Date: Fri 14-Mar-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

Quick Words:

P&Z-Bridgeport-Hydraulic

Full Text:

P&Z Endorses Sale Of Utility Land

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members have endorsed a public utility

company's proposal to sell some utility-owned surplus land off Huntingtown

Road to a private individual.

Governments are given the first opportunity to purchase surplus land which

public utilities want to sell. If the government declines such a purchase, a

sale may then be made to an individual.

In endorsing the sale of more than 16 acres by Bridgeport Hydraulic Company to

Timothy Currier of Huntingtown Road for $70,000, the P&Z has indicated it has

no interest in having the town acquire the wet property. The P&Z endorsed the

sale to Mr Currier on March 6.

Last year, after the town expressed no interest in buying acreage on the

sweeping curve of Route 302 near Hattertown Road from the Connecticut Light

and Power Company, private individuals bought that land and subdivided it.

That land is now known as Pinnacle Ridge.

Bridgeport Hydraulic's proposal to sell the Huntingtown Road land is under

review by the state Department of Public Utility Control.

The land lies to the east of Huntingtown Road. It is a long, narrow parcel.

It's expected that at some point in the future the property will be submitted

to the P&Z as part of a subdivision application, P&Z Chairman John DeFilippe

told P&Z members March 6.