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Planning board approves broad zoning updates: CL rules tightened, park rezoning and a smoke‑shop cap among changes
Summary
The Stamford Planning Board voted unanimously to approve a suite of zoning text and map changes on Feb. 10, including new design standards for CL districts, a lot coverage cap, a smoke‑shop cap (one per 15,000 residents), and a map change rezoning McKeithen Park and an adjacent parcel to Park (P) district.
At its Feb. 10 meeting, the Stamford Planning Board approved a multi‑item package of zoning updates and a map change intended to tighten design standards for large‑format commercial districts, expand protections for parkland, and add limits on certain retail uses.
Ralph Blessing, city land‑use staff, presented the CL (commercial large format) district text change that creates a new chapter of standards: minimum lot sizes and frontages, a floor‑area ratio limit (1 FAR), an 80% lot‑coverage maximum, increased side and rear setbacks where CL abuts single‑family zones (15 ft side; 20–40 ft rear when adjacent to residential), a minimum 100‑ft…
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