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Volunteers Work Together For Fifth Annual Fruit Trail Reawakening

By Alissa Silber

Published: Apr 03, 2021 8:00 am

A group of community volunteers equipped with gloves and gardening tools came together for the two-day Newtown Fruit Trail Reawakening at Fairfield Hills, on March 27 and 28.

The event was hosted by Newtown Parks and Recreation, along with Fruit Trail founder Andrew Mangold, who created the space in 2016.

The team started the day off by tidying up the gardens along the campus perimeter on Mile Hill Road South. People pitched in by raking and picking up natural debris.

Tasks needing to be done also included removing winter tree cages as well as planting new bulbs, shrubs, and flowers.

Amy Mangold, who is the director of Newtown Parks and Recreation and Andrew’s mother, said that another goal was to identify the different trees and plantings, then create temporary labels. The hope is to have permanent educational signage so that those visiting the Fruit Trail can know what is growing there.

For more information about how to help with the Fruit Trail call Newtown Parks & Recreation at 270-270-4340.

Newtown resident Gail Diminico lends a hand raking during the Newtown Fruit Trail Reawakening event at Fairfield Hills on Saturday, March 27. It was her first time taking part in the spring maintenance effort, and she was inspired to do so after enjoying the beauty that the Fruit Trail brings to the area. —Bee Photos, Silber

Newtown resident Bill Mangold picks up a pile of sticks along the Newtown Fruit Trail to add to the wheelbarrow beside him at Saturday’s Newtown Fruit Trail Reawakening.

Pictured from left are Fruit Trail founder Andrew Mangold, Newtown Parks and Recreation Director Amy Mangold, and volunteer Barbara Richardson going over the plans for the day at the start of the Newtown Fruit Trail Reawakening on March 27.

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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.

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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.

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.

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