The Stamford Zoning Board held a public hearing on two major applications: a proposed 10-story extended stay hotel at 0 West Park Place and a zone change to create overflow parking for Bulls Head Shopping Center. The board also entered executive session to discuss pending litigation, approved several administrative items, and continued one application to the next meeting.
Okay. That's Dr. David. Okay. I'd like to welcome everyone and call tonight's zoning board meeting to order. I'm David Stein, Chair of the Zoning Board, and it is 638 on January 6, 2025. Happy New Year to everyone. The members of the board and the staff are holding this meeting by Zoom video conference. The public is in attendance both on video conference and by telephone. First, I'd like to do a roll call of the board and the staff. Bill Morris. Yuri Bozak. And um now the staff, uh Ralph Blessing. Here. And Benita Matter. Yeah. Uh during tonight's meeting, the microphones for the board will be on throughout. Uh applicants' mics will be on during the public hearing for their application. However, we would ask the applicant to please mute their mics for not speaking in order to reduce background noise. The first part of tonight's meeting is the public hearing during which the public has an opportunity to speak. Each member of the public will be muted until it is your turn to speak. If you came through Zoom, please use the raise your hand function and Vanita will unmute you when it is your turn to speak. If you called in on one of the telephone conference call phone numbers, press star nine, and this will raise your hand. Then press star six to unmute when you are called upon to speak.gov. And uh she will try to work out whatever issue you're having. When members of the public speak, please state your name and address for the record and whether you are in favor of or opposed to the application. The board requests that members of the public limit your comments to three minutes so that everyone will have a chance to speak. This meeting is being recorded and will be posted on the zoning board's website. And you can find the agenda for tonight's meeting and all the meeting applications and other materials by going to our website at WWW dot stamford ct.gov slash zoning. The first item we have on tonight's agenda um is a discussion regarding pending litigation in the matter of butter holding five, comma LLC, DBA butter cannabis versus the zoning board of the city of Stanford, application two two three dash four six. Um as uh many of members of the public know this uh relates to an application by um butter cannabis to open up a dispensary near um the boys and girls club at the Yearwood Center, and this was denied by the zoning board and butter proceeded to sue the zoning board. Um so the zoning board uh needs to go into executive session to discuss this. Um it'll probably shouldn't take us too long, and then we will come back. Um can I get a motion, please, to go into executive session? Second okay. Um any discussion. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Okay. Um, so um let's uh board members, uh, let's leave this meeting and um uh go into our executive session and uh to members of the public, we will be back, so just stay tuned. Thank you. David, you muted David, you're muted. No one answered. Okay. Okay. Um favor say aye. Okay. The uh so the board went into executive session at six forty one. We came out at six fifty six. No votes were taken.