Developer Wants to Modify Glendale Plan, Lift Age-Restricted Component

A Bridgeport-based developer who had planned on building 94, age-restricted homes off of Christian Street now wants to sell those homes to people of all ages.

Glendale Developers Inc. has applied to the Planning and Zoning Commission to modify its existing plan, which calls for 94 three-bedroom homes in a development called Glendale at Oxford. The proposal is to build 128 two-bedroom homes on top of the nine three-bedroom homes that have already been constructed on Glendale’s 72-acre parcel.

“The total numbers of bedrooms within the Glendale at Oxford community between the prior approved community (282 bedrooms) and the proposed modified community (283 bedrooms) is essentially the same,” attorney Christopher J. Smith, who represents Glendale, wrote in a letter to the Planning and Zoning Commission.

The number of homes and dwelling units don't seem to be as much of a sticking point with town officials as the proposed lifting of the age-restricted component. Currently, the homes are made for people age 55 and older. 

The proposal would also set aside 27 homes that would be sold as “affordable housing,” meaning the people who bought them would earn 80 percent of the median household income in Oxford. In Oxford, the median household income is $107,435, according to the town profile from the Connecticut Economic Resource Center. Eighty percent of that is $85,948.

The public will have an opportunity to hear and discuss the proposal during a hearing Tuesday night at 7 at Oxford Town Hall.