Zoning Board Approves Home-Operated Chabad House

Rabbi Sholom Deitsch got the go-ahead from a local zoning and planning board to operate Chabad of Ridgefield, Connecticut, in a two-family house where he lives with his family.

From the Ridgefield Press:

Deitsch hired a landscape architect to show how plantings can be used to block the view of his proposed religious education and assembly center in the residential zone.

The Planning and Zoning Commission made the request on Tuesday, April 5, at a public hearing and scheduled a continuation of the hearing for April 19.

Deitsch satisfied his neighbors and the zoning commissioners with plans by landscape architect Abigail Adams to plant rows of eight-foot-tall holly and his plan was approved.

“We’re good to go,” Deitsch said at the close of the hearing, after which the commissioners voted unanimously to approve his application, with conditions, for a special permit to operate his Chabad Ridgefield in a two-family house where he lives.

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