Business
Town Gives Conditional Approval to Convert Grove Street Loading Zone into Parking Spaces
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Despite reservations from the town body that typically weighs in on all parking matters in the downtown, officials have conditionally approved the conversion of a loading zone on Grove Street to three or four 2-hour spaces. Advocates for the change—proposed for the area near 33 Grove St., owned by Hobbs, Inc.—at the Dec. 17 Police Commission meeting downplayed objections such as the narrowness of the road, saying that question should be left to town engineers. A commercial real estate broker speaking in favor of the change also said it doesn’t make sense to preserve a loading zone for parents dropping off children for a music and arts therapy program on the opposite side of the street. “It’s across the street, so what mother in town—other than a moron—is going to drop their child off on the parking side of the street?” the broker, Anne Hannon, said during the meeting, held in the Training Room at the New Canaan Police Department.