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Permit Issued to Rebuild at 22 Green Ave., Formerly Site of Historic Home

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The town has issued the building permit for a new, 4,700-square-foot home at 22 Green Ave.—site until this summer of a 1908 house that neighbors and preservationists had fought to spare the wrecking ball. During public hearings earlier this year, where the property owner that was seeking a special permit to exceed coverage in order to keep a barn on the property (which is still there), neighbors had spoken out against plans for the new home, calling it conspicuously large, out of character with the neighborhood and potentially creating a runoff problem. Preservationists said the two-story Colonial was historically significant. The new home will include five bedrooms, four full bathrooms, a half-bath, finished basement and attic with an office and bedroom, two fireplaces, 2-car garage and open patio, according to a building permit issued Thursday. It is to be built by Stonecrest Builders for $800,000, the permit said.

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New 5,158-Square-Foot Home Planned for Smith Ridge Road

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An application has come into the town for a new, 5,158-square-foot home at 713R Smith Ridge Road—a 5-acre lot that includes a 1946 ranch house, tax records show. The planned 1.5-story, single-family home will included 16 total rooms, according to a building permit application filed Aug. 20. It will have four bedrooms, living and dining rooms, study, family room, kitchen, porch, playroom, three full bathrooms, two half-baths, a laundry, basement and 2-car garage. In all, construction is expected to cost $1.1 million, the application said.

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New 7-Bedroom Home Planned for 300 South Ave.

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An application has come into the town to replace the four-bedroom, 1953 house at 300 South Ave. with a new seven-bedroom home. Located across the street from a very prominent yellow home, the restored former Brooks Sanatorium, the .34-acre lot at number 300 was sold in July for $1,115,000, tax records show. The new owner is Wilton-based Country Club Homes Inc.

The house planned for the lot, designed by Andrew Nuzzi Architects of Stamford, is to include seven full bathrooms, one half-bath, a finished attic with two bedrooms and a full bath, finished basement with a full bath, side covered porch, front covered stoop, open deck in rear and 2-car attached garage, according to the building permit application filed Thursday.

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Demo Permits Issued for Woodridge Drive, Briscoe Road, Skyview Lane

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The town issued demolition permits for projects at three homes last week, at 77 Woodridge Drive, 268 Briscoe Road and 114 Skyview Lane. The Skyview property, a 2-acre property whose trees appear to have been clear-cut in front, will see a 6,800-square-foot home go in. The demo permit for the existing home, a 1966 Colonial, was issued Tuesday. A 1957 Cape Code had stood on the Woodridge Drive property, a 2-acre lot that sold last month for $1,762,500, tax records show. It isn’t clear what’s planned there.

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All Eyes on Roger Sherman Inn with New Prospect of Sale, Development

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As news spread this week of the Roger Sherman Inn hitting the market at $6 million, one major question that preservationists and other locals are asking concerns the Oenoke Ridge property’s future—specifically, whether the inn itself could face the wrecking ball, to be replaced by a housing complex of some sort. Mimi Findlay, chairman emerita of the New Canaan Preservation Alliance notes that in recent years, New Canaanites have lost the Melba Inn on Park Street, Maples Inn on Oenoke and Silvermine Tavern. “So sad for New Canaan, architecturally, culturally and personally—where do my in-laws stay when visiting us?” Findlay told NewCanaanite.com in an email. Though the 1.8-acre property at 195 Oenoke Ridge Road cannot be subdivided because it’s in a one-acre zone, Town Planner Steve Kleppin said, concerns linger about development under the Affordable Housing Appeals Act, a state law that allows developers to skirt local planning decisions by designating a certain percentage of units in a proposed development as affordable. The law is triggered in municipalities where less than 10 percent of the housing stock is considered “affordable,” by the state’s definition.