For the second time within a month, the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) will be asked to approve the location for a gas station proposed for Hawleyville Center.

Applicant 13 Hawleyville Road LLC is seeking a certificate of location for its project, which is proposed for a 3.7-acre site at 13 Hawleyville Road (State Route 25), just south of eastbound Interstate 84’s Exit 9 off-ramp. The ZBA is scheduled to conduct a public hearing on the development application at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, March 6, at Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street.

The project would include a 4,400-square-foot gas station/convenience store structure on the site, which lies on the west side of Hawleyville Road, between Covered Bridge Road and the I-84 off-ramp. The property has been partially cleared of trees.

Applicable state law requires the ZBA to review sites proposed for gas stations to determine whether they are suitable for that use in terms of public safety and other factors.

The 3.7-acre property at 13 Hawleyville Road, where the gas station/convenience store would be built, was one of three components of a multi-pronged development proposal approved by the P&Z in 2015, under the terms of the P&Z’s Incentive Housing (IH-10) zoning regulations.

Project Specifics

At the 13 Hawleyville Road site, the developer also proposes construction of an approximately 3,350-square-foot freestanding canopy situated above five traffic islands, which would have gasoline pumps. The canopy, which would measure about 140 feet long by 24 feet wide, would lie parallel to Hawleyville Road.

A separate 720-square-foot freestanding canopy would be positioned above a diesel fuel pump. The site would have two 20,000-gallon underground fuel storage tanks. Engineering drawings for the project indicate 29 vehicle parking spaces.

Access points to the facility would be at Hawleyville Road and at Covered Bridge Road, about 120 feet west of its intersection with Hawleyville Road. About 29 percent of the site would be covered by impervious surfaces.

Because the March 6 ZBA session will be a public hearing, formal notice of the session will be mailed to property owners who have holdings within 500 feet of the site.

Developer 13 Hawleyville Road LLC, which plans to develop its site about 2,000 feet to the south, would do so under the terms of the modified HCDD zoning rules.

The 13 Hawleyville Road site has about 635 feet of frontage on Hawleyville Road, while the 26 Hawleyville Road site has about 225 feet of Hawleyville Road frontage.

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