Shelton P&Z looks to nix condos, OK River Road medical building

SHELTON — Concerns about losing an industrial zone to housing has apparently doomed a riverfront condominium project along River Road.

The developers, 740 River Road LLC, had submitted two applications, one to create a Planned Development District designation on property listed as 740 River Road, the other to modify an already existing PDD at neighboring property at 762 River Road.

The plans for the 10-acre site — which sits next to the longvacant Autoswage Products Inc., part of the proposed Great River Water Club project presently before the Planning and Zoning Commission — call for 50 condominium units overlooking the Housatonic River and construction of a three-story, 30,000square-foot building listed as a medical office building that would face River Road.

Planning and Zoning, at its meeting Wednesday, asked staff to prepare a favorable resolution for construction of the medical building, but the condominiums application