Newtown Assist

By JOHN VOKET

Published: Oct 17, 2008 12:00 am

Newtown Assist

The State Police reported that at about 12:19 am on October 13, an unidentified off-duty Newtown police officer heading home from work notified the Southbury barracks that he was observing a possible drunk driver traveling eastbound on I-84 in the area of Exit 11. Troopers tracked and intercepted the vehicle in question in Middlebury and subsequently arrested the driver, Jose Vicente Farez, 37, of Green Street in Middletown. He was charged with DWI, failure to drive in the proper lane, and operating without a license. Farez was held at Troop A on a $500 bond pending arraignment.

Foot Slipped

Kevin Schulz, 30, was reportedly waiting at a red light on the Exit 11 off ramp to I-84 at about 6:53 am on October 15, when State Police say the driverâs foot slipped off the brake causing his 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee to bump the rear of a 2000 Honda Civic being operated by Victor Santos of Phoenix Avenue in Naugatuck. The incident resulted in what police described as a minor scrape on the Hondaâs rear bumper. No charges were reported.

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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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