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Developers and commission continue debate over Locust Avenue hotel text change; hearing continued to Nov. 18

New Canaan Planning and Zoning Commission · October 29, 2025
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Windward Development presented revised text changes and site plans for a proposed Locust Avenue hotel, including a 55-foot height cap and limits on extending continuous building wall lengths.

Windward Development representatives presented revised zoning text and site changes Wednesday as part of an ongoing application to allow a hotel and limited dimensional waivers in the Business C zone at 39, 49 and 51 Locust Avenue. Andrew Sidorides, representing Windward Development, said the revised proposal confines the text change to section 4.6(d) and adds a 55-foot overall height cap for adaptive-reuse hotel projects. He described criteria to allow limited extensions of nonconforming continuous building wall lengths on the ground floor (offsets, partial concealment with landscaping and a 30% cap) and a requirement that any…

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