By Andreas Yilma, Staff Writer
BEACON FALLS — An appeal filed in Superior Court in March seeks court intervention to grant a developer’s application for a zone change for the proposed Hopp Brook Estates housing development project.
Attorney Stephen Bellis, a lawyer with The Pellegrino Law Firm and a principal with Hopp Brook Developers, LLC, filed the appeal. The appeal claims the Planning and Zoning Commission “acted illegally, arbitrarily and in abuse of its discretion” when it denied a zone change application for the project in February.
Hopp Brook Developers applied last year for a zone change and a special exception for a project to build 109 three-bedroom homes on a 135-acre, undeveloped parcel of land it owns off Oakwood Drive near the Bethany border. The proposed project elicited strong opposition from members of the public.