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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 →
Margarita Alban will be the featured speaker at the Greenwich Retired Men’s Association on June 10. Her talk is titled, “The Greenwich Impact of the New Connecticut Zoning Law.” Continue Reading →
The GCDS Schwarz Campus is 41.5 acres in the RA-1 zone and the school does not receive any FAR bonus for educational use. The Schwarz Campus at 23 Fairfield Road was originally part of the F.A.O. Schwarz estate, which goes all the way to Cardinal Road. Even if the school added the requested units, they would still have remaining FAR, but the discussion revolved around the proposed multi-family apartment building in the RA-1 single family zone. Continue Reading →
“It’s a very large space and you’re saying you’re going to have small classes. We have had not positive experience with that – where people have filled the space to overflowing, creating parking problems. When you have the space, human nature fills it.” – Margarita Alban, Greenwich P&Z chair Continue Reading →
Neighbors are concerned about blasting and trucks coming and going on their narrow dead end. They worry limited on street parking will be gobbled up by guests to the 8-30g. Also they said it’s dangerous to turn left onto Davis out of Home Place because of sight lines and asked if the entrance to the development could be on Davis instead. Continue Reading →