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Stamford planning board backs zoning text change to protect below-market-rate units after 1201 Washington Boulevard sale
Summary
The Planning Board voted unanimously June 24 to recommend a zoning text change requiring review and replacement or fee-in-lieu when BMR units are lost, and to give displaced BMR residents priority for future units; the change responds to the sale of 1201 Washington Boulevard to Yukon.
Stamford’s Planning Board on June 24 unanimously recommended a zoning text change intended to protect below-market-rate (BMR) units after the sale of 1201 Washington Boulevard to Yukon, which is converting the building toward student housing. Ralph Blessing, land use bureau chief for the City of Stamford, told the board the proposal responds to an unanticipated loss of nine BMR units at the Boulevard and seeks to reduce the city’s reliance on voluntary, ad hoc solutions.
The proposed amendment would require zoning approval for the loss of affordable units, mandate a one-for-one replacement of lost BMR units where feasible, allow a fee-in-lieu payment to the city’s…
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