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Sandy Hook Subdivision Gets Wetlands Permit

BY ANDREW GOROSKO

The Conservation Commission has granted a wetlands construction permit for

Canterbury Woods, a proposed 25-house subdivision on 56 acres in Sandy Hook.

Commission members approved the application at a February 24 session. The

development proposal involves only a minimal amount of wetlands.

Developer Ralph Haberstroh of Green Knolls Lane is the applicant.

Canterbury Woods still requires a subdivision approval from the Planning and

Zoning Commission (P&Z). Such applications are subject to P&Z public hearings.

Canterbury Woods would be built on extensions of the existing Canterbury Lane

and Clapboard Ridge Road. Those roads are part of the sprawling Bennetts Farm

subdivision, which was built during the past several years on former farmland

east of Route 34.

The land proposed for Canterbury Woods is generally wooded. Under the

development plan, the existing Canterbury Lane would be extended and the

existing Clapboard Ridge Road would be looped to connect with Canterbury Lane.

A trail system would be provided on the property, as would 17 acres of open

space land for passive recreation.

The home building proposed for Canterbury Woods would be similar to the

construction that exists in the adjacent Bennetts Farm. Most of the Canterbury

Woods site has one-acre residential zoning.

The owners of record for the land are: HF, LLC; Milana, LLC; Susan Levison;

Lucy Carroll; and Bennetts Farm Associates.

The Canterbury Woods project is one of the latest home building proposals in a

local residential building boom focused on Sandy Hook, which has been underway

for the past several years.

Another proposed development with a similar number of homes, but much more

wetlands, will be the subject of a Conservation Commission public hearing

March 10 at 7:30 pm at Canaan House at Fairfield Hills. Toll Brothers is

proposing Newtown Hunt, a 26-lot development on 114 acres in Hawleyville. The

subdivision would be served by roads intersecting with Farrell Road and

Hawleyville Road.