Stephen E. Forster d/b/a Forster's Christmas Tree Farm & Gift Shoppe v. Town of Henniker

It is abundantly clear that none of my four colleagues have spent a summer in East Colebrook, an area where weddings on farms are customary. Today, the majority holds that the trial court properly determined that hosting weddings and like events is not a permitted use in Henniker’s rural residential district. The majority offers two separate and independent rationales for its decision: first, that both the plain language and legislative history of RSA 21:34-a (2012) fail to demonstrate a legislative intent to include “agritourism” in the statutory definition of “agriculture”; and second, that…