Government
Field Club: Provision Restricting Weekend Construction Work Unfair
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Calling a rule that no noise-making construction work can take place on weekends at the New Canaan Field Club unfair, burdensome and likely not enforceable, an attorney representing the club on Tuesday night urged planning officials to do away with the requirement. The Planning & Zoning Commission made the weekend restriction a condition of approval in green-lighting the expansion of a pool pavilion at the club six months ago. Glen Drive area neighbors concerned about noise, visibility and real estate values had fought against the project, which P&Z ultimately approved on 16 conditions. The last of those goes beyond even the town’s own noise ordinance, David Rucci of Main Street’s Lampert, Toohey & Rucci LLC told the commission at its regular monthly meeting. “We do not think that it is really a fair burden to put on us in this particular application,” Rucci said during a public hearing, held in the Sturgess Room at the New Canaan Nature Center.