Selectmen approve parking ordinances, building committee term limits

Board of Selectmen · Meeting of February 26, 2026

Greenwich Selectmen approve two parking ordinances, reject an extra flag raising. The Board of Selectmen, meeting Feb. 26 with First Selectman Fred Camillo, Selectwoman Lauren Rabin and Selectwoman Rachel Khanna, voted 3-0 to add two-hour parking on Lochland Avenue and to let Parking Services ticket non-electric vehicles in Town Hall's EV charging spots. Deputy Chief James Bonney said "the lesson is you can't please everyone" after Byram residents complained about snow-emergency enforcement during a weekend blizzard.

The board also approved, 3-0, one-year term limits for town building committee officers, and closed a public hearing on a noise variance for Burning Tree Country Club. A motion to raise a flag for Gen. Israel Putnam's ride died for lack of a second.

Khanna urged residents to oppose a state bill she called "a really bad bill" and a plan to regionalize GCTV Channel 79 before the Feb. 27 comment deadline.

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Source: the Board of Selectmen meeting of February 26, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

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GREENWICH — February 26, 2026 — The Board of Selectmen voted unanimously Thursday to approve two changes to the town's parking ordinances and a new rule requiring annual elections for officers on town building committees, while a motion to raise a flag marking Gen. Israel Putnam's Revolutionary War ride died for lack of a second.

First Selectman Fred Camillo presided over the meeting, joined by Selectwoman Lauren Rabin, who participated by phone, and Selectwoman Rachel Khanna. The board also closed a public hearing on a noise ordinance variance for Burning Tree Country Club and heard an initial presentation on selling seven town-owned properties acquired through tax lien foreclosures.

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The meeting opened with Camillo thanking the Department of Public Works, the Greenwich Police Department, the Fire Department, GEMS and Emergency Management Director Joseph Laucella for their response to a weekend blizzard. Deputy Chief of Police James Bonney, director of the Department of Parking Services, told the board his officers had gone door to door in Byram warning residents to move vehicles off snow emergency routes, drawing complaints in the process.

"The lesson is you can't please everyone," Bonney said. "We did the best we could."

Bonney then won approval, on a second read, for an amendment to traffic ordinance Schedule IV establishing two-hour parking on Lochland Avenue, a change residents had sought after commuters and nearby employees were parking there for full days. The board also approved, on a first read with the second read waived, an amendment to Schedule XIII allowing Parking Services to ticket or order the removal of non-electric vehicles from the town's electric vehicle charging spaces at Town Hall. Bonney said the town now has five EV charging stations on town property, including three dedicated to the Parking Services fleet.

"It was like pulling teeth to get the first one," Camillo said of the charging spaces.

The board declined to act on a request from resident David Wold to raise a flag at Town Hall on Feb. 26 marking Gen. Israel Putnam's famous ride down the Post Road. Khanna made the motion, but after Camillo asked repeatedly, no one seconded it. Camillo said the town's official seal already depicts Putnam and flies daily.

"I don't want to make a mockery and dilute the importance of these flag raisings by adding more and more and more on," Camillo said.

On a second read, the board unanimously approved an ordinance change, first proposed by Representative Town Meeting Moderator Alexis Voulgaris, setting one-year terms for chairs, vice chairs and clerks of town building committees, with annual re-election. Rabin said the change stemmed from a "no confidence" dispute involving officers on one committee. The board also closed, without objection, a public hearing on a noise variance sought by Burning Tree Country Club, with Town Attorney Barbara Schellenberg advising the board to state its reasoning for the record; a written decision is due within 30 days.

In new business, Schellenberg, appearing on behalf of Attorney Owen Weaver, outlined the process for selling seven properties the town acquired through tax lien foreclosure judgments over the past year. She said Town Administrator Kate Buch was reaching out to other Connecticut municipalities, including Stamford, for guidance, and that a formal vote on advertising and referring the properties to the Planning and Zoning Commission would come at a second read in March.

Khanna used her update to announce opposition to two pending state matters: Senate Bill 151, which she said would curb local zoning control, and a proposal before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to fold GCTV Channel 79 into a regional cable channel.

"It's a really bad bill," Khanna said of the zoning proposal, urging residents to submit testimony against the PURA plan to pura.executivesecretary@ct.gov, citing docket 25-09-07, before the Feb. 27 comment deadline.

Why It Matters

The parking ordinance changes give Parking Services enforcement authority it previously lacked, both for the new Lochland Avenue signage sought by residents tired of commuter parking and for the town's EV charging spaces at Town Hall. The building committee term-limit change gives future panels, including the Riverside School Building Committee now getting underway, a formal mechanism to replace officers who lose members' confidence, addressing a dispute Rabin said had proven difficult to resolve under the old rules.

The foreclosed-property sale, still in its early stages, could bring seven parcels back onto the tax rolls; a second board vote and a Planning and Zoning Commission review are still required before any sale can proceed, with the next formal vote expected in March.

Key Motions & Votes

- Vote: Approval of minutes, Special Meeting of Feb. 10, 2026 Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3 - Vote: Approval of minutes, Regular Meeting of Feb. 12, 2026 Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3 - Vote: Approval of minutes, Emergency Meeting of Feb. 21, 2026 Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3 - Vote: Amendment to traffic ordinance Schedule IV, Two-Hour Parking: Timed (Lochland Avenue) Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3 - Action: Motion to raise flag for Feb. 26, 2026 marking Gen. Israel Putnam's ride — Failed for lack of a second - Vote: Ordinance change placing term limits on officers of town building committees Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3 - Vote: Closure of public hearing on noise ordinance variance request from Burning Tree Country Club Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3 - Vote: Amendment to traffic ordinance Schedule XIII, Reserved Parking (EV charging stations) Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3 - Action: Presentation on referral of foreclosed properties to Planning and Zoning Commission for municipal improvement status — Continued to March meeting for second read and vote - Vote: Adjournment Tally: For: 3, Against: 0, Abstain: 0, Total: 3

Source

Greenwich Community Television: Board of Selectmen meeting, February 26, 2026