Friday, December 16

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Dec 16, 2005 12:00 am

Friday, December 16

Newtown Middle School 8th Grade Winter Concert, 7 pm, at Newtown High School, 12 Berkshire Road, snow date January 13; 426-7646.

Saturday, December 17

Delivery Day, Sandy Hook Elementary School, delivery of holiday baskets through the Newtown Fund, donations by 9 am, volunteer drivers begin deliveries at noon; 270-9312..

Sunday, December 18

Danbury Brass Band concert, 3 pm, Newtown Congregational Church, 14 West Street, free performance of seasonal selections will be followed by reception, all welcome; 426-9024.

Monday, December 19

Commission on Aging, 5 pm, Multipurpose Center, 14 Riverside Road.

Board of Selectmen, 5:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Newtown Middle School 7th Grade Winter Concert, 7 pm, at Newtown High School, 12 Berkshire Road, snow date January 13; 426-7646.

Tuesday, December 20

Blood pressure screening, 10 am-noon, Lockwood Lodge Wellness Center at Ashlar of Newtown, Toddy Hill Road, free; 426-5847.

Board of Education, 7:30 pm, Reed Intermediate School at Fairfield Hills.

Economic Development Commission, 7:30 pm, Multipurpose Center, 14 Riverside Road.

Fairfield Hills Management Committee, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Wednesday, December 21

FIRST DAY OF WINTER

Legislative Council, 7:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Thursday, December 22

Board of Finance, 7:30 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main St.

Sunday, December 25

CHRISTMAS

HANUKKAH BEGINS

Monday, December 26

KWANZAA

Friday, December 30

5th Annual Concert Society Chamber Orchestra Holiday Concert, 8 pm, Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main Street, tickets $35 (must be purchased or reserved in advance, no sales at door), will perform concert that has been standing room only for previous four years,all proceeds to benefit Kevinâs Community Center; 270-6200, 426-0496.

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Head on a swivel at all times - especially in grocery parking lots! Keep an eye out for folks turning at the flagpole - it befuddles them at times.

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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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