Greenwich RTM To Consider $799K Downtown Traffic Signal Upgrade, Meeting Start Time Change, And More

GREENWICH, CT — The Greenwich Representative Town Meeting is scheduled to consider a $799,200 appropriation for traffic signal, pedestrian safety and accessibility improvements at a busy downtown intersection.

The RTM will meet at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, at the Greenwich High School Performing Arts Center. The meeting will also be accessible through Zoom.

The proposed project would replace the traffic signal at the intersection of Railroad Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, Bruce Park Drive and Steamboat Road.

According to the explanatory comments, Greenwich received a $657,653 grant through the state Department of Transportation’s Community Connectivity Grant Program, which is expected to cover about 82 percent of the construction costs.

The remaining $141,547 would cover work outside the grant’s scope, including milling and repaving the intersection, installing decorative crosswalks and restoring sidewalks affected by the project.

According to the explanatory comments, the project would include new mast arms, signal heads, accessible pedestrian pushbuttons, an advanced traffic controller and upgraded 360-degree video detection. It would also add dedicated turn phases for Bruce Park Drive and Steamboat Road and connect the signal to the town’s emergency preemption system.

The RTM is also scheduled to consider accepting a $34,487.42 state grant to help cover early voting costs. The money would be placed in an account used to pay poll workers.

According to the explanatory comments, early voting poll workers for the August primary and November election are expected to cost about $60,000, excluding staff overtime, transfers from other departments and supplies.

The town has already appropriated money for the costs, and the explanatory comments state that the grant funds are expected to remain unspent and return to the general fund at the end of the 2027 fiscal year.

Another item would expand the Strickland Road Local Historic District to include Cos Cob Mill Pond Park, a roughly 1.21-acre town-owned property at 0 Strickland Road.

According to the explanatory comments, the property contains Greenwich’s second-oldest cemetery. Its inclusion would complete an initiative that began in 1968, when residents petitioned the town to designate the area as a historic site.

The RTM may also amend the town ordinance governing school building committees. The proposal would establish one-year terms for committee chairs, vice chairs and clerks and require annual elections. Officers would remain eligible for reelection.

Seven nominees are scheduled for consideration as members of the Greenwich High School Natatorium, Tennis and Access Driveway Building Committee: Jeffrey Aser, Kaan Aslansan, Paul Constantin, Diane Chiappetta Fox, Dan Raffe, Jacqueline Nicole Sanderson and Steven Siler.

The RTM may also approve Frederick Lee as Greenwich’s representative to the Aquarion Water Authority’s Representative Policy Board.

According to the explanatory comments, the newly formed board was created to appoint the authority’s consumer affairs office and approve rate increases, capital projects, land sales and bond sales on behalf of the town.

Other agenda items include nominations to the Board of Human Services, Fair Rent Commission, Historic District Commission, Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency and Planning and Zoning Board of Appeals.

The RTM is also scheduled to consider moving the starting time for its full meetings to 7 p.m., beginning with the Oct. 26 meeting.

View more details on the upcoming meeting here.