Scoreboard, Greenhouse Projects Approved For West Hartford Schools

WEST HARTFORD, CT — The town's zoning department has approved two special permits for West Hartford public schools, one regarding an athletics scoreboard, the other a greenhouse.

The West Hartford Plan & Zoning Commission on March 3 was notified via town officials that the projects will be approved by the town planner's office based on local zoning regulations.

Those rules allow for "minor" applications to be decided by the planning office rather than going through the full public hearing/zoning board deliberation process.

As a result:

• Conard High School's softball field at 110 Beechwood Road will get a second scoreboard installed, namely, the old varsity baseball scoreboard.

Last year, the baseball field received a new scoreboard, sending the old one into storage.

This project aims to re-install that scoreboard, following a renovation, at the girl's softball field, re-using the old scoreboard.

• Sedgwick Middle School, meanwhile, will soon have an 8-foot-by-10-foot greenhouse erected at the school, which is located at 128 Sedgwick Road.

According to the project narrative, the school has had a garden club for the past three years, with participants growing a "multitude of garden vegetables."

With current growing done outdoors in the open, the greenhouse would increase the club's growing season and allow planting to begin earlier in the spring.

The school has received a foundation grant paying for the construction of the greenhouse.

Because both projects are small and take place on town-owned school property, zoning regulations permit such activity to be decided by the town's planning and zoning department with notification of such to the PZC.

For the minutes of the March 3 West Hartford Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, click on this link.

For all documents related to both projects, click on this link.