A meeting of the Bridgeport Planning Commission was held Monday afternoon with one item of new business on the agenda: To consider the request of Genesis Partners, L.P. to amend the Charles Pointe Planned Unit Development.

 

“Basically, what they wanted to do is to amend their Planned Unit Development application to say that subdivisions can go through the City of Bridgeport Planning Department and can be done administratively,” said Community Development Director Andrea Kerr. “That Planned Unit Development has been approved by the Planning Commission and City Council.”

 

Without a Planned Unit Development, changing of subdivisions entails a process which includes public notice and a time period of at least 30 days.

 

In the case of Genesis Partners, which does have a PUD, the city has authority to sign off on subdivisions.

 

“But they still have to abide by our zoning and subdivision regulations,” Kerr said. “This doesn’t allow them to forfeit any of those regulations. It simply allows me to take their Planned Unit Development – which has already been divided into uses – and stamp off on the subdivisions.”

 

Only commercial development is allowed where indicated on the master plan and only residential development is allowed on areas marked off residential on the plan.

 

“This has already been laid out – certain uses for certain areas – and we will abide by those uses,” Kerr said.