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Make A Home

Published: Aug 16, 2019 7:00 am

Business name: Make A Home

Address: 506 Main Street, Monroe

Owners: Anita Pettengill and Dan Telesco

Business background: Anita: December 6 was our grand opening. We chose this location because we liked the store frontage and windows.

Dan: Make A Home is a separate entity to the Make A Home Foundation, but we are affiliated. Make a Home Foundation is a place we have in Newtown that helps homeless people get established into apartments by giving them furniture and household items that they need… we decided to open a store as a for-profit where we would give some of the proceeds back to Make A Home Foundation based on us selling stuff we got from [the foundation]. Some of the [items] we go get ourselves and some comes from [foundation donations].

Business focus: Anita: We like to reuse, repurpose, and recycle. We have anything that you’d want in the home — from antiques and furniture, rattan/wicker to oak and pine and cherry [wood].

Important to know: Anita: Our prices are very reasonable. People can tell us what they need, and we try to accommodate them. Dan is very handy, and we have a couple other artists that work with us. Also, it’s not a consignment shop.

Future events: Anita: We have painting classes. Dates can be found on the website.

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm. Closed Monday.

Website: makeahomect.com

Social Media: @makeahomect for Facebook and Instagram

Phone: 203-880-5420

E-mail: makeahomect@gmail.com

Dan Telesco and Anita Pettengill stand outside their new for-profit business, Make A Home, located at 506 Main Street in Monroe. The store seeks to reimagine, repurpose, and upcycle home furnishings. —Bee Photo, Silber

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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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