Vanita, would you make me co-host, please?

I did.

Okay, thank you.

We can get started now.

I'd like to welcome everyone and call tonight's special zoning board meeting to order.

I'm David Stein, Chair of the Zoning Board, and it is 6 38 on March 2nd, 2026.

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.

Bill Morris?

Here.

Roseanne McManus.

Here.

Jerry Bozak.

Here.

And now for the staff, Benita Matter.

And Ralph Blessing will be joining us at some point.

The board's microphones will be open throughout tonight's hearing.

Applicants' mics will be open during the public hearing for their application.

However, I would ask applicants to please mute their mics when not speaking in order to reduce background noise.

The first part of the 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.

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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.

And Vanita's email address is VMATHUR at Stanford C T dot gov.

I'm sorry.

You can find the agenda for tonight's meeting and the meeting application and other materials by going to our website www.stanford ct.gov slash zoning.

And this is application two two five-48.

It's a continuation from our last meeting on February 9th.

60 Palmer's Hill Road, site and architectural plans and a requested uses.

Applicants proposing to adaptively reuse the existing two-story building and construct a new daycare facility connected to the existing building, adding 60 surface parking spaces, an outdoor pavilion, outdoor play area, 11 classrooms, and a gross motor space.

The proposed facility is anticipated to serve up to 220 children.

Well, it the opponents had presented information from their consultants, both engineering and traffic.

And we had asked our uh city staff to respond to those.

Um engineering to respond to the uh engineering related comments and um traffic to respond to the traffic related comments from uh from the opponent's traffic engineer.

Uh so tonight um we'll be hearing from both uh the applicant, I assume through uh Mr.

Redness, and um from the opponent through uh attorney Pierce.

Uh and uh so Mr.

Redness, why don't you take it away?

Sure.

Thank you very much for the record, uh Richard Redness, Redness and Mead here with our team, engineer, traffic, um CLC, uh representatives, Mr.

Hennessy, the legal side, and we're all here to answer questions.

Um there were a few things that we were to follow up on.

Uh first, I'd like to thank Mr.

Morris for pointing out the lines in the EPB letter from an early EPB letter, uh, because we were able to uh work with EPB staff and and obtain an EPB permit for the development as proposed.

So we think we buttoned that one up.

Um with respect to um the uh drainage issues.

I think we've answered the questions.

We have a plan that with whatever modifications need to be made after we determine which way we're going to do, whether we all get the solution working with Edge Hill that we want.

Um I've had additional conversations with them.

The uh management of Edge Hill understands and is ready to go.

They're waiting for their recapitalization partner to be in place, and so again, we're all gonna act like that's not gonna happen, but we know that everybody wants it to happen.

So we're gonna do our best to uh to do that.

With respect to the drainage, um, I think you know, listen, we we we learned at the last meeting, they changed attorneys, changed tactics, and basically creating uh uh a record for appeal, and that's fine.

Um we think that the things that they raise are pretty simple things to address, you know, whether it's uh a 1.3 or 1.0 factor that you use, we'll use whatever factor the engineering department feels appropriate.

And if it's 1.3, that's what we'll use.

In terms of things like we didn't model the catch basin being removed, fine, we'll leave the catch basin.