GUILFORD, CT — The Planning & Zoning Commission approved, with conditions, a town change to its zoning definitions to match Public Act 25-1 and four property applications at its virtual meeting Wednesday, Nov. 4, according to its notice of decision.
Planning & Zoning Commission
The commission approved, with conditions:
- The text amendment from Town Planner Anne Hartjen, on the town's behalf, bringing the regulations' definitions in line with the state law.
- A special permit for an accessory structure larger than 750 square feet at 41 Mulberry Point Road.
- Two approvals on Trolley Road: a special permit to enlarge a nonconforming structure, and site plan and coastal site plan approval to rebuild an existing garage.
- Site plan and coastal site plan approval to rebuild a single-family home at 31 Cunningham Drive.
Hearing notices also named applications at 236 Church Street, 470 County Road and 1509 Little Meadow Road, including accessory apartments and a two-lot resubdivision; none of those was among the decisions posted Nov. 5.
Board of Selectmen
The selectmen's meeting Monday, Nov. 2, at 8:30 a.m. opened with a special town meeting on two questions: waiving the town's right of first refusal so the Bluff Head open-space parcel offered by the Bluff Head Estates Association can go to the Guilford Land Conservation Trust, and accepting a 19,118-square-foot conservation easement at 217 Saddle Hill Road.
The agenda also held a public hearing and possible vote on changing the town's farm property tax exemption, and these purchases:
- $23,824 to Happy Jack's Door & Service to replace doors at Fire Headquarters.
- $66,000 for ambulance ventilators from Hamilton Medical Inc., a sole source.
- $80,000 for 1,145 tons of road salt from Morton on the state contract for the 2026-27 winter.
- $7,142.39 for a snow pusher box for a loader, $9,990 for a trailer to haul the parks department's new mower, $9,797.42 for a commercial stove at the Community Center and $11,459.44 for fertilizer and lime.
The selectmen were also to set a Nov. 16 public hearing on changes to the town's peddling and soliciting ordinance. Minutes had not been posted as of Friday, Nov. 6.