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Fire Reports | June 25-July 2, 2020

Published: Jul 06, 2020 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, June 25: 1:17 pm, brush fire, I-84 West between Exits 9-8, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded; 3:06 pm, brush fire, I-84 East between Exits 10-11, Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder responded; 3:35 pm, CO detector, South Main Street, Botsford responded.

Friday, June 26: 5:19 am, car fire, I-84 East between Exits 9-10, Hawleyville responded; 7:38 pm, alarm residential, Antler Pine Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Saturday, June 27: 7:09 am, mutual aid, Southbury, Sandy Hook responded; 11:37 am, medical assist, Far View Drive, Sandy Hook responded; 4:54 pm, motor vehicle accident (MVA) with injury, in the area of Wasserman Way and Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded.

Sunday, June 28: 6:48 pm, MVA with injury, in the area of Berkshire Road and Toddy Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Tuesday, June 30: 3:41 am, medical assist, Woods Lane, Hawleyville responded; 11:50 am, alarm residential, Platts Hill Road, Botsford and Hook & Ladder responded; 10:07 pm, MVA with injury, South Main Street, Botsford responded.

Wednesday, July 1: 6:21 pm, alarm commercial, South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:25 pm, odor of burning outside, Boggs Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 8:24 pm, alarm residential, Parmalee Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 8:45 pm, alarm commercial, Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded.

Thursday, July 2: 4:04 am, medical assist, Jennifer Lane, Sandy Hook responded.

Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue firefighters are enveloped in light-colored smoke while responding to a brush fire on Thursday, June 25. The company was dispatched to I-84 East, east of the Exit 10 on ramp, at 3:08 pm that afternoon. Chief Bill Halstead located the fire, but also reported a second brush fire could be seen approximately 700 yards east, at the Exit 11 off ramp. A second crew of firefighters responded to the highway, to the second fire. Both were quickly extinguished. It was the second time last week that local firefighters responded to brush fires along the highway. Sandy Hook and Hook & Ladder were sent to I-84 West on June 23, and found three small brush fires within a 2¼-mile stretch. —Bee Photo, Hicks

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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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