The Stamford Planning Board held a regular meeting on Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at 3:45 PM. The meeting began with introductions of new board members and a discussion of the shift in board composition toward built-environment professionals. The board then considered a referral for a zoning map change (Melrose Place/Fairfield Avenue), two variance applications, and tabled items due to a brief loss of quorum.
All right. Good evening. This is the uh Tuesday, April 14th meeting of the Stanford Planning Board. Um, before we proceed with our agenda, I would like to go ahead and um uh welcome some new members to our board as well as to celebrate the re um confirmation and a little shift in position for um one of our existing members. Um so I'll first I'll just go ahead and introduce myself and say a little bit about how long I've been on, and then we can go around if you want to just introduce yourself, what brought you to this. Um so I'm Jennifer Godzeno. Uh I am uh uh currently chair and have served as chair for um about um two a year and a half. Um I I first joined the board as an alternate um uh a little over 10 years ago and then was confirmed as a full member um in 2015. Um I am in professional urban planner. Um I'm so glad to be able to bring that expertise to this work. Um Chet, you want to go ahead? Well, sure, sure. Um so so my name is Chet Salett. Um I also uh joined as an alternate um two and a half years now ago. And um just this past um um well, yesterday, as a matter of fact, I was sworn in as a regular member. Um happy to do that. Though though the last year and a half, it it's felt like we were regular members anyway, you know, because we were essentially voting on at every meeting. Um so uh I'm happy to be here in that capacity. Thank you. Thank you, Chet. Um, and just something of note, Chet, um just background of architecture and uh your service on the uh school committee, school construction committee. Correct, correct. Uh specifically the uh school construction committee and and and the West Hill High School uh planning committee. So they're they're technically I think still two different committees, though one could be a subcommittee of the other. I'm not quite sure. That sounds right. Yeah. Um Ashley, would you like to go next? Sure. Um I'm Ashley Lye. I am a professional urban planner as well. Uh prior to being on the planning board, I was on the board of representatives for four years, representing District 20, and I served on the operations committee, the state and commerce committee, the charter revision committee, and the um housing and social services committees during that time. And then before that, I was on the environmental protection board for about six years, starting as an alternate and then a full-time member. Thank you. And Drew. Good evening, everyone. Uh Drew McKay, um, a project executive for a construction management firm in uh in Connecticut. Um I've been in construction and development for the better part of 20 years now. Um, mostly in uh the New York City and Tri-State area and uh recently I've transitioned into the Connecticut uh region. I've been a Stanford resident for over 10 years now. Uh kids go to Davenport Ridge up in uh um over uh in North Stanford area. And I'm I'm glad to be here. Okay. All right, great. Um I'm glad to that all of you were able to be um confirmed into those roles. Um I do want to note um and thank uh Bill Levin uh who had been serving as one of our alternates for many years. Um also brought a background as a professional urban planner. Um and uh now with the appointment of some new members will no longer be a member of our board, but was uh he was on before I started. Um and uh really appreciate his long service to the city. Uh Jeremy, I don't think introduced himself.