Manchester aldermen heard positive feedback Monday during a nearly one-hour public hearing on the city’s zoning ordinance update.

This would be the fourth zoning ordinance in the city’s history, with the prior ordinances adopted in 1927, 1965 and 2001.

The proposed ordinance is the product of more than three years of work by city staff and the participation of more than a thousand residents of the city.

A first draft was published in June 2024, followed by months of public engagement and comment. Staff worked with a steering committee of residents to write a second draft, which was published in August, followed by a two-month period of public comment.

“Tonight's public hearing is the culmination of a multiyear public process that really began in 2019 with the start of the writing of th

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