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NEW MILFORD — A local property owner hopes to bring more small businesses into town by building two new structures on the site of a former bee farm.
“I’ve got a lot of people that want to lease,” William Lavelle said about the proposed buildings. “We’re trying like heck to get them approved… whatever we put on that property is going to be very attractive for New Milford.”
A special permit and site plan application was submitted to the Zoning Commission on Oct. 23, proposing the construction of two new buildings on 568 Danbury Road “for use by tradesman and storage,” according to the site plan application. A public hearing for the application has been scheduled for Jan. 9.
William Lavelle, the owner of the property at 568 Danbury Road in New Milford, is seeking the Zoning Commission’s permission to build two new buildings at 568 Danbury Road, where he already added five industrial buildings. Pictured here is an image of one of the proposed buildings.
William LavelleLavelle, owner and manager of the lot, said he’s been involved in real estate for 50 years and is an independent realtor with RE/Max Experience, LLC., a real estate agency his son Scott Lavelle operates.
William Lavelle said the 568 Danbury Road property was the site of a former bee farm that closed about 30 years ago. He said he bought the barn on the property and added five industrial buildings to the site, which he said are used by a variety of small businesses, including woodworkers, electricians, carpenters and contractors.
Two of the property’s five buildings are used for storage only, while one building has office space on the second floor with garages on the first floor and one building has two residential unit, according to the application.
The lot on which Lavelle has proposed constructing two new buildings is 3.63 acres, the site plan application said. One building will be 100-by-48 feet and have four units, while the other building will be 36-by-60 feet and have three units, according to the application.
William Lavelle, the owner of the property at 568 Danbury Road in New Milford, is seeking the Zoning Commission’s permission to build two new buildings at 568 Danbury Road, where he already added five industrial buildings. Pictured here is the site plan for the project.
William LavelleLavelle said the two buildings will house “all different business” and will be built with a “barn style” that he believes will be attractive to town residents.
“There’s not a lot of barns left in New Milford, so we’re hoping to retain that image,” he said.
He said the buildings will be 5,000 square feet in total and will be divided into 1,000-square-foot sections for small businesses.
A drainage system has been designed “to reduce flows to preconstruction flows” and a sanitary sewage collection system has been designed with a pump station, according to the application. Approximately 1,300 cubic yards of excavation will be completed for the drainage system’s installation, the application said.
The application has also proposed adding 95 parking spaces and creating outside storage for the buildings.
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