Blakeman Construction LLC has appealed a Planning and Zoning denial for its plans to build 10 townhouses on Old Drive.
The appeal was filed at Superior Court in Milford on Aug. 24.
Calling the denial “illegal, arbitrary, capricious and unsupported by the record of evidence,” Blakeman Construction asked the court to reverse the Planning and Zoning Commission denial and allow the company to build the homes.
The plans called for building two structures with five units in each one on the 4.33 acre lot in a multi-family zone.
The street is off Route 67, near the new Walgreens.
The Planning and Zoning Commission denied the proposal at its meeting Aug. 12, after holding a public hearing on the plans.
The commission did not believe the neighborhood would have adequate access for emergency vehicles, and feared blasting and construction traffic the project would create, according to minutes from that meeting.
The neighbors of the proposal — already frustrated with construction from the new Walgreens built on the same lot — turned out to the public hearings to oppose the project, according to articles in the New Haven Register.
But Blakeman Construction, represented by Stephen Bellis of the Pellegrino Law Firm in New Haven, said those reasons were not sufficient.
“The commission’s decision was not supported by substantial evidence in the record … (and) failed to state proper reasons on the record for its decision,” the appeal states.
The appeal also alleges that two new members of the Planning and Zoning Commission voted on the project when they hadn’t heard testimony about the application.
Blakeman had already received approval for the project from the Inland Wetlands Commission.
Take note OXFORD the cancer is spreading!
This year maybe next but the headlines will read multi-family housing coming along rt 67 traffic a nightmare and crime way up!
The writing is on the wall.
MADR heads to Florida, McKane left holding the bag.
eyes open in Oxford, please tell us how a set of 10 townhouses is somehow considered “multifamily housing which will increase traffic and crime” ?
I’m sure we’d all like to understand your “logic” on this issue.
The plans called for building two structures with five units in each one on the 4.33 acre lot in a multi-family zone
2 buildings with common walls different families in each unit- um multi-family units
at least 2 cars per unit possibly three if teens of driving age or older.
eyes open,
town houses are generally not considered multi-family dwellings, but I’ll give you that.
As far as traffic goes, 20-30 more cars is hardly an amount which, in and of themselves, would create traffic, so I fail to see how you came to the conclusion that there would be a “nightmare” of traffic if these homes were built.
And lastly, you carefully avoided addressing your comment about “crime going way up.” Is that because you assumed these would be “low income” houses, and that “black people” would be living there, and that you think “black people are criminals” ? Nah, that can’t be the reason you thought “crime would go way up.” You must have some other explanation you’d like to give us. We’re waiting with anticipation as to what it will be.
First off I mentioned oxford.
Both Seymour and Oxford will most likely end up with mixed use developments along rt. 67.
Seymour is clearing the way for the zone changes that will need to take place and has planes for the wire co property underway. Oxford is writing the regulations to allow it.
I take offence at your black comment and made no such accusations.
The rents for those developments will be low because any one that can afford higher rents would not choose to live behind a 24 hour business or in that area with a gas station and funky house with some weird thing on the roof.
Mixed use housing will be a disaster and would create a bad environment to bring up a family.
Children playing in parking lots and dumpsters will be something new to Oxford.
If you pay attention and get off this racial kick you are on 67 will become that side of town that no one wants to go to.
do you really think someone would pay big dollars to live there?