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The settlement agreement resolves a complaint filed by an individual alleging that some of New Canaan’s parks and sports facilities as well as parts of the Town Hall campus were inaccessible to individuals with mobility disabilities. Continue Reading →
There will be a private service held in Teddy’s honor at Temple Shalom in Norwalk, and a celebration of his life will be held at a date to be determined. Continue Reading →
The hockey community is using the hashtag #sticksoutforTeddy on social media to support one another after the death of a young player in a freak accident Thursday night. Continue Reading →
Police on Thursday charged a 77-year-old New Canaan man in the fatal shooting of his wife at home, officials say. Continue Reading →
The idea of an affordable housing trust fund had been proposed to the RTM in 1988, but it was tabled. A year later the state affordable housing statute, 8-30g, was approved. Continue Reading →
In Greenwich, where a .1 or .2 acre lot located downtown with a “tear down house” fetches well over $1 million, some argued the result of 1024 would be a proliferation of expensive condos or rental apartments. It might not create affordable units, but instead erode what little remains of downtown’s middle class housing stock. Continue Reading →
These proposed bills not only ignore the economic reality of home pricing in high opportunity towns, but their adoption will suffocate efforts in affluent communities to create actual affordable units via private sector development.” – Danielle Dobin, Westport P&Z chair Continue Reading →
On Jan 21 Sara Bronin of Hartford was the featured speaker on a Zoom talk titled “Making Urbanism Antiracist,” organized by YIMBY Action. Continue Reading →
“Alex Kasser’s result in Greenwich stands as a watershed moment in our Town’s electoral history.” – Greenwich DTC Continue Reading →
Panelists said back country houses continue to sell though prices have come down. Westchester sellers continue to buy in Greenwich where property taxes are significantly lower. Young families continue to move to back country for the same reasons as always: affordable taxes, great schools, privacy, and country living. Continue Reading →