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“The proposed plan would put a garage for 40 cars, an art gallery, art studio, indoor pool, squash court, office and laundry room all below grade. Clearly this plan violates the POCD and should not be approved. If it were approved, imagine what could happen. Developers could buy and merge adjacent lots in small lot zones and use the generous FAR to change the character in a neighborhood and in our town.” – Louisa Stone, former P&Z commission member Continue Reading →
“Today we bid a fond farewell to our old school that served us for nearly 70 years. What a beautiful place it is,” he joked as the adjacent demolition of the old school continued…Many of you or your children attended the old CMS, I’m sure it’s bittersweet to see it removed.” – Building Committee Chair Joe Rossetti Continue Reading →
P&Z chair Margarita Alban said restaurant patrons who are elderly or disabled would not walk 465 ft from the valet station to the front door of the restaurant. Continue Reading →
The commission had concerns about the streetscape. They also asked applicant to have their consultant study traffic patterns, especially with an eye to preventing the development from being used as a cut-through from Neil Lane. Continue Reading →
P&Z asked if the disused loading area and access drive from Brookside Ave could be removed and landscaped. Other focused on on-site vehicle and pedestrian circulation, queuing, parking, and left turns into and out of Dayton Avenue. Continue Reading →
In Hartford Superior Court, a judge has yet to rule on the developer’s lawsuit against the Town’s P&Z commission over the conditions of approval of the 8-30g affordable housing project straddling Mason Street. That doesn’t impact the demolition. Continue Reading →
Commissioner Mary Jenkins said, “The building there now has sky and space and air around it. And frankly with two distinct, contemporary taller buildings, it looks to me like a Tudor sandwich.”
Commenting on the two additional buildings, Arn Welles said, “They seem out of place with the original ones. You’ve got those enormous, I’d call them space windows, they look like spaceships.” Continue Reading →
On Thursday, First Selectman Fred Camillo urged residents with concerns about the proposed demolitions of historic buildings at the intersection of Greenwich Ave and Putnam Ave to contact Todd Levine at SHPO and the office of Connecticut’s Attorney General William Tong. Continue Reading →
“First and foremost is this notion of artificially changing the flood zone. It begs the question, how do you obtain permission to develop a site by simply raising the grade and adding tremendous amounts of fill, just to avoid the requirements of limitations that those various zones have upon a property?” – Steve Walko, attorney representing neighbors and the Indian Harbor Association Continue Reading →
Additional wording that went into the final draft of CT’s housing growth bill last October allows towns to establish mitigation districts where off-street parking can be required for residential developments with 16 or fewer units. Specifically, towns can create two mitigation districts – they can be contiguous – each not exceeding 4% of the town’s parcels. Continue Reading →