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Neighbors challenge Country School turf plan; P&Z keeps hearing open pending field‑use audit
Summary
The commission continued the special‑permit application for New Canaan Country School (635 Frogtown Road) after neighbors contested the school’s field‑use chart and asked for an audit of actual rentals and bookings; the school agreed to post a baseline audit and accepted several conditions including no permanent or temporary lighting.
The Planning & Zoning Commission on March 31 kept the hearing open for New Canaan Country School’s application to regrade fields and build retaining walls in connection with proposed artificial turf installations, after neighbors and counsel challenged the accuracy of a field‑use chart the school submitted as the project baseline.
Attorney Steve Finn, representing the school, said the notice and neighbor outreach had been adequate and urged the commission not to single the school out for conditions that don’t apply uniformly. "Under the law," Finn said, "in order for a condition of a special permit to be valid, it must bear a substantial relationship to the application request." Finn and the school team said they were willing to accept several…
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