Planning and Zoning denies 14-unit Parade Hill Road application
Planning and Zoning · Meeting of June 23, 2026
New Canaan Planning and Zoning denies 14-unit 8-30g housing application at 30 Parade Hill Road. The commission voted 9-0 after five meetings and three public hearings, finding developer Garden Homes Fund had not shown the project qualified as "assisted housing" under state law: a sales-tax exemption "does not constitute governmental assistance," and five vouchers pledged through the Housing Collective were "speculative" and non-binding. Developer Richard Friedman told commissioners at a May hearing he could reserve all 14 units for voucher holders but called it "poor public policy." The same night, the commission unanimously adopted seven zoning text and map amendments to the commercial and business zones, including a new parking-rounding rule and a height exception for sloped lots, ahead of a July 1 state deadline, and directed staff toward a second traffic-mitigation-zone map for public hearing next month.
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Source: the Planning and Zoning meeting of June 23, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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