The New Canaan Building Department on Oct. 28 received an application for a new 9,967-square-foot home on Greenley Road.
The six bedroom home at 255 Greenley Road will include seven full bathrooms, one half-bath, sauna, rec room, theater and wine room and a 3-bay garage, according to a building permit application.
It will cost about $1,680,000 to build, the application said.
The contractor on the job is Westport-based Barrington Building Company LLC, the architect RO & CO Architecture LLC of Stamford.
The vacant 2.17-acre lot sold for $1,437,500 in August, property tax records show.
Quick question for the group here : a month or so ago it was reported in this publication that 255 Greenley had been divided (and sold) into 4 lots to local investors / developers. I’m wondering if this one big house is the plan for the entire street address, or is just the first of 3 other houses to arrive on the scene? Asking for a neighborhood.
It appears that the buyer of the existing house at 291 Greenley (on 2.95 acres) bought another lot (2.55 acres) as well. The 2 other lots will be developed: 255 Greenley (2.16 acres), shown here, and 277 Greenley (2.46 acres).
I was startled on a hike yesterday with my dog in the Watson-Symington woodlands to see bulldozers already in place and that a large swath of forest has been clearcut, maybe 50 yards from the southern edge of the woodlands. I’m awfully disappointed at the lack of transparency about these construction projects from the real estate broker who engineered the deal—while I’m sure it’s all legally on the up-and-up, it greatly impacts our street and our daily lives. There goes, as they say, the neighborhood.
Laura and Land Trusters,
You and the contractors should be aware that the northern 1/2 acre of woodlands of the two lots under development nearest to the Watson Symington trail are protected by a conservation easement held by the Town. There should not be bulldozers working or traversing on those easements which were established when the bigger property was subdivided into four lots.
Most builders are clear cutting the lots for McMansions. The neighborhoods have been changing for a long time now as we value landscaping more than nature, thereby contributing to global warming even further by removing the carbon sink while adding more carbon from mowers and blowers.
Forgive my ignorance, but is it legal for a property owner to cut all their trees down even if their plans for eventual construction aren’t yet approved, or even submitted? I.e. if you buy land with a bunch of trees on it you can cut them down just because? Or does P&Z weigh in on something like that? I agree with your assessment that it seems sterile, bland landscaping somehow won out over nature. And ironic that it takes a lot of diesel smoke-billowing bulldozers to do the job.