Zoners to review Route 7 contractors yard plan

A heavily disputed piece of commercial property that borders The Regency at Ridgefield on Route 7 will receive public hearing Tuesday, Nov. 5, when the Planning and Zoning Commission reviews plans for a proposed contractors yard that would include four buildings and 14 units on the three-acre site.

Last year, the neighbors at the Regency opposed and ultimately chased away the proposed relocation of Danbury-based Ergotech Inc. a light manufacturing facility to the site, which is on the east side of Route 7 directly across from Little Pond.

This time around, residents of the condominium complex face the development of a facility that contractors would work out of and use to store construction equipment.

It wont come quietly or quickly.

The longtime owner of the site, Larry Leary Development LLC, is applying for a pair of special permits at the towns planning office one for a multi-unit contractors yard and another for rock crushing, excavation and earth processing in excess of 2,000 cycles that would apply temporarily during construction.

The latter application is for the removal 40,000 cubic yards of material from the steeply sloped site.

The 2.97-acre site is wedged between Route 7 and the 73-unit Regency complex, which is to the east and north of the commercially zoned Leary property. The Regency condominiums are at a considerably higher elevation than the Route 7 frontage of the site, where development of the contractors yard is planned.

Blasting, or ripping of rock, should last one to two weeks, which would be followed by rock processing and material removing for another one to two weeks.

That schedule would then be repeated over a six-month period.

The application estimates that 2,300 trips would be required before all of the material was completely removed and the rest of the construction could begin.

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Zoners to review Route 7 contractors yard plan