NEW MILFORD, CT — The New Milford Zoning Commission is scheduled to consider three major development applications, including two affordable housing proposals totaling 200 apartments and an industrial warehouse complex, when it meets Tuesday, Oct. 27.
The commission's agenda also includes public hearings on a proposed concrete manufacturing plant, a municipal redevelopment project and a large industrial warehouse addition.
Commissioners may take action on several applications, although no decisions have been made on the matters listed for consideration.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Loretta Brickley Conference Room at Town Hall, 10 Main St..
Two affordable housing developments are among the applications awaiting possible commission decisions.
S System Properties LLC is seeking approval for four residential apartment buildings containing 104 units at 125 Kent Road.
The proposed development would have a combined ground-floor area of 36,590 square feet. At least 32 apartments, representing 30 percent of the total, would be designated as affordable housing units.
The application also includes excavation exceeding 700 cubic yards, traffic generation exceeding 500 vehicle trips per day, parking, stormwater management, landscaping, lighting and utilities.
The commission has until Nov. 17 to act on the application.
A separate proposal from Boccarossa Land Investments LLC calls for 12 four-story apartment buildings containing 96 units at 215 and 219 Danbury Road.
Of those units, 29 would be designated as affordable housing.
The proposal includes 30,570 square feet of total ground-floor area, excavation exceeding 700 cubic yards and traffic generation exceeding 500 daily trips, along with parking, drainage, lighting and landscaping improvements.
The application also has a Nov. 17 decision deadline.
Both developments are proposed under Connecticut's affordable housing land use appeals law.
Flagstaff Investments LLC is seeking approval for an industrial development at 260 Pickett District Road.
The revised application calls for four single-story contractor warehouse buildings containing 68,000, 60,000, 70,000 and 30,000 square feet, respectively.
The project also includes excavation exceeding 700 cubic yards and associated access roads, utilities, parking, stormwater management, landscaping and grading.
The property is located in an industrial zone and within the 100-year floodplain.
The commission's deadline to decide the application is Oct. 27.
The commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing on an application from 21st Century Concrete Inc. for a concrete batch manufacturing plant at 574 Danbury Road.
The proposal includes construction of a three-story building measuring 57.5 feet by 48 feet, with a 2,760-square-foot footprint.
Two attached silos, measuring 68 feet and 61 feet in height, would accompany the building.
The application also seeks to change the use of an existing 20,520-square-foot building from manufacturing and storage to storage only.
Two outdoor storage and sales areas for masonry products are proposed, along with parking, drainage, landscaping and lighting improvements.
The property is in the IC Zone.
The public hearing must close by Dec. 1 unless an extension is granted. The agenda identifies Nov. 17 as the anticipated meeting for that deadline.
Artel Engineering Group LLC is seeking approval for a 117,660-square-foot, single-story addition to an existing 73,510-square-foot industrial warehouse at 87 Pickett District Road.
The proposal includes driveway, parking, stormwater management, lighting and landscaping improvements.
The property is in an industrial zone and the 100-year floodplain.
The public hearing is scheduled to close Oct. 27 unless an extension is granted.
The Town of New Milford has submitted an application for the first phase of a multiphase redevelopment project at 12 Scovill St..
The proposal includes an outdoor materials storage yard and a three-story training tower measuring 40 feet high, 40 feet long and 16 feet wide, with a 1,600-square-foot footprint.
The project also includes site access, parking, stormwater management and landscaping improvements.
The town is requesting waivers of lighting and traffic report requirements.
The public hearing must close by Dec. 1 unless extended, with Nov. 17 identified on the agenda as the anticipated meeting.
Kenneth and Adrienne Ventresca are seeking approval to establish a one-bedroom accessory apartment in the basement of an existing single-family home at 41 Upper Reservoir Road.
The applicants are requesting waivers of several submission requirements, including an A-2 survey, existing conditions map, engineered site plan, building renderings, parking and loading plan, stormwater management report, lighting plan, landscaping plan, traffic report and soil erosion and sediment control plan.
The hearing is scheduled to close Oct. 27 unless an extension is granted.
The commission will consider a request from Cohen and Wolf PC to amend conditions of a 2019 approval for a mixed-use development at 189 Danbury Road.
The previously approved development includes 150 apartments in five residential buildings, with 45 units designated as affordable housing.
It also includes four commercial buildings totaling 16,341 square feet for retail and restaurant uses.
The application includes substantial excavation, traffic generation exceeding 500 trips per day, parking, utilities, stormwater management and landscaping.
The request seeks amendments to conditions 4a through 4c of the original approval. The agenda does not describe the proposed changes to those conditions.
Carlos Galarza has submitted a site plan application to convert an existing two-story office building to mixed use by adding a residential dwelling unit at 28 Park Lane Road.
The agenda recommends denying the application because it was filed under the wrong application type and is incomplete.
The commission has not yet acted on that recommendation.
The commission is also expected to consider accepting two applications for public hearings on Dec. 15.
Marlon Cabrera is seeking to reclassify an existing 810-square-foot, one-bedroom dwelling at 13 Sawyer Hill Road as an accessory apartment and construct a new two-story, three-bedroom primary residence.
Devon Dobson is seeking approval to construct a 16-by-32-foot inground swimming pool, a 12-by-18-foot patio and associated improvements at 6 Liberty Hill.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider their Sept. 22 meeting minutes and review six invoices for engineering and legal services.
The agenda also calls for review and possible acceptance of the commission's 2027 regular meeting schedule.
Additional public hearings are scheduled for Nov. 17 on accessory apartment proposals at 10 Granite Road and 12 Big Bear Hill Road, and a farm winery proposal at 63 Walker Brook Road North.
An application to convert a building at 46 Main St. into four apartments has been withdrawn.
Applications and supporting materials can be viewed through the town's OpenGov online permitting system.
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