or own parcels on these mentioned roads are strongly encouraged to email Cara Marston to be placed on a email notification list and to receive any further address-specific details that may be available beyond the letters that were mailed.

Official changes to addresses will be mailed to the affected property owners after the public hearing date. 
We will be working with the Bureau of Emergency Communications throughout the process and will notify the USPS as addresses are changed. 

This page will be updated as we work through the process and as new information becomes available, please email Cara Marston with questions on this project.