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Developers present preliminary plan to formalize Simsbury Center and add about 35 apartments
Summary
Planning staff and consultants presented a preliminary Planned Area Development (PAD) for Simsbury Center that would formalize mixed commercial/residential uses across roughly 10 properties and add an approximately 35‑unit apartment building; commissioners provided nonbinding feedback and requested more detail on parking, flood limits and affordable‑housing calculations.
Terry Anne Hahn, principal at LADAPC, presented a preliminary Planned Area Development application for Simsbury Center that would formalize an existing cluster of mixed uses and allow a proposed residential building of roughly 35 units behind the frontage buildings.
The presentation matters because the PAD would change how existing commercial and residential uses are regulated at the site, allow more flexible reuse of small storefronts, and add new housing in the town center. Staff characterized the submission as an early, nonbinding step: the commission will provide comments and the applicant will file a formal zone‑change/master‑plan application and site plan for review.
Hahn said the PAD is designed to reflect what already exists on the site and…
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