Note on date: The transcript indicates the meeting was held on February 9, 2026, but the instruction specifies the date as February 10, 2026. This summary uses the provided date; the discrepancy is noted.
The Stamford Zoning Board met on February 10, 2026, at 6:37 PM (via Zoom) to hear four public hearing applications. Chair David Stein presided. The meeting adjourned after 11:00 PM without taking any final votes on the applications; all items were either closed pending further information or continued to a later date.
Application 225-37 (Bath House):
Application 225-39 (Mosque):
Application 225-46 (St. John Towers):
Application 225-48 (Daycare):
225-37 (Bath House):
225-39 (Mosque):
225-46 (St. John Towers):
225-48 (Daycare):
Next steps: Staff and applicants will provide additional documentation; the board will resume hearings on pending items at a future meeting.
Manita, am I a uh co-host, or if not, could you make me please? I will make you a co-host. Um, we can get started, David. Okay. Um I'd like to welcome everyone and call tonight zoning board meeting to order. I'm David Stein, Chair of the Zoning Board, and it is 637 on February 9th, 2026. The members in the board, sorry, 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 teleconference. I'd like to do a roll call of the board and the staff. Uh Bill Morris. Here. Roseanne McManus. Here. Jerry Bozak. Here. And um so we have all the board members here. And now for the uh staff, Ralph Blessing. And Vanita Matter. Good. We have everyone. Um the board's microphones will be open throughout tonight's meeting. The applicant's microphones will be open during the public hearing when their application is being heard. However, I would ask the applicant to please mute their mics when not speaking in order to reduce background noise. The first part of tonight's meeting is the public hearing during which the public will have the opportunity to speak. Each member of the public will be muted until it is your turn to speak. Here's the procedure for the public to let us know that you would like to speak. If you came in through Zoom, please use the raise your hand function and you will be unmuted when it is your turn to speak. And we'll call on you at that time. If you called in on one of the telephone uh phone numbers, uh please press star nine, and this will raise your hand, and then star six to unmute when it is your turn to speak. When members of the public speak, please give us 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. If you have a problem trying to speak, you you want to raise your hand and it doesn't work or some other issue, please send an email to Vanita and she will do what she can to get you on. Um her email address is VMT at the VMATHUR at StamfordC T.gov. This meeting is being recorded and will be posted at the zoning board's website. And you can find the agenda for tonight's meeting and the meeting applications and other materials by going to our website, www.stanford ct.gov slash zoning. The first application that we're taking up tonight is a continuation from our last meeting on January 26th is application 225-37. Five Harbor Point Square LLC, Harbor Point Master Unit S5, aka zero Washington Boulevard, number S5, General Development Plan, Site and Architectural Plans and or requested uses and coastal site plan review. Applicant is proposing to transfer 34,000 plus or minus square feet of commercial floor area from block P7 to the property to facilitate a new health and wellness use known as the Bath House. So attorney Feinberg, welcome. And you please take it away. Great. For the record, my name is Lisa Feinberg. I'm a partner with Carmen Torrent, Sandack, and Hennessy. As you know, I am here tonight on behalf of the applicant in connection with the Bath House proposal. This is our third night of a public hearing, so we will do our very best to be brief. When we left you on January 26th, you asked us to give some additional thought to the SRDS design guidelines and consider ways that we could increase window transparency and provide some additional enhancements to the building facades. You all should have received a package with an updated architecture narrative, which includes new rendered views as well as a memo from my office describing compliance with the SRDS design guidelines. We also included an updated landscape plan and civil plans uh depicting the new landscape buffer on the western side of the building. These materials were also posted on the zoning board's website. In terms of tonight's presentation, I thought I would just briefly walk you through the facade changes and then turn to any questions that you may have.