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Fire Reports | December 28, 2017-January 3, 2018

Published: Jan 05, 2018 12:00 am

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:

Thursday, December 28: 1:10 pm, residential fire alarm, 19 Whippoorwill Hill Road, Hawleyville responded; 7:37 pm, investigation, 12 Quarry Ridge Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Friday, December 29: No calls listed.

Saturday, December 30: 9:49 am, motor vehicle accident with injury, I-84 West between Exits 13 and 11, Sandy Hook responded; 10:26 am, medical assist, Toddy Hill Road, Botsford responded; 10:48 am, motor vehicle accident with injury, I-84 West between Exits 10 and 9, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:23 am, motor vehicle accident with injury, Mile Hill Road South near Timber Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; 11:24 am, residential fire alarm, 4 Irvin Lane, Hawleyville responded; 7:00 pm, residential fire alarm, 11 Pinnacle Drive, Dodgingtown responded; 11:31 pm, hazardous condition, area of 286 South Main Street, Botsford responded.

Sunday, December 31: 4:48 am, motor vehicle accident with injury, Dinglebrook Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:26 pm, medical assist, Church Hill Road, Sand Hook responded.

Monday, January 1: 12:54 am, residential fire alarm, 27 Brushy Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 4:26 am, wires down, area of 237 Berkshire Road, Sandy Hook responded; 8:47 am, residential fire alarm, 3 Grace Moore Road, Sandy Hook and Botsford responded; 11:38 am, pumping detail, 109 South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 1:20 pm, commercial fire alarm, 139 Toddy Hill Road, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, January 2: 8:02 am, motor vehicle accident with injury, I-84 West between Exits 11 and 10, Sandy Hook responded; 10:12 am, motor vehicle accident with injury, area of 220 South Main Street, Botsford responded; 12:18 pm, commercial fire alarm, 3 Nunnawauk Road 27D, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 3:41 pm, commercial fire alarm, 39 Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded.

Wednesday, January 3: 7:59ÃÂ am, motor vehicle accident with injury, area of South Main Street at Elizabeth Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 10:29ÃÂ am, odor of gas inside, 4 Wildlife Drive, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 11:39ÃÂ am, motor vehicle accident with injury, area of 43 Poverty Hollow Road, Dodgingtown and Hawleyville responded; 12:25ÃÂ pm, odor of gas inside, 46 Birch Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 2:40ÃÂ pm, commercial fire alarm, 71 South Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded.

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How do you propose tapping the brakes, Dave? 8-30g already trumps any local regulations- you don't have a brake pedal to push. Brookfield, Trumbull and now Ridgefield have a clear case for a moratorium based on the development (thanks to 8-30g) that has already occurred. I don't see a clear case for Newtown to request a moratorium... yet.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

Nobody is suggesting shutting the doors on new neighbors. What neighboring towns are doing, and what we should be doing too, is to tap the brakes on all of the multi-family residential development proposals so that we can spend 6 months updating our regulations such that if you want to build dense residential housing here, XX percent of it needs to be affordable (we will never make any headway on increasing our percentage of affordable housing otherwise, short of 8-30g), and the rest needs to be done in as low an impact manner as possible. Low impact on traffic, health & safety, the environment and on the cost of town services.

Hey, there you go! Richard solved it. Thanks, that seems so easy- we'll just get rid of the 2nd amendment and the Supreme Court. Seriously, the 2nd amendment doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The Supreme Court doesn't create violent criminals or mental illness. The problem is not the tools, but the criminals & the mental illness. The state of Connecticut seems to be focused on the tools, like Richard, while ignoring the users of those tools.

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Ned, please familarize yourself with 8-30G, and then please share the unique flaws that may be helpful in formulating a denial An 8-30g project can be denied only on very narrow grounds – i.e., if it presents health, safety or other concerns that exceed a town’s need for affordable housing. According to the TOG website, “projects cannot be rejected for incompatibility with a Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD); density; traffic congestion; height; aesthetics; concerns of neighbors or the community; and failure to comply with local zoning regulations.” 8-30g proposals are rarely denied by planning and zoning officials because the burden of proof on appeal is on the town. Appeals are costly, but a municipality can be successful in a court case if it has sufficiently established that the concerns leading to denial are factual and substantive.

P&Z Should Reject Vessel Proposal

The town should certainly measure its performance against the statewide strategies. Unless I missed it I only know of one small cluster of homes that would meet the affordable housing program. Given the 500 or so new units being added in the last 10 years I think that 4/500 would not meet the metric to allow for a moratorium. I mean, fingers crossed for a Christmas miracle but I suspect we will see a few 8-30's sent our way in a method to avoid the Nimby mob. Thanks, Nimby mob.

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