The Stamford Zoning Board met on June 11, 2024, to discuss a proposed housing development at 800 Long Ridge Road, along with other zoning applications. The bulk of the meeting consisted of public comments on the 800 Long Ridge Road application, which were overwhelmingly opposed. The board continued the application to June 24, 2024.
Sorry. Um let's get out of here. Hi, thank you. Thank you for your time this evening. Hi, my name is Joanne Manjoni. I live on Loch Ren Avenue, which intersects with 800 Long Ridge Road. I'm writing to let you know my opposition to this application. I moved to our current singly single family home from downtown Stanford seven years ago with my three children to live in a quiet single family neighborhood where the children could ride their bike bikes, play ball, or walk to their friend's house for an afternoon of play. This proposal for the land adjacent to our home on Loch Ren Avenue goes against the very reason why my family and many other families in this neighborhood have moved here from other areas of Stanford. This neighborhood consists of single family homes on half acre to over a half acre to over acre size lots. Apartments. Let's better. Can you hear me? I'm sorry. Yes. I'm sorry about that. Um the apartment buildings do not belong here with this area. There are more than enough options downtown for these types of developments. That's what downtown is for. That's why I lived loving downtown when I did live there. There's so much overdevelopment in Stanford lately, and the very thought of my neighborhood having to go through this makes my stomach turn. Please do not ruin my family's neighborhood. It makes me want to move out of Stanford. This neighborhood deserves the peace and quiet we all moved here for, not the traffic, the air pollution, or the overcrowding. This proposal lacks the compatibility with the single family zones and will introduce traffic congestion strain on city resources, including the public schools, which are a problem to this day for my children getting on and off the bus. People do not stop for the buses when they have their red lights on. The incessant speeding also that goes on at these lights and up and down Long Ridge is enough to make you not want to leave your home sometimes. Um I'd be if I'd like to know how they will address the traffic light on that intersects Long Ridge with Lochran, because right now only two cars can get out of Lochran Avenue when that light changes. So if there's gonna be 120 cars coming out of the road. And you've got 30 seconds. Thank you. Um there's no RM1 zones near 800 Long Ridge, so I don't appreciate those comments. I was said Havemeyer is not made up of apartment buildings. Businesses are returning to offices and drones. We're gonna run out of business office space now soon, apparently. May 22nd was a half day for Stanford Public Schools. So if that's one of the days that the traffic study was done, I would question that day in the other days of the traffic study. Um there and during the presentation, they conveniently left out the residential neighborhoods across the street from 800 Longridge. I oppose this. Thank you. Good. Thank you. Next we have Mr. Patrick Casley. Hello, uh, this is Patrick Casley from uh Vineyard Lane. Uh, thank you all for taking the time and I appreciate uh you you guys use uh taking the time to listen to us. Um I oppose this application vehemently on the basis that it's egregiously incompatible uh with the surrounding area, far too intensive, and that the residents tonight will confirm this lack of compatibility, just to give some numbers. This will be roughly five to six percent of the Turner River population at one address. The next door proposed sites that you rejected a few months back, would have been eight to ten percent. Collectively, these two sites would be 13 to 16 percent of the Turner River population.