...They were joined by State Rep. David Michel of Stamford, co-chair of the Legislature’s Animal Advocacy Caucus. Michel said he called other state representatives from his caucus, some of whom joined him in the woods. They contacted a TV station and held a press conference. Michel said he also called...
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...provides about 40 percent of the below market rate units in the region. Amid a state mandate for housing accessible to all income levels, Stamford has done “more than its fair share,” Freedman told the Stamford Planning Board, host of the hearing. Surrounding towns have not, he said. Stamford exceeds...
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...expected to cost $86 million. If it’s approved, the state under the new regulation will reimburse Stamford 60 percent – a big increase over the previous 20 percent. It means the state would cover $51 million and Stamford would contribute $35 million. So, for the two projects, Stamford will need...
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...Stamford, in the matter of housing — large and small, for rich and poor — the city has clearly failed in this fundamental duty to its residents. As Angela Carella reported in a news story on Thursday, the City of Stamford employs just one enforcement officer and three inspectors —...
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...horribly misguided urban redevelopment. But under the same mayors who would like to export their poor, both cities are waking up, striving to increase middle-class housing downtown or nearby. Sometimes this effort is scorned as “gentrification,” but gentrification is exactly what the cities need. Why is Stamford booming while Bridgeport...
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...exempt from the lottery process. Benjamin Zachs, chief executive officer of Fine Fettle, a company that operates medical marijuana dispensaries in Stamford, Willimantic and Newington, is one of the companies that plans to enter into equity joint ventures as they apply for licenses to sell recreational as well as medical...
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On May 2, the friends of a 46-year-old Stamford man could not reach him by telephone, so they went to the door of his basement apartment in a single-family house downtown. They heard the shower running. They knocked, but the man did not answer. They called police. Officers arrived, heard...
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...buildings, as well as single-family homes, are being converted into rentals. Only a handful of single-family homes have been built in Stamford since 2010. Stamford has a substantial share of Fairfield County’s subsidized affordable housing stock. With 14 percent of the county’s population, Stamford far exceeds that in the number...
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It could be that Fine Fettle Dispensary will handle 40 to 50 recreational marijuana customers per hour when it opens in Stamford. To prepare for such a large number of transactions, Fine Fettle CEO Benjamin Zachs plans to install 12 cash registers. He expanded the number of parking spaces beyond...
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...predated it. It’s not the fault of the superintendent, according to the president of the Stamford Board of Education, the spokesman for Stamford Public Schools, and leaders of the Parent Teacher Council of Stamford. School board President Jackie Heftman said members recognize that the last two years have been challenging,...
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In the final meeting to decide on Stamford’s $626 million budget for the coming fiscal year, members of the Board of Representatives spent an hour and a half talking about one park. The discussion can be summarized by paraphrasing a famous line from George Orwell’s 1945 novel, Animal Farm: All...
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License-plate readers posted in busy parts of Stamford are detecting lots of unregistered vehicles on the streets. But officers are focusing on other things the automated plate readers detect, including vehicles that are stolen, those that may have been used in a crime, and those wanted in investigations by other...
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...in stable condition. “When I heard, I prayed his injuries weren’t serious,” said Stella, whose district on Stamford’s West Side includes the busy park. “Then I thought, ‘This has been one of my fears, and now it happened.’” The woman behind the wheel, 54-year-old Mikel Lyneel of Stamford, was charged...
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...for the kids, wheezing from asthma as they enjoy their lollies. Finally, a get-well greeting to Stamford mayor Caroline Simmons who, along with her husband, has come down with COVID. She says she’s feeling well but I think she’s delirious. In her pre-recorded State of the City address she said...
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...housing affordability. In the brouhaha, one Fairfield County municipality has been cited for success. Stamford’s Below Market Rate program is responsible for most of the affordable apartments constructed in the region in the last decade, lawmakers have said. As of 2020, at least 1,035 units were built through the BMR...
