Friday, October 5, 2018
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Volume 12, Number 27
Trucking facility plan OK’d
TEAMWORK
By Bailey Wright The Citizen
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. hopes to begin work in the next year on a new facility on Dodge Avenue, according to town engineer Jonathan Bodwell.
The North Haven Rotary Club has donated a golf cart to the North Haven High School athletic department. The donation was Rotarian Brian Coughlin’s major project for his 2017-18 presidential year. Pictured: Brian Coughlin, Mark Minotti, Guy Casella, Mary Minotti, LuAnn Buono, Bernadette Casella, Bianca Coughlin, Charlie Coughlin, Catie Coughlin, Mary Jane Mulligan, Steven Blumenthal, Anita Anderson, Isabel Alvarez, Freddy, Ellie Levine Mulligan, Theresa Ranciato-Viele, Nick D'Ambrosia, Debbie Volain, Brian Havens, Philip Maturo and Gail D’Ambrosia.
On Monday, the Planning & Zoning Commission approved a site plan for the trucking company to build on 100 Dodge Ave., which is currently owned by Ulbrich Stainless Steels. See Trucking, A4
Apartments gain approval at Fantasia site By Bailey Wright The Citizen
Almost 90 new apartments are planned for the current site of the Fantasia banquet hall after all currently booked events are finished in 2020. On Monday, the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the plan after a public hearing. The special permit application was made by Fantasia owner Reno Russo. Under the proposal, the banquet and wedding hall at 404 Washington Ave. (Route 5) would be demolished after all currently booked events are finished around 2020, according to Silvana DeRosa, Russo’s daughter.
The Fantasia plan was presented by attorney Bernard Pellegrino, project engineer Matthew Niski and architect Robert Mangino.
Project engineers shrunk the size of the two proposed apartment buildings, which reduced the number of units by nine, to a total of 88. Designers used the additional space to add parking and create more of a buffer between the buildings and adjacent properties.
The site plan was approved with conditions that town staff work with the project engineers to establish which existing trees should be saved for a buffer zone between the rear of the “The parking spaces are Fantasia site and residential quite adequate now, it's a dramatic improvement areas. from the first application, The commission also speci- and that's appreciated,” fied that a high quality said PZC member Ronald wooden privacy fence Penton. should be used instead of the proposed vinyl fencing. Some neighbors felt the proposed tree plantings PZC Chairman Vern Carlwould not be enough of a son said the new site plan barrier because the trees adequately addressed park- would be too small at first. The Fantasia Wedding and Banquet Facility, 404 ing concerns raised by the Washington Ave., North Haven, seen here in July, would bwright@r ecord-jour nal.com commission at its Septem203-317-2316 become apartments under a proposal approved this week ber meeting. Twitter: @baileyfaywright by the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission.
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