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

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.”

Opinion

Letter to the Editor

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NewCanaanite.com received the following letter to the editor. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com to have them published here. ***
I think it is time call an audible and reverse the decision to charge for parking on Elm and South. The Town Council has already stopped the expansion to Main Street. I, for one, am not bothered with the app nor paying and have done so often since the start of the project (although the one time I ran in for coffee at Dolce and forgot, I got a $30 ticket – so what).

Op-Ed: Was it Ever About Affordable Housing at Weed & Elm?

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Last week it emerged that, after his four-year crusade for affordable housing at Weed and Elm streets, developer Arnold Karp has cooked up an alternative set of plans to build a 62-condo building that will contain precisely zero affordable units. Three neighbors currently serve as holdouts, refusing to greenlight this version of the project. If these neighbors capitulate, the 62-unit, market-rate building will move forward. If they don’t, the 30% affordable, 102-unit rental structure whose grimly generic renderings we first laid eyes on in 2022 will be built. 

To add to the intimidation tactic of Karp’s op-ed, bulldozers and land-clearing machinery have been active on the lot all week. I think we’ve all known for some time that this wouldn’t end without an eye-gougingly inappropriate building doing its best to blot out the sun at Weed and Elm streets.

Opinion

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Every year, Americans throw away an average of 81 pounds of clothing, and nearly 85% of those textiles end up in landfills instead of being reused or recycled. Piles upon piles of wearable, brand-new clothing fill up landfills, just for the excuse of “not being trendy.” The truth is that while many of us in New Canaan feel that our closets are overfilled, 40% of children living in the US face clothing insecurity. With the hope of helping others, our club, Voices for Change, believes that something as simple as donating clothes can make a real difference.

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I am genuinely astounded and appalled by the decision to change the outdoor dining laws and introduce meters downtown. In an era where brick-and-mortar retailers are facing unprecedented challenges, this appears to be a misguided and shortsighted plan. These changes are likely to devastate the retail industry, our downtown area, and our restaurant business. The removal of outdoor seating at our restaurants is a grave mistake.