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Fire Reports | March 20-26, 2014

Published: Mar 28, 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, March 20: 6:06 pm, hazardous condition, near 228 South Main Street, Botsford responded.

Friday, March 21: 9:39 am, motor vehicle accident, I-84, Hawleyville and Hook & Ladder responded; 1:04 pm, alarm, 1 Lincoln Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 5:20 pm, illegal burn/outdoor fire, near 18 Willow Brook Lane, Dodgingtown responded; 5:58 pm, alarm, 27 Ridge Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded.

Saturday, March 22: 7:35 am, investigation, 3 Trades Lane, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:46 am, wires down, 3 Church Hill Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 7:46 am, alarm, 45 Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 1:24 pm, public service, 11 Queen Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Sunday, March 23: 1:22 pm, alarm, 6 Evergreen Road, Sandy Hook responded.

Monday, March 24: 10:27 am, medical assist, 3 Nunnawauk Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 2:11 pm, wires down, near 152 Head O’ Meadow Road, Hook & Ladder responded; 4:30 pm, alarm, 139 Toddy Hill Road, Botsford, Sandy Hook, and Hook & Ladder responded; 5:49 pm, alarm, 40 Dodgingtown Road, Dodgingtown and Hook & Ladder responded.

Tuesday, March 25: 12:47 pm, motor vehicle accident, near 98 South Main Street, Hook & Ladder responded.

Wednesday, March 26: 8:54 am, odor of gas indoors, 162 Hattertown Road, Dodgingtown responded; 9:03 am, brush fire, Ethan Allen Road, Botsford responded; 10:03 am, wires down, near intersection of Poverty Hollow Road and Hopewell Road, Dodgingtown responded; 11:10 am, alarm, 17 Commerce Road, Hook & Ladder and Sandy Hook responded; 12:35 pm, wires down, near 31 West Street, Hook & Ladder responded; 12:41 pm, wires down, near intersection of Hawleyville Road and Old Hawleyville Road, Hawleyville responded; 1:21 pm, mutual aid call to Brookfield, Hawleyville responded; 3:24 pm, multiple brush fires, High Rock Road, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded; 4:05 pm, wires down, near 199 Riverside Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:10 pm, wires down, near intersection of Grays Plain Road and High Rock Road, Sandy Hook responded; 5:11 pm, brush fire, near intersection of Great Ring Road and High Rock Road, Botsford and Sandy Hook responded; 10:13 pm, medical assist, Bears Hill 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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