Monday, January 14

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Jan 11, 2008 12:00 am

Monday, January 14

RIS 5th Grade Chorus & Orchestra Winter Concert, 7 pm, Reed Intermediate School, 3 Trades Lane (snow date January 16); 270-4880.

Board of Finance, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Tuesday, January 15

Parks and Recreation Commission, 6 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

RIS 6th Grade Chorus & Orchestra Winter Concert, 7 pm, Reed Intermediate School, 3 Trades Lane (snow date January 17); 270-4880.

Board of Education, 7:30 pm, Reed Intermediate School, 3 Trades Lane.

Fairfield Hills Authority, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Wednesday, January 16

Borough Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Legislative Council, 7:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Thursday, January 17

Windows Into Waldorf, 8:45 am, Housatonic Valley Waldorf School, 40 Dodgingtown Road, info session and tour of grade school class while in session, reservations required; 364-1113.

Planning and Zoning Commission, 7:30 pm, Town Offices, 31 Peckâs Lane.

Friday, January 18

Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority, 10:30 am, Brookfield Town Hall, 100 Pocono Road.

Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials, 12:30 pm, Brookfield Town Hall.

Saturday, January 19

Opening day for SCAN Color in January 2008, 10 amâ4 pm, Lexington Gardens, 32 Church Hill Road, free show and sale by members of Society of Creative Arts in Newtown, continues daily until January 27, watercolor landscape demo today by Pat Barkman at 12:30, also opening reception today 2â4 pm; 203-445-8975 (show chair Sandra Scott).

Sunday, January 20

SCAN Color in January continues, 10 amâ4 pm, Lexington Gardens, see show description under January 19, also special demo today (12:30 pm) by Alain Picard on pastel landscape painting; 203-445-8975.

Monday, January 21

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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.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

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.

Why Gun Violence Is Higher In The US

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.

Discusses Affordable Housing

gangs. If I use a firearm in self/home defense, is that gun violence?

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