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In the motion to deny Berkley Insurance Co’s large office building, Greenwich P&Z noted that 1976 zoning restrictions put the brakes on large scale office development and encouraged residential uses wherever possible to create more housing opportunities. Berkley already has their global HQ at 475 Steamboat. The new office building would have been an adjacent satellite on the parcels home to the former CT Iron Works, a two family house and two older office buildings. Continue Reading →
“If you’re successful, there may be a lot of stress in these areas. You may find that you are parking deficient and you may find that you have brought in a lot of traffic…What troubled me the most about this process is everything is based on your operating assumptions.” – Margarita Alban, P&Z chair Continue Reading →
After word of the proposal spread to public schools families in Greenwich, there was a strong response on social media. Continue Reading →
“I want to thank everyone on the building committee for all their stellar work for the town. Without these people, we wouldn’t be here today. This team worked tirelessly. They met 119 times at the school at 7:00am over the past 30 months and 10 days. And we didn’t pay them a dime.” – James Waters, Old Greenwich School building committee chair Continue Reading →
On Wednesday a newly formed rink task force held its first meeting and elected its officers, including Matt DesChamps as chair. Continue Reading →
The P&Z commissioners again took issue with “moving non-conformities” from property to property. Neighbors said based on noise from mechanicals at the existing Berkley building at 475 Steamboat Rd, they were fearful about noise from the proposed office building. That said, the current noise does not violate the town noise ordinance. There was discussion about possibly revising the noise ordinance. Continue Reading →
Modifications include no commercial uses, except those pre-existing at 405 Greenwich Avenue. Also, below market condos must be sized at 90% of market rate condos. Continue Reading →
On Tuesday the Planning & Zoning commission approved Municipal Improvement status for DPW’s proposed new Hamill Rink in Eugene Morlot Park in Byram. The vote was 4-1. Continue Reading →
“Here’s the worst case. So, we turn this down and DPW decides maybe we need a four lane highway here and maybe it ends up looking like Route 1.” – P&Z commissioner Arn Welles Continue Reading →
“Perfect solutions are few and far between. At the end of the day, the need for housing may supersede almost everything else. We can work with developers to create housing that is sensible and compliant with our regulation and the POCD guiding principles. Or, we can pay lip service, do nothing, and wait for exogenous forces to impose unwanted changes to our town.” – P&Z commissioner Peter Lowe Continue Reading →