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Ox Ridge Hunt Club ‘Reinventing’ Itself Into a Riding and Racquet Club

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Squash courts, a fitness club and renting space for a dozen large events a year would be added to Ox Ridge Hunt Club in an effort to expand the club’s membership, according to plans brought before the Planning and Zoning Commission this week. “They’re here tonight to talk about reinventing themselves,” town Planning Director Jeremy Ginsberg said in introductory comments to the commission at its public hearing on Tuesday. After selling to the town 16-plus acres of the 104-year-old club’s land off of Middlesex Road, the riding club is tearing down and replacing several of its old buildings. It’s also expanding the services it provides to members, speakers for the club told the P&Z commission. “This is our second century,” club President Richard Colligan told the P&Z.

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Selectmen on Verge of Buying 16+ Acres From Ox Ridge Hunt Club [UPDATED]

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Original article: 4:39 p.m., Friday: Darien town government may buy about 16.3 acres of land from Ox Ridge Hunt Club, according to an item on the agenda for Monday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting. — NOW UPDATED below, with information from First Selectman Jayme Stevenson —

Not much information on the possible sale could be gathered late Friday afternoon, after this item was found on the board’s meeting agenda, just published on the town government website:
Discuss and Take Action on a Resolution for the purchase of 16.296 +/- acres of land from the Ox Ridge Hunt Club, Inc. at 512 Middlesex Road and Authorizing the Issuance of Bonds, Notes or Other Obligations of the Town to Meet Said Appropriation
Among the questions not yet known publicly: the price of the land, where it is on the Ox Ridge Hunt Club property, why the club is willing to sell it to the town, what the land would be or might be used for. First Selectman Jayme Stevenson was not immediately available for comment shortly after 4 p.m. [see update below]. Town Administrator Kathleen Buch was not in the office, and a receptionist at the Ox Ridge Hunt Club said an official there was not expected to be available until Monday. An executive session of the Board of Selectmen is scheduled for 6:15 p.m., before the public meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday.