Simsbury zoning panel approves site-plan revisions for Cambridge Crossing (now Copper Hill Estates), 5–1

The Simsbury Zoning Commission on Monday approved a site-plan amendment for the Cambridge Crossing development (now called Copper Hill Estates), allowing the developer to convert several front duplexes to single-family homes, revise landscaping and phasing, and alter affordable‑housing commitments. The motion approving application ZC26‑09 passed 5–1.

Planning staff framed the application as a response to a change in ownership and a need to complete unfinished infrastructure left by the project’s previous developer. Staff said the development originally approved in 2015 includes about 79 homes, with roughly 33 currently occupied, six permitted or under construction, and about 40 units still unbuilt. The new owner, the commission was told, acquired the property through foreclosure and proposed updated phasing and a commitment to accelerate affordable units.

“I represent the owners of the property,” attorney Alan Kerner told the commission, describing the team’s work to stabilize erosion, flush out sediment, and produce a phasing plan. “The next four building permits are gonna be for workforce housing,” Kerner said, adding that the developer expects that sequence will put the project “actually 1 unit ahead.”

Much of the public discussion focused on how the development’s affordable units will be…