Mystic Woods Again On IWA Agenda

GROTON — The “Mystic Woods” application is coming back before the Inland Wetlands Agency.

The official IWA agenda for the March 28, 2007, meeting lists “Mystic Woods, 0 Flanders Road” as second item under New Applications. The IWA meeting in the Town Hall Annex begins at 7:30 p.m.

Last October, the would-be developer of a 219-unit “Mystic Woods” Active Senior Housing complex on a 105-acre parcel on Fort Hill withdrew its application from the IWA, which was deliberating the project.

Mystic Woods had provoked intense opposition. Opponents have said the project would cause local flooding; pollute Fort Hill Brook, which runs into Mumford Cove; destroy wetland habitat; constitute unacceptably intense use of the land; and create severe traffic hazards on Route 1. The development would be located between Flanders Road on the east and Route 1 on the west.

At the time of the withdrawal, it was expected that the would-be developer, Hawthorne Development Partners LLC, of Woburn, Massachusetts, would be back with a new version of the project.

Harry Heller, attorney for Hawthorne, recently finished presenting a controversial 35-lot development in a historic area of Ledyard to the Ledyard Planning Commission. The developer in that case does business as “332 CLH LLC,” according to The Day.

Environmental Impact | March 25, 2007