Saturday, February 18

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Feb 17, 2006 12:00 am

Saturday, February 18

Oz, curtain 3 pm, Edmond Town Hall Theatre, 45 Main Street, admission $5, performance by The Newington Childrenâs Theatre Company; 270-4285.

Sunday, February 19

Auditions for Noises Off, 2â4 pm, The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Road, auditions for upcoming production by The Town Players, backstage and tech crew members also needed, auditions will also run February 20; 426-9850.

Monday, February 20

PRESIDENTSâ DAY

Auditions for Noises Off, 2â4 pm, The Little Theater, Orchard Hill Road, auditions for upcoming production by The Town Players, backstage and tech crew members also needed; 426-9850.

Tuesday, February 21

Board of Selectmen, 5:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Economic Development Commission, 7:30 pm, Multipurpose Center, Riverside Road.

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

Wednesday, February 22

WASHINGTONâS

BIRTHDAY

Housatonic Area Regional Transit (HART), board of directors, 4 pm, HART offices, 62 Federal Road, Danbury.

Conservation Commission, 7:30 pm, town offices, 31 Peckâs lane.

Thursday, February 21

BNI-Newtown chapter meeting, 7â8:30 am, My Place Restaurant, 8 Queen Street, all business people welcome, program on âHow To Find A Responsible Contractorâ by Jan Brown (Goulart Construction); 798-1234, 770-8466.

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

Saturday, February 25

Hot Cat Jazz Band concert, 7:30 pm, Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street, admission $12 adults, $10 seniors, free ages 6 and under, performance by Ross Tucker and his jazz band will include swing, big band jazz, and classic rock music with vocals; 426-9024, 426-3496.

Sunday, February 26

Screening of Gigi, 2 pm, C.H. Booth Library lower meeting room, 25 Main Street, free screening sponsored by Alliance FranÃ§aise of Northwestern CT continues CinÃ©mathÃ¨que series; 426-4533.

Tuesday, February 28

PTSA Planning Meeting, 7 pm, Newtown High School Room B152, 12 Berkshire Road, NHS Parent-Teacher Student Association needs volunteers to help plan and carry out postprom party, help needed for mailings, contributions, decorations, food coordination, security, and more; 426-1359.

COA Briefed On Mary Hawley Public Service Award, Encouraged To Participate

Boy Scouts Scheduling Christmas Tree Pickups

Swim And Dive Team Begins Season With Visit To Masuk

NHS Wrestling Team Wins Matches

The Way We Were

Head on a swivel at all times - especially in grocery parking lots! Keep an eye out for folks turning at the flagpole - it befuddles them at times.

Please Drive Safe In 2025

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.

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

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