741 Colonel Ledyard Highway

Ledyard, Connecticut 06339

TOWN OF LEDYARD

Economic Development Commission

Meeting Minutes - Final

Chairman

John Vincent

Regular Meeting

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

6:00 PM

Town Hall Annex - Hybrid Format

CALL TO ORDER

Chairman Vincent called the meeting to order at 6:02 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Town

Hall Annex Building. Chairman Vincent welcomed all to the Hybrid Meeting.

II.

ROLL CALL

Commissioner Carol Ann Schneider

Recording Secretary Michael Dreimiller

Chairperson John Vincent

Present

Commissioner Michael Cherry

Commissioner Peter Hary

Commissioner Richard Tashea

Commissioner Kevin Aherne

In addition, the following were present:

Director of Land Use & Planning, Elizabeth Burdick,

Mayor Fred Allyn III

III.

IV.

PRESENTATIONS / INFORMATIONAL ITEMS

None.

CORRESPONDANCE

Vincent gave an invoice for Eastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce membership renewal to

Burdick.

RESIDENTS & PROPERTY OWNER COMMENTS

Dave Schroeder spoke on the Rt. 12 Corridor Study sharing his thoughts on some of the

assumptions in the study. His complete comments are available in a separate file.

Dave Shroeder Public Comment October 7, 2025

Schroeder EDC Public Comment 10_7_2025

Attachments:

REPORTS

VI.

Mayor’s Report

He had a meeting with AdvanceCT who are actively looking for development and

redevelopment sites in Ledyard, which included Baldwin Hill Rd., the former Daticon building

on Kings Hwy, Cashman site (former Dow Chemical), and the Ocean State Job Lot pad sites.

AdvanceCT will reach out to them to see what the State can do to assist them with stimulating

some economic activity. Baldwin Hill site is about 150 acres and is being cutting it down to

grade to redevelop for smaller industrial users.

Dreimiller mentioned recently seeing a map of the Ocean State Job Lot property that only

showed a single pad. Cherry mentioned the Mullen Report included 2 or 3 next to Dunkin

Donuts and one over near Our Lady of Lourdes church.

Cherry asked if the Pfizer property on Stoddards Wharf Rd. was discussed. The Mayor said it

was not since Pfizer has not been interested in doing anything with those 221 acres. The Dow

property next to the Gales Ferry Fire House.

Dreimiller asked if the property next to the Gales Ferry Fire House had been split to give a large

portion of it to Avalonia as had been discussed. Mayor Allyn didn’t think that had been done yet.

Planner’s Report

Planning & Zoning Commission meets this Thursday for a public hearing for the property at 748

& 750 Colonel Ledyard Hwy for a special use permit application. They recently had a waterline

connected which requires a B100A review from the Ledge Light Health District so that may

delay the approval of the application.

Also on the agenda is the Habitat for HumanIty project at 8, 9, and 11 Colby Dr. consisting of 38

homes, 27 structures, combination of two family and single family, with multiple 2 bedroom, 3

bedroom, and some 4 bedroom single family homes. All of the infrastructure is in the road and

Colby Dr. will be completed all the way to Col. Ledyard Hwy. They appear to be in good shape

and a decision will be made.

Planning & Zoning Commission approved a commercial site at 5A Lorenz Industrial Parkway,

the lot in front of the old police department, back in January. Mylars were required to be

recorded within 90 days and they were not so they were given one extension of time. She

reached out to Peter Gardner who reached out to the property owner who has not responded to

him. They can’t extend the deadline unless the owner requests it. So, the P&Z will have to

formally void that approval. Gardner said he understands that there is somebody interested in

buying it and developing it themselves.

Wetlands has a 2 lot re-subdivision of three lots on Long Cove Rd. on their agenda this evening.

The existing buildings on the Kartway property have been located and existing conditions plans

have been filed on land records and the property owner has begun plans to demolish unsafe

structures. Cherry noted that the For Sale sign was gone. The owners combined that lot with the

lots at 119 and 129 Christy Hill Rd. into a single lot.

