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Cottage food permitees, who make food for sale in their homes, now can earn up to $50,000 a year before moving to a commercial license. This loosening of the law may be the first in a series helping cottagers build businesses. ....
Blight enforcement is slippery slope ™ Maggie Gordon, [email protected] FacebookTwitterEmail The Town of New Canaan has had a blight ordinance on the books since October 2006. While the ordinance states that its purpose is to define, prohibit and abate housing blight in order to protect, preserve and promote public health, safety and welfares, and to preserve and protect property values, Blight Officer Brian Platz said he has a couple issues with it. What I ve found to be the case many, many times is that more often than not, feuding neighbors use the blight ordinance as a weapon to get at each other, Platz said, As the enforcement officer, I get sucked into this vortex of Hatfields and McCoys. ....