To be inserted     in the Westport News

              On:   June 27, 2014

                Friday

LEGAL NOTICE OF DECISION   

Notice is hereby given that at a meeting held on June 19, 2014, the Westport Planning and Zoning Commission took the following action:

1. APPROVED:  374 Post Road East,  Appl. #14-011 by Lawrence P. Weisman for property owned by Compo Acres, LLC c/o Equity One Realty for a Site Plan approval for reconfiguration of parking layout and building alterations in a GBD/A zone, PID #D09122000. 
2. APPROVED:  101 Harbor Road, Appl. #14-018 Alan R. Spirer for property owned by 101 Harbor Road, LLC for a CAM Site Plan approval for a new single family dwelling in a Res A zone, PID #B02139000. 
3. ADOPTED:  Amendment #676, Appl. #14-021 by the Westport Planning and Zoning Commission for a text amendment to the zoning regulations to modify §32-8 (Excavation & Fill), to delete §32-8.1 and §32-8.1.1 (Exemptions) and add new section, §32-8.1 (Activities that require and Excavation & Fill Permit and Exempt Activities which provides “…that all regrading of properties regardless of the amount of disturbance or quantity of material shall require a Site Plan and Special Permit application except noted below…”and to create a new section §32-8.1.2 (Exemptions) which lists nine (9) different types of activities which are exempt from Excavation and Fill applications but must still adhere to the standards in sections §32-8.2 and §32-8.3, to modify §32-8.2.2 to add the word “percentage” after Total Coverage and Building Coverage, to modify §32-8.2.7 (Natural Existing Grades) to add a requirement that Excavation and Fill applications cannot be used to establish a new average grade for the purpose of measuring building height unless five years have passed since the date of approval, to modify §32-8.3.2 (Standards) to reduce manmade earth slopes to no greater than five horizontal to one vertical (20 %) slopes unless approved by the Town Engineer and to allow exemptions for grading within five feet of the property line for driveways and subdivision roads, to modify §32-8.3.3 (Standards) to change the word “excavating” to “excavated”, to add §32-8.3.10, to relocate a standard that was deleted from §32-8.1.4 regarding the pumping of ground water to a surface discharge point, to modify §32-8.4 (Restoration Plan) to delete the words “as part of a Site Plan” and to modify  §32-8.5 (Considerations Affecting Approval) to add the words “and Special Permit Review as found in §44-5 and §44-6”.  Effective date:  6/27/14

The above items were granted/approved/denied with conditions, which are on file with the Planning and Zoning Office in Town Hall at 110 Myrtle Avenue

Dated at Westport, Connecticut this 27^th day of June

Chip Stephens, Chairman, Planning and Zoning Commission