Our firm performed the following services for this project: Parking Lot Layout & Design, Local, State, & Federal Land Use Permitting. Contact us today at (860) 354-9346 to have us assist you with your next project.

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36 Unit Apartment Complex

Our firm recently assisted Fort Hill Gardens, LLC to obtain all building permits as it relates to their proposed 36 unit apartment complex to be located along the bucolic Fort Hill road in New Milford, Connecticut.  The apartments will be 2 bedrooms each and include a complimentary dedicated parking space in the parking garages.  This project is one of the first projects in the state to have a “green roof.”  There is an underground parking garage which connects two of the apartment buildings.  In order to minimize impervious surfaces the area of the roof of that parking garage will be covered with succulent plants and other vegetation making it a “green roof.”  For more information about the opening date and rental information please contact Joe Enright at (203) 948-8677.

Our firm performed the following services for this project: Topographic Survey, ALTA Survey, Zoning Location Survey, Hydrology & Stormwater Management, Stormwater System Design, Culvert Analysis & Design, Sedimentation & Erosion Control Plans, Sanitary Sewer Design, Utility Layout, Driveway Design, Sight Distance Analysis, Parking Lot Layout & Design, Traffic Circulation & Studies, Cuts & Fills Analysis, Low Impact Development, Wetland Soil & Watercourse Delineation, Soil Investigation & Testing, Local, State, & Federal Land Use Permitting. Contact us today at (860) 354-9346 to have us assist you with your next project.

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Site Development Plan

Arthur Howland & Associates recently gained approvals for a challenging project in Sherman, Connecticut.  Our client wished to construct a garage in close proximity to a wetlands and watercourses.  With the help of landscape designer Rich Rosiello of Rosiello Designs we were able to obtain approvals to construct the garage to within 24 feet of the edge of wetlands.  We were able to demonstrate to the Commission through detailed Sedimentation and Erosion Control Plans and Construction Sequences that we would be able to prevent any short term or long term impacts to the wetlands.  The client will utilize gabion mattress blankets to provide for the long term stabilization of a steep watercourse bank which is currently eroding.

Our firm performed the following services for this project: Topographic Survey, AHydrology & Stormwater Management, Stormwater System Design, Sedimentation & Erosion Control Plans, Septic System Design, Driveway Design, Low Impact Development, Wetland Soil & Watercourse Delineation, Soil Investigation & Testing, Local, State, & Federal Land Use Permitting. Contact us today at (860) 354-9346 to have us assist you with your next project.

Click Here to learn more about the services we offer. Arthur H. Howland & Associates, P.C. is a full service civil engineering, land surveying, land use planning and environmental services firm. Contact us today at (860) 354-9346 to find out how we can assist you with your next project.

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Sherman Library Landscape Plan

Recently the Sherman Library received approval from the Town of Sherman Historic District Commission.  There was great input from each member of the Commission which led to improvements to the plan including the front vestibule, landscaping and handicapped accessibility.  The Library now moves onto Planning & Zoning where they hope to close the Public Hearing on March 4, 2010.

Our firm performed the following services for this project: Property Survey, Topographic Survey, Zoning Location Survey, Hydrology & Stormwater Management, Stormwater System Design, Sedimentation & Erosion Control Plans, Septic System Design, Utility Layout, Roadway Design, Driveway Design, Sight Distance Analysis, Parking Lot Layout & Design, Traffic Circulation & Studies, Cuts & Fills Analysis, Low Impact Development, Wetland Soil & Watercourse Delineation, Soil Investigation & Testing, Local, State, & Federal Land Use Permitting. Contact us today at (860) 354-9346 to have us assist you with your next project.

Click Here to learn more about the services we offer. Arthur H. Howland & Associates, P.C. is a full service civil engineering, land surveying, land use planning and environmental services firm. Contact us today at (860) 354-9346 to find out how we can assist you with your next project.

WASHINGTON-How should the town define an inn? Should such establishments once again be allowed on town roads, rather than restricted to sites along state roads?

Whether these questions will be answered separately, together or not at all remains to be seen, but the Zoning Commission continued debate on the topics at its meeting Monday, as it worked on a possible framework for inn regulations.”  Our current regulations say very little about inns, and they therefore don’t give much guid­ance to an applicant or to the commission,” Zoning Commission Chairman David Owen told The Litchfield County Times with regard to the need to move for­ward with the discussion-.

To the commission, Mr. Owen proposed defining inns broadly, and then adding specific require­ments for specific districts.  “In the business district, what we decide would be appropriate would be different than in a resi­dential district,” Mr. Owen told his fellow commissioners, adding that a necessary special permit would still allow the commission to use “discretionary judgment” regard­less of the district.

Currently, inns are only permit­ted in Washington by special per­mit, and based on a 2008 ruling, which grew out of a highly publi­cized luxury resort application for the former Wykeham Rise girls school property, the commission voted 4 to 1 to clarify language concerning where inns could be located.  A vague regulation that elic­ited different interpretations was revised to specifically say that inns could not be located alongside town roads.  Wykeham Road, which runs by the former girls school, is a town road. The vote to ban inns from • town roads did not affect the plans submitted by Matt Klauer, as his project was under consideration before the change was made. However, because the controversial application was ulti­mately denied based on concerns about the scope and impact of the plans, the Wykeham Rise property is no longer a possible site for an inn—at least for now.

On Monday, Mr. Owen issued a preliminary draft concept, for discussion only, on how the town should define an inn and what uses should be allowed by a special per­mit. In it, he has an inn as a “small country hotel, country resort, or similar facility” that would allow for various “low-intensity recre­ation” activities.  He noted that this would be consistent with the Mayflower Inn on Route 47, where the commis­sion has allowed spa and other resort-themed augmentations.

The commission didn’t offer any serious objections to Mr. Owen’s definition, nor did it resoundingly embrace it. Commission mem­ber Gary Fitzherbert, who voted in favor of Mr. Klauer’s plan for Wykeham Rise, said he wasn’t sure that the definition of an inn and one’s placement on a town road “needed to be discussed as one” issue.  In response, Mr. Owen indicated that he would prefer handling the matters congruently, particularly since he was the lone pro-vote for allowing inns on town roads,

Member Ralph Averill corrected Mr. Owen, saying the referenced vote “only changed the wording, not the regulation’s intent.” By that line of thinking, if the commis­sion soon permits inns, however they are defined, on town roads, it would be changing regulation’s wording and its intent.

As the process moves along, Mr. Owen thinks “we will at least be able to identify the areas of dis­agreement, and then try to work toward a proposal that the whole commission can live with.”  The Wykeham resort was denied 3 to 2 in December 2008, but when Ray Reich, who admit­tedly favored the resort proposal, replaced commissioner Valerie Friedman, who opposed the inn, via the November election, the issue was quickly revisited.  Mr. Klauer was present at the meeting Monday, but because there were no public hearing, audi­ence members were not permitted to participate in the discussion.

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