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We’re writing not only about those municipal bodies that all local media outlets cover—New Canaan Board of Selectmen, Town Council, Department of Public Works—but also the Public Tree Board, Traffic-Calming Work Group, Parking Commission and Park & Recreation Commission.
The following appeals were recently filed with the Parking Department. Appeals are adjudicated by the Parking Commission. ***
“I honestly had no knowledge that we now have to pay to park on Elm Street. I never received mail on the new changes and rarely go on the computer. I never noticed the new signs you say are posted.
The Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Karp Associates. A Norwalk woman who said she was unaware that parking on Elm Street had recently changed from free to paid had her $30 ticket voided by the New Canaan Parking Commission on a divided vote at the appointed body’s most recent meeting. Vienna Bandur received Citation #97642667 on June 16 at 10:05 a.m. on Elm Street, issued by a parking enforcement officer in the Elm/South Street zone. In a written appeal submitted to Parking Manager Kevin O’Connor, Bandur said she had come to town to meet a friend for coffee and was parked for approximately 30 to 40 minutes. “I do not live in New Canaan and was unaware that the parking on Elm Street had recently transitioned from free parking to metered parking,” Bandur wrote.
The owners of a 4.74-acre property on Canoe Hill Road are seeking permission to subdivide the parcel into two lots. The new lots at 235 Canoe Hill Road (located in the two-acre zone) would be sized 2.051 and 2.69 acres and would be accessible via “common existing accessways,” according to a project narrative filed with the town. “The existing property was a part of a 4-lot subdivision in July 1966,” according to the narrative. The property owner is represented by New Canaan-based law firm Lampert, Toohey & Rucci LLC.
That 60-year-old subdivision “created three new lots” and, at the time, the owners of 235 Canoe Hill Road maintained access off of the road and “in the event they chose to re-subdivide” their property “would need to obtain permission from Parcels 3 and 4 to utilize the two common accessways,” the narrative said. The applicant “has requested and received permission” from the current owners of those two parcels to use the existing common accessway, according to the narrative.
Town officials on Tuesday approved another $84,000 for the remediation of contaminated soils at the former Irwin House site. The funds—to be paid to the Stamford Wrecking Company following a 3-0 vote by the Board of Selectmen—hopefully will be the final payment in a demolition and abatement project budgeted for about $770,000 all in, according to Joe Zagarenski, senior engineer in the Department of Public Works. The overall project is coming in about $29,000 over that spending plan, he told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. Asked when the public can expect to see green grass on the site of the former Irwin House, Zagarenski said in October-November — so long as no further contaminants turn up. “I don’t suspect we’re going to find anything, but if we’re trying to find the clean limits and we hit into another area that’s [contaminated]—I don’t see it, I don’t foresee it happening, but there is that [chance],” he said.
The Summer Internship Program is sponsored by Karp Associates. Four town-owned buildings sustained flood damage during the July 21 storm that dropped roughly four-and-a-half inches of rain in approximately 35 minutes on New Canaan, with Waveny House suffering what one town official called the worst basement flooding ever recorded there. “This is the worst that we’ve ever seen it where it flooded the whole basement,” Buildings Superintendent Bill Oestmann told the Board of Selectmen at its regular meeting Aug. 4 at Town Hall. “We got it all cleaned up and dry.”