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Robert Ingvertsen

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TPZ Backs $14.3M School Air Upgrade

Jack Beckett·

The Farmington Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously to send a $14.3 million HVAC referendum for four elementary schools to Town Council, approved a Progressive sign that can't be illuminated, and let 114 dead arborvitae get a second life.

Four Commissioners and a Sign Guy

Jack Beckett·

Four of nine commissioners showed up. They elected a chair who declined the gavel, moved a $14.3 million school HVAC referendum in under ten minutes, approved a sign that can't be illuminated, and gave 114 dead arborvitae a second life. Monday in Farmington.

Signs, Stormwater, and the Slow Crawl Toward 10%

Jack Beckett·

**Farmington's TPZ cleared five applications Monday — frisbee camp lights at Miss Porter's, a stormwater overhaul for Horton Electric, and signs for the Warren Apartments. One commissioner picked a fight with the zoning code's definition of "frontage" and lost. Plus: cautiously good news on affordable housing, and a mixed-use project orphaned by two deaths finds new life.** 📋

Farmington TPZ Approves Reservation Road Staircase 6-1, With Davidson Dissenting

Henry Whitfield·

The Farmington Town Plan and Zoning Commission voted 6-1 Monday to approve an exterior staircase at 6 Reservation Road, with Commissioner Josh Davidson casting the only audible no vote in a sustained argument that the application is "an end run around our ADU regulations." Earlier in the meeting, Commissioner Bobby Canto had asked Davidson to recuse himself over social-media moderator work, then withdrew the request after staff confirmed the documents Davidson had referenced were publicly posted.

An Eagle Scout Candidate from Troop 170 Wants to Rebuild a Heritage Trail Kiosk. The TPZ Said Yes.

Jack Beckett·

A Life Scout in Troop 170 of Unionville presented his Eagle Scout project to the Farmington Town Plan and Zoning Commission on May 27: demolish the deteriorated wooden kiosk at the Red Oak Hill Crossing of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail and replace it with a covered, pressure-treated, shake-shingled successor. The commission approved unanimously. The chair, who is the mother of an Eagle Scout, added a remark that does not appear in the typical record.

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