NewtownSupport Groups

By NANCY CREVIER

Published: Jan 20, 2006 12:00 am

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Support Groups

Friday, January 20Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, 8 pm, beginners meeting, open discussion.

Saturday, January 21Â Â Â Â Â Â

Daily Reflections meeting, St Rose School (Monsignor Conroy Room), Church Hill Road, 6:30â8 pm.

Sunday, January 22Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Newtown Senior Center, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook, 2 pm, open speaker discussion meeting, 90-minute meeting.

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church (lower level), 92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook, 7:30 pm, open speaker discussion meeting.

Monday, January 23Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA Beginnersâ Big Book meeting, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook, 7â8 pm.

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 8:15 pm, closed discussion meeting, teens welcome.

Hope and Support Group. For parents/caregivers concerned about a childâs suspected or confirmed substance use or abuse. Â Meets every Monday 7:30 to 9:30 pm at Newtown Youth Services, 10 Glen Road, Sandy Hook. Â All are welcome.

Tuesday, January 24Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook, 12:15 pm, closed step meeting.

AA, St Johnâs Episcopal Church, 5 Washington Avenue/Route 34, Sandy Hook, 6:30 pm, one-hour closed step meeting.

Al-Anon, in the rear of the building at 38 Church Hill Road, 7â8 pm. For more information, call 426-0731.

Wednesday, January 25Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Menâs Group, Newtown United Methodist Church, 92 Church Hill Road, Sandy Hook, 8 pm.

Thursday, January 26Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

AA, Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main Street (at flagpole), 8 pm, closed speaker discussion, nonsmokers meeting.

Monthly Meetings

Compassionate Friends: Grief support group for families who have experienced the death of a child. Fourth Tuesday of the month; 7:15 pm, Healing Hearts, 73 Stadley Rough Road, Danbury.Â For information call Karen Butterfield 845-225-5895.

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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.

Discusses Affordable Housing

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