The latest stop on the city’s journey to build a $164 million upper school of the future on a hilltop overlooking Kenosia Avenue is to go back to the way zoning was 40 years ago when the biggest thing on the west side was the Danbury Fair. Before the city can retrofit a 270,000-square-foot office complex on Apple Ridge Road into a middle school and high school academy for 1,400 students, the industrial-zoned property needs to revert to its 1979 status, when the 24 acres in question were residential, like the surrounding neighborhood. With the support of voters in June who approved $208 million in borrowing for the west side academy and other emergency classroom construction, the city has proposed what would be Connecticut’s first “wall-to-wall” academy to provide career and college training for every high school student. The next step is to get permission from the Zoning Commission to change the hilltop property’s use from light industrial to residential. A public hearing for all sides to be heard has been scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Election Night, Nov. 8.
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