Groton The developer proposing a mixed-use village at the Mystic Education Center property is “exploring all our options” after the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission made clear its concerns about overdevelopment of the site.
While the commission did not make any binding decisions, it came to a consensus at a workshop last week that the town should not initiate a new floating zone for the property.
The commission, however, would be open to a zone change, such as to a rural residential RU-40 zone or potentially RU-20 zone for part of the property, Planning and Development Director Jon Reiner said. Those rural residential zones call for lower density than what is included in the developer s proposal and allow for uses including single-family residential, attached two-family residential, some type of age-restricted housing and similar types of development, and some business uses. It s up to the developer to look at the zoning and then determine how to move forward.
Published June 23. 2021 5:15PM
The Town of Groton Planning and Zoning Commission held a Zoom public meeting workshop June 14 to discuss applicable zoning regulations for the development of the Mystic Oral School. Public meetings are normally recorded. There is no official recording of this pivotal meeting. I, personally, took eight pages of notes, but they are not a public record, nor do they capture the nuances of what was discussed.
Why did town staff neglect to have the meeting recorded? This meeting set the parameters for any application to follow in order to develop the Oral School property. It is nigh on criminal to have failed to record this meeting for the record. It reduces any further conversation about the outcome to a he said, she said discussion.
A consultant presented recommendations from a study of parking of downtown Mystic, including metering and expanding the two-hour parking zone, establishing
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