Monday, August 24

By ANDY GOROSKO

Published: Aug 21, 2009 12:00 am

Monday, August 24

Board of Fire Commissioners, 7 pm Dodgingtown Firehouse, 55 Dodgingtown Road (Route 302).

Board of Selectmen, 7:30 pm, Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Tuesday, August 25

Sandy Hook Organic Farmersâ Market, 2â6 pm, behind St Johnâs Church, 3 Washington Avenue, local food and craft vendors with fruits, vegetables, jams, baked goods, cut flowers, eggs and more, weekly until mid October; 313-9908.

Conservation Commission, 6 pm, Town Offices, 31 Peckâs Lane.

Public Building and Site Commission, 7 pm, Reed Intermediate School, 3 Trades Lane.Â

Wednesday, August 26

Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) program, 1:30 pm, Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street, free demo on painting a landscape with acrylics by Anda Styler, public welcome; 426-6654.

Housatonic Area Regional Transit (HART) Board of Directors, 4 pm, HART Offices, 62 Federal Road, Danbury.

Borough Zoning Board of Appeals, 7 pm, Town Hall South, 3 Main Street.

Inland Wetlands Commission, 7:30 pm, Town Offices, 31 Peckâs Lane.

Lake Zoar Authority, 7:30 pm, Southbury Town Hall, 501 Main Street South.

Thursday, August 27

Volunteer Open House, 9 am-noon, Starbucks, 34 Church Hill Road, representatives from Booth Library, Newtown Youth & Family Services, FISH, Guiding Eyes for the Blind and Newtown Ambulance will answer questions about groups, discuss volunteer opportunities; 364-1423.

Cultural Arts Commission, 7 pm Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

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

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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.

Backs Moratorium On Dense Development Applications

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.

P&Z Should Reject Vessel Proposal

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.

Discusses Affordable Housing

gangs. If I use a firearm in self/home defense, is that gun violence?

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