A revised plan for a four-story, 80-unit apartment building in Pemberwick is larger than the original. The proposal at 200 Pemberwick Road, filed with Greenwich's Planning & Zoning Commission, drops four units but adds more than 8,000 square feet of total building area.

The new application cuts the unit count from the 84-unit plan submitted for pre-application review in January, Patch reported. But the building's total footprint grew to 136,121 square feet from 127,774, and gross floor area jumped to 92,611 square feet from 84,264, according to application documents.

Twenty-four of the 80 units, or 30%, would be designated affordable. The building would include a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments above a podium parking garage, as Greenwich Time reported. If approved, it would stand 80 feet tall.

The project would rise on what is now a parking lot at the corner of Comly Avenue and Pemberwick Road, next to existing office buildings totaling 43,150 square feet. Those offices would remain.

Attorney Chip Haslun, who represents the applicant, 200 Pemberwick Road REO LLC & 0 Comly Avenue LLC, said in submitted documents that the revised plan followed discussions with the Greenwich Affordable Housing Trust Fund. He described it as an "assisted housing development" aligned with the 2019 Plan of Conservation and Development.

The owners proposed 210 total parking spaces, with 57 reserved for residents and 69 of the remaining 153 shared between office and residential use, according to Haslun's filing.

The application was filed under Connecticut's Section 8-30g affordable housing statute, enacted in 1989. The law limits the grounds on which towns can reject qualifying housing developments. Under 8-30g, a municipality must prove a project poses a specific health or safety threat that outweighs the need for affordable housing, according to the town's explanation of the statute.

Greenwich currently has about 5.3% of its housing stock classified as affordable, well below the state's 10% requirement.

Residents submitted written objections to the Planning & Zoning Commission ahead of a March 3 meeting on the original plan, raising concerns about height, flooding, traffic and pedestrian safety.

"Adding additional buildings to this area raises serious concerns about worsening an already longstanding and unresolved flooding problem," Comly Avenue resident Tara Orlando wrote to the commission. She cited speeding on Comly Avenue and a lack of sidewalks on Pemberwick Road.

Resident Wayne Kelly wrote that the "proposed building not in character with neighborhood, at least two stories too high."

The property sits across from the Byram River, in an area neighbors say has flooded for more than a century. The site has seen previous development proposals that never moved forward, according to Greenwich Time. Town records list Kyle O'Hehir as the principal of the property-owning LLCs.

The Planning & Zoning Commission has not yet scheduled a hearing date. Residents can view meeting agendas on the town's Planning & Zoning page.