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Fire Reports, November 20-26, 2014

Published: Nov 26, 2014 12:00 am

The radio dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:

Thursday, November 20: 4:57 pm, brushfire, near 24 Dodgingtown Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:36 pm, hazardous condition, near intersection of Berkshire Road and Toddy Hill Road, Sandy Hook responded; 6:29 pm, alarm, 6 Poorhouse Road, Dodgingtown responded.

Friday, November 21: 10:14 am, public service, intersection of Main Street, Church Hill Road, and West Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:11 pm, brush fire, near intersection of Berkshire Road and Sherman Street, Sandy Hook and Botsford responded; 2:23 pm, brush fire, I-84, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 3 pm, hazardous condition, near intersection of Mile Hill Road and Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:22 pm, alarm, 42 Taunton Hill Road, Hawleyville responded.

Saturday, November 22: 1:34 am, motor vehicle accident, near intersection of Hattertown Road and Boggs Hill Road, Dodgingtown responded; 8:20 am, public service, 6 Queen Street, Sandy Hook responded; 8:39 am, public service, 6 Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 9:02 am, public service, 34 Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville responded; 12:04 pm, public service, 34 Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville responded; 5:24 pm, burning odor indoors, 4 Country Squire Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Sunday, November 23: 9:53 am, investigation, 24 Hundred Acres Road, Dodgingtown responded; 10:09 am, 17 Robin Hill Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded.

Monday, November 24: 6 am, wires down, near 27 Philo Curtis Road, Sandy Hook responded; 6:47 am, wires down, near 19 Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 9:06 am, wires down, near 11 Whippoorwill Hill Road, Hawleyville responded; 12:20 pm, odor of gas outdoors, near 65 Mohawk Trail, Sandy Hook responded; 10:08 pm, alarm, 3 Sand Hill Road, Botsford responded.

Tuesday, November 25: 12:22 am, brush fire, near intersection of Button Shop Road and Little Brook Lane, Botsford responded; 12:55 am, alarm, 166 Mt Pleasant Road, Hawleyville and Dodgingtown responded.

Wednesday, November 26: 6:46 am, burning odor outdoors, near 54 Huntingtown Road, Botsford responded.

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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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