VII. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

EDC Regular Meeting Minutes of September 2, 2025

EDC Regular Meeting Agenda 9-2-2025

Attachments:

MOTION to approve the EDC Regular Meeting Minutes of September 2, 2025. Motion passed

by the following vote.

APPROVED AND SO DECLARED

RESULT:

Peter Hary

MOVER:

Richard Tashea

SECONDER:

Schneider Dreimiller Vincent Cherry Hary Tashea Aherne

AYE

VIII. OLD BUSINESS

Business Directory Update

No updates. Aherne noted that Babbling Bambinos Childcare in the old GF Elementary School.

Dreimiller noted that he did a test of the online New Listing Request form and asked Justin Dube

to let him know if he receives it but he hasn’t gotten a response yet. Hary said that he would

have the printed PDF version updated for the next meeting.

Business Directory Email Listing Progam

Aherne is gathering emails from online sources for town businesses so that he can send a

monthly newsletter to them. Dreimiller noted that the EDC had used an email list provided by

the town to send out a business survey a while back. He also asked if the newsletter could

include profiles of town businesses, which the EDC has previously discussed, and Aherne said

he could do that.

2024-2025 Annual Report: Discussion

EDC-Annual-Report-2024-2025 - Draft1

Attachments:

Dreimiller provided a first draft of the report. He asked that everyone review it and provide their

feedback to him before the next meeting.

CEDAS CERTIFICATION - Discussion

CEDAS Program-Ledyard EDC

Attachments:

2025 CEDAS Best Practice Questions

Dreimiller met with Town Planner Burdick to review the list of 32 questions on the CEDAS

application. They identified 13 that have already been completed, 3 more that may be done,

another 3 that should be easy to do - a Sell Sheet for the town, a flowchart for demonstrating the

require permit submittals, and a list of available properties.

Burdick mentioned the question about whether the town has a brand identity and marketing

strategy. Hary, Aherne, and Cherry volunteered to put something together.

Dreimiller noted that CEDAS membership renews in December so we should try to join then.

Burdick thought she might be able to find the $150 membership fee in her budget

Town of Ledyard EDC Brochure - Update

A motion was made by Commissioner Cherry seconded by Commissioner Tashea to approve the

edits to the Economic Development Reference Guide for Businesses. The motion carried by the

following vote:

APPROVED AND SO DECLARED

Michael Cherry

RESULT:

MOVER:

Richard Tashea

SECONDER:

Schneider Dreimiller Vincent Cherry Hary Tashea Aherne

AYE

XI.

NEW BUSINESS

STEAP Grant Application Discussion

Vincent asked about the status of a STEAP Grant application now that the Rt. 12 Corridor Study

and CT Main Street report have been delivered. Burdick noted that the application period opens

the first week of January and deadline is Feb. 20. She said that the Mayor, Public Works

director, and herself have been discussing some ideas. Mayor Allyn noted that the DOT would

require full engineering plans for anything that impacts Rt. 12, like sidewalks, before they will

approve our application. Cherry noted that when they looked at sidewalks on Rt. 12 back in 2010

for the Main Street Investment Fund the big issue was lack of existing drainage. They would

have to draft up a bid spec and write up the RFP which could take 4-6 months and will require

funding from somewhere. It will probably take at least 1 to 1.5 years to get the sidewalk project

application ready. Cherry asked is there was a smaller project that we could do now. Burdick

said that it was unlikely that anything could be done before 2026. Mayor Allyn suggested that a

LOTCIP grant might be better since those are bigger.

ADJOURNMENT

Our next meeting is scheduled for November 18th at 6:00 p.m. in the Town Hall Annex.

A motion was made by Commissioner Tashea seconded by Commissioner Hary to adjourn at

6:56 p.m. The motion carried by the following vote:

RESULT:

MOVER:

APPROVED AND SO DECLARED

Tashea

SECONDER: Hary

AYE:

ABSENT:

7 Aherne, Cherry, Dreimiller, Hary, Schneider, Tashea, and Vincent

None

For the Commission,

John Vincent, Chairman

Dated: October 7, 2025

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Chairman John Vincent

Economic Development Commission

DISCLAIMER: Although we try to be timely and accurate these are not official records of the

Town.