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...protect this prehistoric species from continuing on its rapid decline,” said state Rep. David Michel, a Democrat from Stamford and bill sponsor. If passed by the state Senate before the legislative session ends May 4, the act will prohibit people from collecting horseshoe crabs from beaches. The crabs are killed...
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...land-use cases – the law department said it’s because of all the development in Stamford – so that amount should be cut from funding for professional consultants, Boeger said. The law department often hires consultants to handle land-use cases, he said. “For me, this cut is about checks and balances....
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...neighborhoods,” Bronin said. Maybe in little towns, but not in cities, said Mike Battinelli and Steve Garst, who head the Stamford Neighborhood Coalition. “The people in Hartford don’t realize the implications of adding an apartment to every house,” Battinelli said. “I live in Glenbrook, which has a lot of illegal...
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The test is scored precisely, down to decimals. Yet results can be rounded. A grade may be set to define passing and failing. But not necessarily. Earning the highest score could mean a promotion. Or not. Members of the Stamford Board of Representatives said this week they are confused about...
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...statutes. 4 – Concerns have been raised many times regarding groundwater depletion and salt water invasion. Do you not read the news about what’s happening now in Stamford and Boston? We don’t want sewers to destroy our town by depleting our groundwater. 5 – We asked the WPCA to look...
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...cars and never ride our trains. When’s the last time you ever saw an MTA PD officer? When subway terrorist Frank James shot ten passengers on a crowded train in Brooklyn last week, Governor Lamont sent Connecticut State Troopers to “show the flag” at Stamford and New Haven hours later,...
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...about the project. “We’re asking for more money because we need it. It’s more than they have traditionally given in the past but in Hartford and Stamford they’ve asked for big bucks and gotten it,” Prendergast told CT Examiner. The application states that the bidding phase will be June-August 2022...
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It’s hard to understand how, in the age of the camera, motorists think they can strike a pedestrian on a busy boulevard, take off and get away with it. But that’s what happened Wednesday evening in downtown Stamford. Now a 52-year-old Stamford man is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, and police...
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The old Glenbrook School offers a primer on why the affordable housing issue is contentious. Stamford officials made a plan to sell the vacant school-turned-community center to a contractor to convert it into much-needed housing for working people. Officials had a long list of demands for the developer of the...
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...the town’s “fair share” is calculated at an additional 1,671 new affordable apartments – also more than the approximately 732 additional apartments under 8-30g. Stamford, which currently meets the goals of 8-30g, with about 15.7 percent of housing qualifying as affordable, is given a “fair share” of 2,385 affordable units....
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Svitlana Cano lives in two worlds. The first is safe and normal in Stamford, where Cano goes to work each day and raises her son, who is nearly 4, with her husband and help from her visiting mother. The second is far away, reachable only by signals in the ether...
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...practices. Connecticut companies, especially those in urban cities, such as Stamford or Hartford have benefited from evolving and changing ethnic diversity. The community and companies there have employed emigrating populations over the years. Perhaps, this openness to employee diversity has moved companies toward a broader commitment to stakeholder versus shareholder...
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...said that, to revamp Stamford’s ordinance governing commercial vehicles and parking in residential neighborhoods, he researched ordinances drawn up in other towns. There was plenty to see. “This is happening all over,” Petise said. To report improper parking of a commercial vehicle, log in to Fix It Stamford at https://veoci.com/v/p/dashboard/rpny838xny....
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...expand housing options, and a commission has been created and charged with examining the issue. Please give these working groups and the commission a chance to work. This type of “cram down” unfunded mandate is simply not a rational approach to good and effective policymaking. Peter McGuinness Stamford, CT 069907...
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STAMFORD – Members of the Board of Representatives said they were taken aback when they heard that Harbor Point’s signature building, The Lofts at Yale & Towne, is falling apart. The owner told a city commission this week that The Lofts, a 225-unit apartment building converted from the century-old Yale...
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