The hearing on the Carpionato Group’s plans for a 40,000-square-foot Whole Foods in Old Saybrook begins at 7 p.m. on Monday. The application for the high-end supermarket includes a larger makeover of the Oyster River Shopping Center, which is at the intersection of Spencer Plains Road and Route 1. The plans for the shopping center makeover include space for a 3,600-square-foot medical office and four retail spaces that are between 4,100 and 8,100 square feet. Because homes and businesses in Old Saybrook use septic systems to dispose of sewage, the supermarket and all of the other businesses that are part of the Oyster River shopping center will be served by an on-site leaching field. The store, if approved, would be Whole Foods’ first among the well-heeled communities that are part of Connecticut’s shoreline east of New Haven.
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