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Norwich ZBA approves variance allowing Bob's Discount Furniture to stage trailers, imposes screening and hours limits
Summary
The Norwich Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously to approve a use‑variance for Bob's Discount Furniture to stage detached semi‑trailers on a General Commercial parcel, limiting operations to daylight hours, capping on‑site trailers at 500, and requiring vegetative screening and a mapped no‑parking area.
The Norwich Zoning Board of Appeals on March 10 approved a use‑variance allowing Bob's Discount Furniture to use a parcel on Stonington Road for the outdoor staging of detached semi‑trailers, imposing conditions that include vegetative screening, a cap of 500 trailers, and hours limited to Monday–Saturday, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.
The variance (Application B‑2601, Assessor map 111, Block 1, Lot 66) was requested to support a nearby distribution center that, company representatives said, uses external yards for short‑term staging. In testimony, a company executive described the staging as part of the firm’s nationwide distribution model and said the trailers typically turn over every seven to ten days. “If we don’t get this, we cannot operate here…
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