Families United in Newtown is planning its Annual Autism Awareness Benefit Concert and Dinner for December 30, this year with special guest Amanda Mammana.
The Newtown Fund is asking community members to help make the holidays special for local residents in need by donating to the annual Holiday Basket Program.
UPDATE: Due to expected inclement weather, this year's tree lighting has been canceled. | Hawleyville Volunteer Fire Company will host its 13th Annual Tree Lighting on Sunday, December 10.
Newtown United Methodist Church is offering a new event this holiday season — A Christmas Celebration — timed to lead right into Saturday night’s Sandy Hook Center tree lighting and the start of Advent.
Newtown Holiday Festival's main event will return to Main Street on Sunday, December 3. Organizers have additional events beginning December 2 and continuing to December 15, all to benefit Newtown Youth & Family Services.
Many genres will be represented, including indie rock, pop punk, scenecore, R&B, and more, when Rex & Lone Husky host Arctic Audio Showcase at The Garage next month.
Newtown Centre of Classical Ballet & Voice will once again present The Nutcracker Suite as part of the annual Holiday Festival supporting Newtown Youth and Family Services.
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.
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.
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.
