P&Z’s demand that applicants pay for outside consultants representing the commission, not the applicant, on tap this Tuesday night. We wrote about this last week, but just a reminder.
Relatively few projects require technical assistance, said [P&Z head ] Fox, most being large scale applications — proposed renovations to the Eagle Hill School, Stanwich School and Convent of the Sacred Heart among them.
This is how the P&Z works: start small, then mash the pedal down. Floor Area Ratio requirements, annoying when first implemented, are now, fifteen years on, a Byzantine labyrinth that require architects and surveyors involvement for the smallest of projects. The “50% rule” for houses in the coastal area management zones, made even more onerous just two months ago despite a public hearing where residents fiercely opposed the commission’s intention, are back, also this Tuesday, for a doubling down to 25%.
“We want to get the public’s input before going ahead with these changes,” Town Planner Diane Fox tells the Greenwich Time. She and her staff haven’t heeded the public’s input in the decade she’s run the place and there’s absolutely no reason to believe that she will now.
Will Peter Tesei be at the hearing to hear “public input”? Like Fox, he has no record of doing so before and it’s unlikely he will on Tuesday. Aside from taking down a salary, what exactly does our First Selectman do?