This summer, I put in 105 days of continuous “civic service”
to report discrepancies, inaccuracies, and missing documents
in a local subdivision application.
As fall approached, I took a couple of days of vacation,
purchased a new supply of #2 lead and 8.5” x 11” note pads.
I’m back in the fray for the final count down.
November 18, 2011 is the date to watch.
Public Hearing ends. Deliberation begins.
The public hearing on the proposed Cherenzia development on Greenhaven and Mary Hall roads ended just after mid-night on September 14. Ten hours of public comment on September 12 and September 14 preceeded the fall of the gavel to close the public comment period.
The public hearing on the proposed Cherenzia development on Greenhaven and Mary Hall roads ended just after mid-night on September 14. Ten hours of public comment on September 12 and September 14 preceeded the fall of the gavel to close the public comment period.
Both meetings were long and contentious. Attorney Mark Kepple, formally represented only a small group of Loop neighbors. Informally, however, he gave great weight to the opposition voices of many.
More then 150 people attended the public hearing on Monday. Seventy-five hardy souls returned for the meeting on Wednesday. By the end of the public comment period, the signature count on petitions opposing the development reached 740. Visitors to the lovetheloop website between June 15 and September 14 exceeded 2,600.
The decision to issue Cherenzia a special use permit to build 68-units of attached housing is in the hands of five Planning and Zoning Commissioners. These men must decide within sixty-five days, a time period established under Connecticut State statutes. A commission decision will be made by November 18, 2011.
At the regular Planning and Zoning Commission meeting held September 19, the commissioners made several decisions about the Cherenzia discussion and decision process.
1. Commissioners sitting to decide the matter will be: Ben Tamsky, John Prue, Robert Marseglia, Curtis Lynch and A. Gardner Young.
2. Discussions about issuing or denying the special use permit will begin at the regularly scheduled Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on October 18. (Commissioners chose to postpone discussion at their October 3 meeting to give all commissioners a chance to review the mounds of information presented by the applicant and the objectors.)
3. Deliberation on the merits of the Cherenzia project will continue at regular Planning and Zoning meetings scheduled for November 1 and November 15.
4. Commissioners requested an opinion from the Town’s attorney on the zoning regulation 6.6.7, Excavation and Filling. (See Loop Links for a copy of this section of the zoning code.) Commissioners requested answers to the following questions:
- Does 6.6.7 apply to subdivisions?
- Can the Planning and Zoning Commission enforce 6.6.7.2.1?
- Can the Commission enforce 6.6.7.3?
- Can the Commission enforce 6.6.7.6?
5. Commissioners also requested staff to review the September 14 hearing and provide a written recap of Cherenzia's proposed stipulations.
6. The Commission will begin deliberation on October 18 with the zoning issues.
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I understand your emotional arguements, I really do. But this is about progress , about collecting taxes and about creating some short term jobs during construction.
I had a running battle with the town last year when a developer started building a house in my 100+ year old neighborhood. Now we have a house sticking way out of the ground( it was built on a filled in swamp) that looks nothing like any of the houses in the neigborhood ( so much for sensitivity to the architecture in the neigborhood). And now? You guessed it-an eyesore in our neighborhood fully permitted by the town.
Emotional appeals to the character of your neigborhood and to the possibility of environmental damage will get you nowhere, if the permits are in order and zoning allows it you will have your condos.
As long as the developer sees a profit can be made he will continue his push into your neigborhood.
The town will follow its rules and if its rules say he can build the condos then the town will permit it.
Indeed the loop is beautiful as WAS my neighborhood but you must know tha appeals to emotion won't work.
PAUL
If the permits are in order or can be amended so that they are in order
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