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Deliberations on a “most contentious” project before Planning and Zoning Commission...

Citing public safety, Planning and Zoning Commissioner John Kriz made a motion to ban...

Dark green shutters, a cupola and a weather vane are part of aesthetics planned for a new...

Saying a new New Canaan Library will benefit residents, businesses and the wider community, the Planning & Zoning Commission on Tuesday night voted 6-3 to approve the organization’s rebuilding plan. The proposed new library also is consistent with many tenets of the major document that guides development in town, P&Z Chair John Goodwin said during the appointed body’s special meeting, held via videoconference. The approval includes a condition that the library return to P&Z in four months w...

New Canaan Library on June 9, 2021. Credit: Michael Dinan During their seventh hearing on New Canaan Library’s application to rebuild its facility, members of the Planning & Zoning Commission last week set up a vote between two options regarding the fate of what remains of an original library building. One of them, tagged “Option A” and developed mainly by P&Z Chair John Goodwin, would allow for the library project to commence and, one year in, the organization would present options to P&...

The memorial pavilion would consist of reconstructed front portico and retain...

*** Claims have been made that the proposed new library could bring in $6.6M to local businesses. I just discovered the economic impact study behind that number is posted on the Town’s web site. It makes for interesting reading. One issue is that $6.6M is the high estimate; the low estimate is only $346K. A bigger issue is that there is a major flaw in the logic, making the results meaningless. The report summarizes how they arrived at the number.  Here’s the gist of it: Basically, they di...

New Canaan P&Z chairman beckons consultant to solve persisting library argument Grace Duffield FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 The 1913 wing of the New Canaan Library on Main Street is the center of a controversy as residents try to decide if  it should be demolished or not after the new library is built next door to it. Picture taken April 19, 2021.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of3 The landscape will take into account native plants, pollinator pathways and  animal ha...

Moynihan backs 1913 library preservation: "Anything is possible in New Canaan" Grace Duffield FacebookTwitterEmail The 1913 wing of the New Canaan Library on Main Street is the center of a controversy as residents try to decide if  it should be demolished or not after the new library is built next door to it. Picture taken April 19, 2021.Grace Duffield / Hearst Connecticut Media First Selectman Kevin Moynihan said he has received “very little feedback,” as of Tuesday, April 20 after he voi...

The chair of New Canaan’s Planning & Zoning Commission said during the appointed body’s most recent meeting that he’s given testimony on proposed state legislation regarding affordable housing. The arguments behind “a number of bills” under consideration by the Connecticut General Assembly is “that historical and current zoning regulations have and continue to propagate exclusionary zoning in the state of Connecticut,” John Goodwin said during P&Z’s regular meeting, held March 3...