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Fire Reports | March 25-30, 2021

Published: Apr 05, 2021 6:00 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, March 25: 6:12 am, medical assist, Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 3:59 pm, fire alarm–residential, Honey Lane, Sandy Hook and Botsford responded.

Friday, March 26: 6:51 am, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 3:41 pm, wires burning/arcing, Farrell Road, Hawleyville responded; 4:15 pm, brush fire, Mount Pleasant Road, Hawleyville responded; 6:11 pm, medical assist, Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 6:25 pm, trees/wires down, Elm Drive/Brushy Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:13 pm, trees/wires down, Robin Hill Road/Rock Ridge Road, Dodgingtown responded; 8:46 pm, trees/wires down, Alpine Drive/Watch Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 9:05 pm, trees/wires down, Poplar Drive, Sandy Hook responded.

Saturday, March 27: 1:24 pm, service call, Boulevard, Sandy Hook covered; 1:58 pm, trees/wires down, Boulevard, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:15 pm, brush fire, Leopard Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 11:43 pm, structure fire–residential, Platts Hill Road, Botsford, Hook & Ladder, Sandy Hook, Dodgingtown, and Hawleyville responded.

Sunday, March 28: 8:34 am, fire alarm–commercial, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:07 am, cover assignment, Lake Ridge Road, Southbury, Sandy Hook responded; 10:01 am, medical assist, Toddy Hill Road, Botsford responded; 5:51 pm, outside fire, River Run/Turkey Hill, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded; 6:34 pm, service call, Main Street/Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder covered; 6:51 pm, hazardous materials, I-84 West between Exits 13-11, Sandy Hook responded; 7:13 pm, fire alarm–commercial, Queen Street, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded.

Tuesday, March 30: 7:13 am, hazardous materials, I-84 East between Exits 11-13, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 11:45 am, MVA with injury, South Main Street, Hook & Ladder and Botsford responded; 12:26 pm, fire alarm–commercial, Toddy Hill Road, Botsford, Hook & Ladder, and Sandy Hook responded; 4:16 pm, brush fire, Tory Lane, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:46 pm, fire alarm–residential, Birch Hill Road, Dodgingtown and Hawleyville responded; 7:26 pm, outside fire, Farrell Road, Hawleyville 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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