Applicants seeking a zoning change to open a laundromat withdrew their request after Derby’s planning commission overwhelmingly recommended that the City Council deny it.
Property owner Dan Schmidt and his daughter, Lara Clark, requested a zone change for their property from institutional district to neighborhood business district, which would allow the laundromat strip. The roughly 53,000-square-foot property is at the northwest corner of Buckner Street and Red Powell Drive behind Duck Creek Park in a mixed residential and commercial area.
Schmidt and Clark have owned and operated a laundromat in Derby for three years, Clark said at the planning commission meeting, and the plan was to open another one in the lot they requested to change…