You have a total of 2 minutes in each round to find as many words as you can before the timer runs out. The words must be at least 3 letters long. 26.Text Twist features a mixture of easy and tricky words to find. There is an ongoing Planning and Zoning public hearing on Upstream Properties’ application, which is scheduled to continue during the commission’s next meeting on Oct. If approved, the commission would then act to apply the overlay zone to the property and approve the developer’s conceptual site plan. “That’s a map amendment, and they’d bring with that a conceptual plan with quite a bit of detail required,” Olson said.Ī developer would be required to itemize ways in which their proposed map and site plan do not comply with Route 6 district zone requirements, he said, and the Planning and Zoning Commission would determine appropriateness. It would start with an applicant filing to have the SHMUOD applied to a particular piece of property in the Route 6 zoning district
“It just streamlines it and it changes the order of things a bit to make it a more efficient process for developers and (the commission).” “The process (would be) very similar to how things work now if I were to ask you to change the regulations,” Olson said. Olson said the process would be similar to the one applicants currently go through when seeking a regulation change, except it would save more time. It would make the zoning process efficient not only for Upstream Properties’ proposal, he said, but future Route 6 developments as well. The proposed SHMUOD approach would simplify the process in a way that maintains the Planning and Zoning Commission’s “ultimate control over whether things can happen,” Olson said, while also letting developers “operate under a streamlined approach.” Some of the longest running high school football rivalries in the country are right here in Connecticut, many of which are played on Thanksgiving. “The result can be a rather jumbled mess, and that is not great as far as zoning regulations go,” he said. Requests that are granted may work for an individual project, Olson said, but not so well for others “What we see right now in the Route 6 zoning district is an approach where every individual developer comes to you and says, ‘We need this one or two small tweaks to the regulations to make our development work for us,’” he said.
Olson said a lot of thought into how to accomplish a streamlined process for Stony Hill Mixed Use Overlay Districts.
There would be land size, frontage and other requirements for utilization of a Stony Hill Mixed Use Overlay District, including that the proposed developments are in accordance with the town’s comprehensive plan. For parcels at least five acres in size, up to 20 units per acre would be allowed within the proposed zoning change, compared to 10 units currently permitted in the Route 6 zone.Įach zone proposed would be an independent overlay zoning district, created with the Planning and Zoning Commission’s approval, in order to accomplish a specific purpose.Īttorney Peter Olson said the text amendment would provide a “floating zone” option for applicants looking to develop large parcels in the Route 6 district, and each overlay district would apply an additional layer of regulations and authorized uses in supplementation of the underlying Route 6 zone requirements and provisions.Įach would have “unique and narrowly drawn permitted uses, bulk and dimensional standards and other applicable zoning provisions” in order to “accommodate unique and desirable development that is consistent with the long range, orderly development of Route 6 but that may not be accommodated by the established zoning of the area,” according to the proposed text amendment.īoth commercial and multi-family residential dwellings would be permitted in Stony Hill Mixed Use Overlay Districts as long as they are in locations deemed appropriate by the Planning and Zoning Commission.