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Planning Board approves Hamilton Avenue industrial redevelopment referral after neighborhood outreach
Summary
The board approved a referral for a consolidated 6.88-acre Hamilton Avenue site to be redeveloped into a single-story, ~112,000-sq-ft industrial/warehouse building; applicant emphasized stormwater upgrades, landscaping and screening, reduced parking, and a history of neighbor meetings.
The Stamford Planning Board on March 11 voted to forward a zoning-board referral for the Hamilton Avenue redevelopment, a proposal to consolidate three adjacent lots into a single 6.88‑acre parcel and build a roughly 112,000‑square‑foot, single‑story industrial building intended to accommodate multiple tenants.
Attorney William Hennessy, representing the applicant, said the project removes aging industrial buildings and expansive impervious surfaces, regrades the site and installs modern stormwater controls including hydrodynamic separators and an underground infiltration system. "The proposal is to consolidate all the lots into 1 which would produce 1 lot of 6.88 acres in size," Hennessy told the board.
Hennessy and the project team described design measures intended to reduce impacts on the adjacent residential neighborhood: fewer curb cuts on Hamilton Avenue, a single consolidated driveway placed as far from houses as feasible, wing walls to screen loading docks, downward-directed warm-tone lighting, and landscaped substitute open space along the new frontage. The plan reduces total parking from more than 300 existing spaces to about 111 proposed automobile spaces and locates parking at higher elevation near Hamilton Avenue so patrons walk down ramps or stairs to the building.
Matt Popp, the landscape architect, said the plan proposes planting roughly 65 new trees plus approximately 169 arborvitae (Green Giant) and additional evergreen screening immediately behind a proposed fence along the eastern property line. “We’re proposing, I think 65, new trees,” Popp said, and noted that many evergreens would be shipped in at 12–14 feet high to provide early screening.
Board members pressed the applicant on noise and hours of operation. Hennessy said there are no signed tenants yet and the building is being designed as flexible 'flex-industrial' space; he described ordinary zoning conditions such as a construction staging and management plan and a 24/7 construction liaison that would be required if the zoning board imposes conditions.
After questions on grading, sightlines and truck circulation, Bill Levin moved to approve the referral; Chet Sallet seconded and the board voted to approve the application referral unanimously.
The applicant said they will return with zoning-board materials and will report back to the planning board if conditions or additional studies are requested.
