The Glastonbury Town Plan and Zoning Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a developer’s plan to use an 18th century colonial house in the downtown section of Main Street as the basis for a 10-unit housing complex on a 0.71 acre lot.
The house is at 2610 Main St., diagonally across from the CVS pharmacy and just south of the office building that houses the law firm of Jaconetta, Burnham & Wimer.
Joseph P. Jaconetta is listed in state records as manager both of the law firm and of the company proposing the multifamily complex, Jays & Tee LLC.
The development plan calls for preserving the front section of the existing house while removing a rear section on its north side. The remaining part of the house would be converted to two housing units, one upstairs and one downstairs, engineer Jonathan H. Sczurek told the commission.
A single townhouse would be added to the north side of the old house and two townhouses to its south side. Behind that expanded building, a new structure would consist of five more townhouses.
The new construction is designed to be consistent with the architectural style of the existing house. The proposal was altered based on comments from the town’s new Architectural and Site Design Review Committee, which considered it at three meetings, according to TPZ member Raymond Hassett.
The housing units in the rear building would have first-floor garages, as would one unit in the front building. A carport would accommodate four additional cars for residents of the front building, and there would be additional parking between the two buildings. Each housing unit would have two parking spaces, and there would be five additional spaces for visitors.
Most units in the complex would have two bedrooms. But the units in the rear building would have a first-floor room adjacent to the garage that could be used either as a den or a third bedroom, the plans show.
There would be a driveway to Main Street, and residents of the complex also would be able to use a driveway to New London Turnpike, shared with two other buildings.
