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Town To Widen Parking Spaces in Playhouse Lot

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Town officials say they intend to widen the parking spaces in the lot behind the Playhouse this spring, and to improve the accessibility between that lot and Elm Street below. The width of the parking stalls in the Playhouse Lot currently is 8 to 8.5 feet, and the new width will be 9 feet throughout with a depth of 18 feet, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. The new parking stall will be “similar to what we did at Morse Court,” he told members of the Parking Commission during an update at their Feb. 5 meeting. “We’re going to hope that we do not lose any spaces on the last two stalls,” he said during the meeting, held via videoconference.

Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve $20,000 for More ‘Bumpout’ Curbing on Elm Street

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The Board of Selectmen during its most recent meeting approved an approximately $20,0000 contract for more “bumpouts” on Elm Street. The elected body voted 3-0 in favor of the $19,943.75 with Williams Stone Co. for the purchase of granite curbing. The material will be used for sidewalk widenings or “bumpouts” on the southern side of Elm Street, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. The new bumpouts will be located in two areas on that side of Elm.

Government

Town: Aquarion To Shut Down South Avenue in July and August for Water Main Installation

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The water company is planning to shut down South Avenue during weekday work hours between Harrison Avenue and Farm Road in July and August as part of a multi-year water main installation that is cutting across New Canaan, officials say. A project that started three years ago, the installation of the 36-inch pipe has already seen road closures and detours in eastern New Canaan, where the main comes in from Wilton and ultimately will feed toward Stamford and Greenwich. Public Works Director Tiger Mann said during Tuesday’s Board of Selectmen meeting that his department is meeting this week with Aquarion to discuss bids for the job. 

Selectman Steve Karl, noting that New Canaan itself is not benefiting from the disruptive project, asked during the regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference: “They’re not planning on doing Farm Road during the school year, right?”

Mann said no, it should wrap up during the summer months. The discussion emerged while the selectmen were approving a separate contract for sidewalk work along South Avenue from Cherry Street to Surrey Road. The selectmen voted 3-0 to approve a pair of contracts—for $18,000 and $20,000—to get surveying and design work to replace pedestrian ramps, where needed, along that route.

Government

August Rain Storm Caused $16,000 in Damage to Bristow Park

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The major rain and flooding that hit New Canaan in August, causing property damage throughout town, also required nearly $16,000 in repair to a public park that marked its centennial this year. The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday approved a $15,665 contract with a New Canaan-based company that provided emergency work to address the extensive damage done to Bristow Park during the Aug. 18 storm. “All the trails got washed out,” Public Works Director Tiger Mann told the selectmen during their regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. First Selectman Dionna Carlson and Selectmen Steve Karl and Amy Murphy Carroll voted 3-0 in favor of the contract with Peter Lanni Inc. The funds are available in DPW’s storm account.

Board of Finance

‘First Pitch Is April 1’: New ‘Coppo Field’ Baseball Facility at Waveny on Time, on Budget

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A widely anticipated project to create a new baseball facility at Coppo Field in Waveny—an area that appears to passersby as massive piles of dirt behind Lapham Community Center—is on time and on budget, officials said last week. 

The approximately $5 million job—$2 million of which is coming from the town, while the nonprofit New Canaan Athletic Foundation is paying the roughly $3 million balance—started in earnest last month following the approval by municipal funding bodies of a $4,977,685 contract with Canton, Mass.-based Atlantic Sports Group or “ASG.”

“It was actually a very, very tight bid and they [ASG] hit the ground running from day one from the time the selectmen approved it,” Public Works Director Tiger Mann told members of the Board of Finance at their regular meeting, held Nov. 12 at Town Hall and via videoconference. 

He continued: “If you’ve been out there, you can see that almost the entire footprint is starting to be leveled off. They’ve put in foundations for both dugouts, home and away. Poured those. The breaks started coming back from the concrete testing and they came back well.