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Letter to the Editor

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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com to have them published here. ***

Dear Editor,

I would like to thank the Affordable Housing Committee for the thoughtful and well-executed workshop held Tuesday evening at the Lapham Center. Approximately 80 residents attended, reflecting a strong level of community interest in this important issue. The discussion was both informative and constructive, with residents engaging in meaningful dialogue around the trade-offs associated with where and how additional affordable housing might be developed in New Canaan.

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Letters to the Editor

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As the current chair of St Mark’s May Fair I would like to support the goal of making composting a basic procedure at all our town schools. We have been fortunate to have Planet New Canaan be on site for the past few May Fair events and the fairgoers are most appreciative of the composting initiative . 

Thanks for all your efforts, Planet New Canaan. John Kennedy

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Dear Editor,

I’m writing to urge New Canaan parents of young children (birth through age five) to make their voice heard this week through a short, anonymous survey. 

Last year, the state passed a variety of early childhood legislation.

Op-Ed: Deceit on Weed Street

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I didn’t expect to be back so soon, but if the horrors persist, so, I guess, must we. If you missed the first installment, you’ll find it here. 

Last weekend, Arnold Karp and his team posted billboards at the corner of Weed and Elm Streets that claim to give passersby some choice in what gets built there. Protected by the same free speech laws that protect this Op-Ed, the signs also bully the site’s intervenor neighbors and make a crucially deceptive argument in support of the enormous condo building Karp has recently said he wants to construct there. First of all, please understand that the Town of New Canaan did not post these billboards, nor are they asking for you to vote on this project. That’s not how this works. 

Let’s talk about what’s actually going on.

Opinion

Op-Ed: Proposing a Task Force on Parking

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As suggested in a recent comment thread on the New Canaanite, setting up a task force of town officials, business owners and citizens is a logical next step to address New Canaan’s downtown parking situation. Yes, in hindsight, it may have been a great first step, but we are here today and need to look forward. I drive down Elm Street every day and while my business is not located on the one-way section of Elm Street, I do feel the merchants’ pain. I also know that the current downturn in shopping is not totally the result of parking rules changing. Besides the meters, we have lost many spaces over the past five years due first to a compliance issue with state of Connecticut ADA compliance around cross-walk safety and most recently the installation of curb bump-outs (which actually reclaimed about five previously lost spaces).

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To the Editor,

As organizations dedicated to the preservation and sustainability of our town, the New Canaan Garden Club, New Canaan Nature Center, and Planet New Canaan are writing to advocate for a common-sense solution to a growing environmental and financial challenge: implementing food waste composting within the New Canaan Public Schools. Currently, food waste makes up at least one-third of our municipal trash. When this organic matter is sent to landfills, it decomposes anaerobically, releasing methane—a greenhouse gas which is more damaging to our atmosphere than CO2​. 

Connecticut is currently facing a waste disposal “tipping point.”