Name: Legislative Council Ordinance Committee special meeting (agenda posted)
Start: 2025-03-10T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-10T23:59:00-04:00
Location: Newtown Municipal Center

Legislative Council Ordinance Committee special meeting (agenda posted)

March 10, 2025 at 07:00 pm

Start Time: 7:00 pm

Newtown Municipal Center (Meeting Room #1), 3 Primrose Street.

Agenda posted.

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Meetings (town board and commissions)

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I see you object to my use of the word mob. May I ask if you attended any of the warehouse discussions over the past few years? The disrespectful behavior—the shouting, the veiled threats, the outright hostility—from some of my neighbors has been disgraceful. Frankly, I’m ashamed to call them my neighbors. When the mob stops acting like a mob, I’ll gladly stop referring to them as a NIMBY mob.

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Mr. Johnson Mob as defined by Webster: a large, disorderly crowd of people, especially one that is violent or destructive. This is how you refer to your fellow Newtowners and neighbors who have a view of the appropriateness of the upscale cluster housing development that differs from yours. The “mob” we saw at several of the public hearings consisted of volunteer fire fighters, teachers, farmers, concerned citizens of all ages and occupations and retirees like us- in other words - your fellow Newtowners - who are all entitled to their constitutional right of free speech. Name calling has no place in local public discourse or anywhere in our Nation. We are your neighbors not a mob.

Castle Hill Cluster Homes Approved Against The Will Of The Residents

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