An application to convert a single-family zone into a multi-family district in Danbury has been pulled from consideration before the Danbury Zoning Commission.  The proposal came for properties on Pembroke Road and was seeking to allow four times as much housing as is currently permitted.  Three parcels would have been combined into 5 acres at intersection of Pembroke and Padanaram roads, rezoned to allow as much as 22 units of multi-family housing. 

The Danbury Planning Department gave the proposal a negative recommendation. The Zoning Commission closed the public hearing at their meeting earlier this month.

The Danbury Zoning Commission is considering whether to reduce the distance required between liquor stores.  The current regulation is that there be 2,000 feet between establishments.  An application has been filed for a Division Street property and the application is being represent by the same attorney who sued the City nearly two decades ago on behalf of Stew Leonard's, which wanted a store near its Federal Road supermarket.  The Division Street proposal is 13-hundred feet from an existing package store.  The 2,000 foot distance was put in effect in the mid-1900s after Prohibition and a proliferation of bars and liquor stores on White Street. 

The City's Planning Director said in a report to the Commission that maintaining the current distance requirement will continue to help ensure neighborhoods remain protected against an undue concentration of package stores.  The public hearing into the application has been closed.