Cat That Wandered into Local Home To Be Put Up for Adoption

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A cat that wandered into a New Canaan home last week is expected to go up for adoption soon, officials said. The black cat on Friday entered a Richards Lane home wearing no ID tags and local police transported the animal to the town’s shelter at the dump, according to Officer Allyson Halm, head of the New Canaan Police Department Animal Control section. Animal Control held the animal over the long weekend “hoping someone would realize they lost their cat,” Halm said. It wasn’t clear whether the cat was a stray, or had been dumped or lost. According to Halm, the cat is a male, appears to be a purebred and “has features similar to those of a Bombay cat.” His age is currently unknown.

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Neighbors Voice Concerns about Proposed Development of Private Road Lot

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Residents of a private road in New Canaan, as well as property owners contiguous to a recently subdivided 1-acre lot off of it, told planning officials on Tuesday that the proposed development of that parcel has them worried about runoff, privacy and future construction traffic. Richards Lane itself is narrow, has no cul-de-sac for turning around, and heavy rains have caused flooding, neighbors told the Planning & Zoning Commission during a public hearing, held in the Town Meeting Room. “My concern—and I think I am speaking most of Richards Lane—the concern is really around traffic on the lane,” said Neil Collins, a Richards Lane resident who volunteered that he is selling his own home, and who lives opposite the lot in question (number 62). “Also, the construction period. It is a narrow lane, and just the amount of truck traffic, construction traffic going down it.