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Developers present plan for 45 apartments at former industrial site; commission signals support for incentive housing overlay

Torrington Planning and Zoning Commission · November 20, 2025
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Summary

A development team presented a preliminary plan to reuse a blighted building at 245 East Elm Street for about 45 apartments under an Incentive Housing Overlay; presenters said a $1M brownfields grant funded environmental cleanup and proposed at least 20% of units be restricted as affordable for 30 years.

A development team presented preliminary plans Nov. 17 to use an Incentive Housing Overlay at 245 East Elm Street to convert a formerly blighted industrial building into a roughly 45‑unit mixed‑use project. Marty Connor, a certified planner working with the owner, and architect and engineering team members presented concept elevations, site layout, and a timeline for environmental abatement funded by a 2022 brownfields grant.

Connor described the IHZ mechanism as a tool to encourage adaptive reuse and affordable…

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