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Planning and Zoning denies apartment‑zone text amendment request; commissioners prefer comprehensive rewrite
Summary
The commission voted 8‑1 on April 10 to deny a petitioner’s request to permit reduced requirements for legally nonconforming apartment‑zone lots, citing the imminent comprehensive zoning rewrite and insufficient demonstration that the amendment would serve the district broadly.
The New Canaan Planning and Zoning Commission on April 10 voted 8‑1 to deny a text amendment that would have allowed the commission to reduce certain bulk and coverage requirements for legally nonconforming lots in the apartment zone.
Proponent counsel framed the amendment as a tool to allow redevelopment of small, nonconforming multifamily properties to modern standards — for example, enabling an existing four‑unit building to be rebuilt without losing unit count. Commissioners generally agreed redevelopment can be appropriate, but most said the petition was too narrowly tailored to benefit a single property and that a broader rezoning process underway made a piecemeal…
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