Mystic The Stonington Planning and Zoning Commission approved a site plan application Tuesday night to merge two lots on Cottrell and Haley streets to create a 14-space parking lot for the redeveloped Odd Fellows building.
Whaler s Inn RE LLC requested to merge the Odd Fellows lot at 11 Cottrell St. and a vacant lot at 1-3 Haley St. that formerly contained two homes. The building houses three shops Shades of Mystic, Rochelle s and Crop hair salon on the ground floor and four apartments on the upper two floors.
New London attorney William Sweeney, who represents Whaler s Inn RE LLC, told commission members during Tuesday s public hearing that if the parking lot meets the town s site plan requirements, then they are required to approve the application, as the commission does not have the discretion it does with other types of applications, such as special use permits. He then pointed out the project meets or exceeds all bulk and dimensional zoning requir
Big smiles last week from Heaven’s Hall of Fame for prominent Italian Americans.
Surely the biggest was from Luisa DeLauro. She died three years ago at age 103 after an amazing life which included working in New Haven’s sweatshops as a youngster and then serving for decades on the New Haven City Council.
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Last week her daughter, Congresswoman Rosa Delauro, became the first Connecticut member ever to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee. In fact, since the panel was created in 1845, only one New Englander has led it, a Massachusetts lawmaker who was chairman for two years in the mid-1800s.