WILTON — An empty storefront downtown may soon be filled. The Planning Board will consider a permit request for the space when it meets at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 5, at the Town Office.
Jamie Perry has applied for the permit to place multiple vendors in the former Shirt Tales Shop space at 351 Main St.
The new shop, Second Hand Rose, will rent space to local artisans and crafters to showcase their work. Spaces will also be available for antique and collectible items or “creatively re-purposed items,” Perry said.
If the permit is approved, the shop would open Monday, April 9, and from that point on be open six days a week, Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
After painting and sprucing up the downstairs portion of the two-story building, Perry has already lined up some vendors, including an artist who has paintings to display, some wooden furniture, someone who makes jewelry and more.
“It will be a little variety of different things,” she said of the shop.
Now seems like a good time to get started, as soon summer residents will be opening their camps on the lake and tourists will be coming through for the summer, she said.
In other business, the board will hold a public hearing to allow residents to respond to proposed changes to the town’s rules and ordinances. These will come before voters at the annual town meeting in June.
Articles proposed and to be discussed include a demolition permit requirement that would help make applicants aware of what they need to do, Code Enforcement Officer Paul Montague said.
Another article pertains to changing the zoning for the former primary school and the Regional School Unit 9 garage to a Downtown Village zone. They are currently in a Residential I zone.
Another article would change the Board of Appeals from seven members to five members with two alternates.
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