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Residents press council on chronic neighborhood flooding; business owner seeks storage-unit zoning exception
Summary
Several residents told the West Haven City Council on Sept. 17 of recurring flooding in new subdivisions and asked the city to enforce developer drainage promises; a local business owner asked for an exemption to the city's 800-foot setback rule to allow storage units on an industrial-surrounded five-acre property.
Three residents and one business owner spoke during the public-presentation period at the Sept. 17 West Haven City Council meeting, raising chronic neighborhood flooding and requesting relief, and asking for a zoning exception related to storage-unit rules.
Brett Hogan, owner of King Seating and Cooling, told the council his property on 1900 West is a roughly five-and-a-half-acre parcel surrounded by industrial uses and two storefronts. Hogan said retail tenants avoid space set back far from the street and that he receives frequent inquiries about storage units. He asked the council to consider an exemption to an 800-foot setback requirement along that corridor and told the council the site…
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