Silent Auction Is About Residents Helping Residents

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: May 09, 2008 12:00 am

To the Editor:

A Silent Auction to benefit âA New Pound for Newtownâ begins this weekend at The Inn at Newtown and will culminate on Sunday, May 18. A preview book, including photos of silent auction items, gift certificates, and bid sheets, will be available at the managerâs desk for you to peruse and bid at your leisure. Throughout the day on Sunday, May 18, the inn will provide a private room where all of the silent auction items will be on display along with corresponding bid sheets. Bidding will close at 7 pm with pick up available until 8:30 pm. Additional pick up hours will be Monday from 11 am to 3 pm.

A new pound is sorely needed. With the passing of the town budget, Newtown is one step closer to beginning construction. However, additional funds are badly needed to achieve the objective of providing a safe, clean, and adequate facility for stray and abandoned animals in Newtown. The new facility will have ample space for storage, exercise, and grooming, as well as isolation for sick animals. A separate cat room is also in the works.

This event is about âNewtown Helping Newtown!â Newtown establishments and residents have donated over 25 fabulous silent auction items such as: a World Wrestling Entertainment package including a Superstar Meet and Greet, four tickets to RAW and more; an evening stay at The Inn at Newtown and at The Dana-Holcombe House; your portrait by Cynthia McIntyre Photography of Newtown; tutoring sessions to WHIZard Academy and MindChallenge; a spa package; signed watercolor by California artist Justin Faivre; Savings Bond; Victorinox menâs Swiss Army Watch, Starbucks coffee and many more.

No matter what your interests are, this event is a winner for Newtown!

For more information or a complete list of our silent auction items, please contact me at NDRandle@charter.net. I hope you will visit The Inn at Newtown and support this very worthy cause!Â Â

Donna Monteleone Randle

Independent Party of Newtown

4 Erin Lane, Sandy HookÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, 2008

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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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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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