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By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Jul 17, 2009 12:00 am

Puzzling Crash

Police report they are investigating a motor vehicle accident in which a 17-year-old girl from Sandy Hook was the driver. Because she is under age 18, she is considered a âyouthful offenderâ and thus her identity is shielded from disclosure under state law, according to police.

Police said they received a call from the girl at about 2:13 am on July 9, to report an accident that had occurred at some earlier time at an unspecified location.

In that accident, a 2009 Subaru Forester SUV, which was being driven by that girl, was damaged, receiving left-rear quarterpanel and bumper damage, according to police. The girl did not disclose where the collision occurred, police said.

Police said they issued the girl a violation for driving a vehicle without a license.

DUI Charge

Police report that after they received a complaint about a vehicle being driven by an apparently intoxicated person, they went to Sunnyview Terrace to investigate at about 8:20 pm July 14.

Police said they gave motorist Ronald Wallenta, 57, of 23 Sunnyview Terrace field sobriety tests, after which they charged him with driving under the influence and with misuse of a marker plate.

Police released Wallenta on $125 bail for a July 28 appearance at Danbury Superior Court.

Mt Nebo Road

A one-vehicle accident occurred on Mt Nebo Road about 1:52 pm July 14.

Police said motorist Jonathan Hull, 58, of 6 Fern Lane was driving a 2000 Ford F-150 pickup truck near 5 Mt Nebo Road, when he backed up the vehicle and one of the truckâs rolling wheels inadvertently broke a wooden cover for a drainage culvert. Town road workers were called to fix the damage. There were no injuries. Police took no enforcement.

Moving Violations

Motorist Picasso Petion, 23, of Bridgeport was driving a vehicle on Main Street which had an obscured marker plate at about 10:37 am July 14, so police stopped him to investigate.

Police charged Petion with driving with an obscured marker plate and with driving with a suspended license. Petion posted $100 bail for a July 28 court appearance.

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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.

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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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gangs. If I use a firearm in self/home defense, is that gun violence?

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