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Neighborhood representative asks council to restore NRZ input on special permits, objects to large occupancy in small bank building

Hartford City Council (public comment) · November 11, 2025
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Summary

A neighborhood representative asked the City Council to postpone two zoning items and to restore formal NRZ input on special permits after she said planning staff and corporation counsel dismissed neighborhood comments on a proposed special permit.

Alyssa Peterson spoke during public comment on behalf of her neighborhood NRZ and asked the City Council to postpone two zoning items so that NRZs and Hartford Next can review them. She said two weeks earlier she had asked to delay consideration of a special permit that would allow a church to seat 235 people in a small former bank building — "75 seats in the 1st Floor of a small bank…

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