Stonington zoning board schedules public hearings on two major projects
Mystic — The Stonington Planning and Zoning Commission has scheduled a Jan. 17 public hearing on a proposed master plan needed to develop the Perkins Farm into a medical/research campus with townhouses and apartments.
The hearing is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Mystic Middle School and the commission tentatively has planned to meet the next evening, Jan. 18, if it needs to complete the hearing.
The commission also has slated a Feb. 21 hearing on another major project, Greylock Property Group’s master plan application to the develop the former Mystic Color Lab site into 42 luxury condominiums.
Over the past two decades, attempts have been made to develop both sites but no projects were ever built.
David Lattizori has filed an application for a master plan to develop nearly half of the 71 acres of the former Perkins Farm off Jerry Browne Road. If built, the project would become the town’s largest taxpayer, generating an estimated $1.3 million in annual tax revenue for the town, about as much as the town’s two current biggest taxpayers, Stone Ridge and Connecticut Light & Power, now pay combined. According to the application, it also would generate several hundred permanent jobs.
Lattizori’s master plan calls for developing 32 acres of the farm and preserving 39 acres, most of which would be along Jerry Browne Road and block a view of the buildings from the street and the Stone Ridge retirement community.
The plan calls for 90,000 square feet of medical office space in five one- and two-story buildings. Additionally, there would be one 10,000-square-foot academic research building. The plan also calls for one apartment building with 121 units and 50 three-bedroom townhouses spread among 13 buildings.
If the commission approves the master plan application, Lattizori then would have to submit a detailed site plan for approval, which would require another hearing.
At the five-acre color lab site, the Mystic Harbor Landing project calls for three-story buildings placed around a central courtyard. Like the Perkins Farm project, if the commission approves its master plan, developer Greylock Property Group then would have to seek site plan approval.
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