New Gas Station/Store Plan Gets OK From Farmington Wetlands Board

FARMINGTON, CT — An abandoned gas station in town recently received the go-ahead from the town's watercourses agency to begin work to transform it into a functioning gas station/convenience store.

The Farmington Conservation and Inland Wetlands Commission last week unanimously approved an application from develpers BB Development LLC to transform vacant and blighted 368 Plainville Ave. into a taxpaying gas station/convenience store operation in the Unionville part of town.

Because the location of the site has it close to a small area of wetlands, any development there requires the approval of the town's CIWC, which was granted Feb. 1.

The proposal next must go before the town's plan and zoning commission, which next meets Feb. 13, but this proposal is not yet on the docket.

Engineers and designers representing the applicant said there was some contamination of soil associated with the site's past.

That would be remediated via excavation and removal of the contaminated soil, which likely leaked from old underground gas tanks .

Commission members seemed to have no issues with the actual proposal itself, but some conditions were attached.

The CIWC's approval mandates that developers submit a soil management plan to the town and riprap be installed to the north to hedge against any erosion issues.

The project would also receive some oversight from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for potential environmental impacts.

For the minutes of the Feb. 1 Farmington Inland Wetlands Commission meeting, click on this link.

For more information on the site, click on this link.