Proponents of a change must gather signatures from more than 50 percent of those owners. Under the current charter, opponents of a zoning or planning change can appeal it by gathering signatures from 20 percent of the property owners in the area in question. Meanwhile, a petition to support a proposed amendment to the city's zoning map or master plan that the Zoning Board has rejected would need signatures from 750 property owners anywhere in the city. Loeb said the difference between the number of signatures that proponents would need to collect versus opponents reflects an existing ratio in the charter. And once that project is finished, it’s already a bottleneck there, and it’s just going to get worse.”Ī Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, Shake Shack and Starbucks have been planned for a site in the Bull’s Head neighborhood. “But it's going to have a significant impact on a lot of people in Stamford, particularly people in North Stamford because there are only two ways down, basically either High Ridge or Long Ridge (roads).
“The construction that’s going on right now at Bull’s Head - there are very few people who were within 500 feet of that particular project,” Williams said. And so I think that the citywide provision is a good provision.”Īnother commission member, former city director of human resources Clemon Williams, gave an example. “I think we need to do a better job of explaining that at least the commission thought that, given the way the city is today, that people all over the city are concerned about congestion and zoning,” said Steven Loeb, a member of the commission who chaired a subcommittee on land use issues and is also a real estate attorney. Tuesday evening, the commission chose not to amend the proposed language on that item.
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