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Tactical Arms owner, neighbors and city staff debate parking plan; ZBA tables Fishbone Enterprises backing-onto-street variance
Summary
The Zoning Board of Appeals kept open and tabled a variance request from Fishbone Enterprises (34 Midgen Ave.) that would allow parking spaces to back directly into Midgen Avenue; city planners recommended denial and the board asked for further documentation including the recorded 1988 plan and city planner testimony.
The Torrington Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday tabled and kept open a public hearing on a variance request from Fishbone Enterprises, LLC (operating as Tactical Arms) at 34 Midgen Avenue seeking relief from a regulation that prohibits parking spaces from having direct access to a public street and forbids vehicles from backing into a public street.
Nut graf: City planner Jeremy Leifer advised the board that a recorded plan from March 1988 shows a compliant parking scheme and that subsequent unapproved changes to on-site parking mean there is no preexisting legal nonconformity. Leifer’s memo — read into the record — concluded, “I therefore recommend the denial of this…
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