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Town: Land Use Attorney’s Comments Delay Filing of Moratorium Application

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A prominent land use attorney’s feedback on the town’s application for relief from a state affordable housing law has delayed its widely anticipated submission, officials say. In reference to the application for a four-year “moratorium” for the town, First Selectman Kevin Moynihan said Tuesday that “after getting some comments from a rather skilled lawyer who wrote the law, we’re going to get that back in very soon.” The lawyer in question, Tim Hollister, “makes a habit commenting on people’s applications before they’re even filed,” Moynihan told members of the Board of Finance during an update at their regular meeting, held in Town Hall and via videoconference. “That’s what the public comment period is for,” Moynihan said. “Since he [Hollister] wrote the law, he knows how to use it.”

Tucker Murphy, administrative officer under Moynihan, had said during the April 19 Board of Selectmen meeting that the town anticipated submitting the application two weeks ago (April 28).

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Data: Eight Single-Family Homes Sold in April

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Eight single-family homes were sold in New Canaan in April, new data show, down from 38 in the year-ago month. The median sales price for a house increased by 33% in the same period, from $2,025,000 to $2,687,500, according to data released by the New Canaan Board of Realtors. Here’s a snapshot of market activity:

 

So far this year, the median sales price of a single-family home has risen 15%, from $1,650,000 to $1,905,000, according to the data. There were just 34 homes on the market at the end of April, the data show, and homes are spending an average of just 164 days on the market in April, compared to 172 one year ago. Sales of condominiums increased to five in April compared to four in the year-ago month, according to the data.

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New Construction Planned for Country Club Road

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Town officials on April 24 received an application to build a new, six-bedroom home on Country Club Road. The approximately 5,450-square-foot home planned for 274 Country Club Road will include seven bathrooms and a finished basement, as well as an attached four-car garage, according to a building permit application. 

It will cost about $1.5 million to build, the application said. The contractor on the job will be Coastal Luxury Homes, the architect Tanner White Architects, both of Westport, it said. The two-acre property had been purchased in March 2021 for $1,340,000, tax records show. It includes a 1790-built, 3,723-square-foot home, the records show.

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Adams Lane Colonial Sells for $2,750,000

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The following property transfers were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address and click on the ‘Sales’ tab. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

April 28

175 Adams Lane

$2,750,000
Luis Alberto Diaz to Aaron Spivak

81 Locust Ave., #325

$350,000
Jogita G. Khilnani to Jennifer Klein

April 27

72 Heritage Hill Road, Unit 72A

$405,000
Terri Rafa to Andrea Schiralli

April 26

83 South Avenue F

$370,000
Thomas Frawley to Michael Alexander Benjamin Ufkes

April 25

346 Frogtown Road

$2,550,000
Paul Toldalagi, trustee, to Daniel Fink

181 Parish Road

$1,597,500
Jayne Gaynor to Jonathan Andrew Curry-Edwards 

160 Park St. #102

$2,350,000
M2 Partners LLC to Martin Spatz

215 Marvin Ridge Road

$1,725,000
Mary Varvatos to Robert Alberga

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Land Use Attorney: New Canaan’s ‘Moratorium’ Application Is Incomplete and Non-Approvable

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New Canaan’s widely anticipated application for four years of relief from an affordable housing law—which town officials had said would be submitted to the state April 28—is incomplete and won’t be approved as written, according to a memo from a prominent land use attorney. The town’s voluminous application for a “moratorium” under state law 8-30g is “unapproveable” and “should not be submitted to the Connecticut Department of Housing, for at least two reasons,” according to a 10-page memo filed with the town planner by attorney Timothy Hollister of Hartford-based Hinckley Allen. First, the town has not obtained the “housing unit equivalent” or “HUE” points needed for the moratorium because it hasn’t obtained a permanent Certificate of Occupancy, Hollister said in his memo (available here, minus attachments). The memo was filed with Town Planner Lynn Brooks Avni as part of a required 20-day public comment period, whose deadline was extended from April 28 to 29 “[b]ased on a delay in Town offices in making a copy of the application available,” Hollister said. “Every town that qualifies for a moratorium under the rules and regulations should be granted one, but this application, at this time, is well short,” he said in the memo, obtained by NewCanaanite.com.