The Windsor Planning and Zoning Commission held its regular hybrid meeting on May 20, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. in Council Chambers, Town Hall. The meeting addressed several major items including a design development concept plan for a mixed-use development at 1 & 10 Targeting Centre and 465 Bloomfield Avenue, a zone change and text amendment for 550 Marshall Phelps Road (Bodum USA), and a special use application for 27 Sinclair Street that was denied due to a notice defect. The Commission also approved various routine items, received updates from staff, and heard public comments.
Seven o'clock, so I will call the planning and zoning commission meeting of May 20th to order. And at this time, Mitch, will you let the uh audience at home know uh the particulars? If there's anyone from the public who would like to address the commission, you may do so by raising your hand on your computer if your device has a microphone capability by selecting the participants icon on the zoom menu bar and then clicking raise hand or by dialing star nine on your phone when you were called on, you'll be prompted that you are now unmuted. Please state your name and address for clear communication. We ask that you do not place the call on speaker phone. Thank you. Uh first order of business is public communications and petitions from anyone in the audience that wishes to speak to any item that is not a public hearing item this evening. Uh so we have a um the applicant here for twenty-seven Sinclair. Um it's come to my attention that there was a notice defect with the application. Um so I I suggested that she speech speak, excuse me, during the public comment period. Um because of this notice defect, we're not able to open the public hearing. Um tonight. So I I figured the uh public comment period was the best opportunity to speak. Okay. Wouldn't you come up, give us your name and address and my name is Rhonda Myers and I live at four four Hope Circle in Windsor. Okay. Other twenty-five. So I mean the neighbors they walk by, they look at it, they can feel free to come and look closer at it, but it's in the it's in the yard. Um to move forward with this because the sign is not absent from the yard, it's just move to the side because people do come to cut the grass. They cut the front, the thigh and the back. I was there yesterday, there was no sign. Well, it has to be open to the public so that people can see it. If you're up at the side and up on a hill that may not be able to be seen. It's supposed to be in the front so that people anybody driving by can see the sign. Yeah, well, it was moved when the guy came the dude of grass. It should have been put back, and we can't go against state statute, which says we can't hear it. If it hasn't been out for the public to be able to see it. So I am asking if you will waive the fees. How much is the fee? The fee for a special use application is uh 210 dollars. Um there are advertising fees that sta the town does incur with an application. Uh I don't know specifically for one application what you know that line item would be, uh, how much that would cost, but there are fees with um advertising, and then obviously there's fees for staff time for providing the materials and putting everything together for the packets. So I pay one fee that he gave me. I filled out the form and I paid one fee only. I didn't pay any advertising fees or anything, and I am asking to have that fee waived uh waived because I paid that hefty fee already, and uh I was not aware because the sign was moved to the side of the house that um that would that would um make it so that I would have to extend out to another month. I was not aware. Well, I uh I I I can't see waiving the whole fee. We could probably split it in half because we've got to pay for advertising again from the town side, correct? Yes, ma'am, we do. Um you know I really can't speak to that because of my time, it's kind of a new precedent. I I haven't been one where the commission has waived fees on applications. Um very seldom we have, but it's very seldom. Um I think if we split it in half, that would be fair. I I think that unfortunately I mean I I agree with you. I'm okay with splitting the fees, but from beginning day one, um you've been ill-prepared on proper stuff. So hopefully you'll learn through this experience. I I think that that's that that's a key, because when you came before you didn't have all the documentation, you didn't know, you didn't know this, you didn't know that. I I highly recommend that you study up, make sure you have the proper documentation exactly what you're doing. Right. You know what I mean?