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New Canaan subcommittee hires Amenta Emma to study three town lots; members press parking, value and outreach questions
Summary
Consultants Amenta Emma presented existing-conditions analyses Nov. 10 and will return with two schematic options per site in January. The subcommittee emphasized a "no net loss" of public parking, asked for parking-use data, and discussed trade-offs between maximizing unit yield and town land value.
Krista Nielsen, chair of the Town of New Canaan Affordable Housing Committee’s Project Development Subcommittee, opened the Nov. 10 meeting by introducing consultants from Amenta Emma and outlining the scope: the firm will prepare base information for three town-owned sites, develop two site-plan options per site and return with a recommended preferred option after public feedback.
"They're going to develop 2 site plan options for each sites to explore the maximum residential unit yield based on different parking and building configurations," Nielsen said, describing a schedule that calls for initial plans in December, a January presentation (tentatively Jan. 12) and public outreach in January–February before refinement in March–April and a recommendation by May.
Consultant Jeremy Jamalkowski, senior project designer at Amenta Emma, walked members through existing-conditions slides for each lot and emphasized transit connections at the largest site. "This is not designs. They're just the existing conditions with sort of notes on that," Jamalkowski said as he began the…
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