The Windsor Town Planning and Zoning Commission held a regular hybrid meeting on September 9, 2025, at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers, Town Hall. The commission addressed multiple site plan revisions, special use reapprovals, public hearings, and text amendments. Key actions included approval of a 33,000-square-foot warehouse at 84 Ezra Silva Lane, denial of a group home special use at 27 Sinclair Street, approval of an adaptive reuse text amendment, and approval of several special use permits with conditions.
I'll call the planning accounting commission meeting of September to order. At this point, Mitch, would you uh fill in the people that are in zooming in on how they handle this? 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 are 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 speakerphone. Thank you. Uh new business. Public communications petitions from anyone in the audience that wishes to speak to an item that is not a public hearing item this evening. Seeing no one is anybody on the commission have any uh meetings or anything they need to report on? This uh meeting of the the um plan of conservation and development um on when uh Thursday evening at 6 30 here in the council chambers the hallow room a lot of little room we'll be sending out a um a notification to the committee tomorrow morning. Okay, thank you. Uh we don't have a zoning, we have no 824 reapprovals and revisions 3.9. Um we've approved several applications since our last meeting. Uh the first one for 550 Marshall Phelps. Uh this was to add silos. Um this was the I zone bowed them. Uh the second one was for 48 Schietchewog Street to install a pavilion and the R8 residential zone, uh Town of Windsor application, and then the third is the 1101 Kennedy Road. Install solar powered scoreboard, NZ Zone. Um Hof Sys was the applicant. Um, but the correct school. Yeah, I'm just gonna say that was the correct school, right? Uh yeah, uh to install a scoreboard for a soccer field. Uh the next application was for 100 Helmsford Way, uh site modifications, I zone, Amazon, and then 50 Sage Park Road, a driveway expansion, the NZ zone, town of Windsor, and that was at the high school. Yes. Okay, thank you. All right, our first tonight is the site plan for 84 Ezra Silva Lane. Good evening for the record. My name is TJ Baresi. I'm a licensed engineer in Lance Rayor. I'm the principal owner of Baresi Associates right here in Windsor. Office located on Pequonic Avenue. Tonight representing Ezra Silva Lane LLC, who's seeking a site plan permit to construct a 33,000 square foot industrial building related infrastructure at 84 Ezosilva. Subject property is a vacant piece of land located on the east side of Ezra Silva Lane, immediately south of number 60. If you're looking at sheet number one, it has this information on it. Applicants apply to construct a 33,000 square foot industrial use building with loading docks and related infrastructure. The size of 5.3 acre parcel of land located in the I-1 in general industrial district. Property can be accessed off as a silver lane or by way of an existing broken bituminous access drive across the lane of number 60. Look at sheet number two of the existing conditions. Properties predominantly rectangular in shape, has approximately 200 feet of frontage and more than a thousand feet of depth. Parcel is mostly open and vacant. The westerly 140 feet of property adjacent to Ezosilva is vegetated. As you can see, it says wooded vegetation. Central portion is a formally wooded open area, which is approximately 600 feet in depth. The central portion is partially developed with an outdoor storage area in a storm detention system, which was primitive for the developed portion of number 60 as a silver lane, which is immediately to our north. Topographically it's generally flat. There is a gentle easterly and southerly slope away from Ezra Silva towards the abutta to the south and an existing weltland corridor to the east. As I mentioned, there is an in the wetland soils on the property. A north-south wetland corridor exists along the rear property line.