The town suffered a legal defeat this month when a state Superior Court judge sustained appeals that had been filed by neighbors of Grace Farms following a series of Planning & Zoning Commission decisions regarding the Lukes Wood Road organization last summer. The neighbors David Markatos, Jennifer Holme, Timothy Curt and Dona Bissonnette said they were aggrieved […]
New Canaan’s highest-elected official is pushing back on an effort from fellow Board of Selectmen members to have the three-person body approve permanent part-time hires with the town. According to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan, “there really is no provision for [the Board] approving part-time employees” in the Town Charter. “Generally full-time employees are added through […]
New Canaan Police are investigating the theft of landscaping equipment from a Valley Road home, reported at 3:14 p.m. Sunday. An online petition opposed to the West School cell tower proposal has garnered nearly 600 digital signatures. It says, in part: “Better cell coverage is a good idea, but not a tower 600 feet […]
Municipal officials are asking the state to reconsider its recent decision to deny the town’s application for four years of relief from an affordable housing law. The Connecticut Department of Housing in its Oct. 18 denial letter to First Selectman Kevin Moynihan said that New Canaan fell short of the required “housing unit equivalent” points […]
Members of the appointed body that oversees New Canaan’s Historic District roughly, 21 properties around and near God’s Acre said last week that plans to redevelop the former Red Cross building property are not in line with the town’s guidelines for the area. Plans filed in May at 51 Main St. call for the ca. 1889 structure long […]