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Canton Planning Director: Retail Application Process 'Exhausting'
Canton's economic development agency chairperson Kevin Jackson added that developers have to jump through "265 fiery hoops' to bring their business to town, according to the Hartford Business Journal.
Canton Community Development and Planning Director Neil Pade wants to make the permit application process easier for business developers, the Hartford Business Journal reports.
"We've identified 265 fiery hoops a developer potentially has to go through in Canton," said Economic Development Agency Chairperson Kevin Jackson, who accompanied Pade to an International Council of Shopping Center's Connecticut State Alliance Program in Middletown. "We're building a model that says if your design comes within our parameters, we will take out the rubber stamp and approve it."
The HBJ reports that many of the participants called for clearer zoning regulations to prevent lengthy special permit hearings.
Read the full story on the HBJ website.
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