Thursday, December 5, 2019
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Volume 16, Number 44
CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Town leaders look down the road By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
Anthony Esposito, of 123 Woodford Ave. Ext., was charged with disorderly conduct after he began displaying a Confederate flag in front of his home on Oct. 29. The flag was no longer on display on Nov. 27 after he was ordered by the court to remove it. Image courtesy of Christopher Chapman
Residents hope court order ends alleged racist harassment In his family’s nearly 18 years of living in Plainville, Christopher Chapman says they have never experienced racist harassment like what began happening in June with a neighbor. “I don’t think it’s a true representation of this community or town,” said Chapman,
who is African American, adding that racism is still a pervasive problem in the country. Anthony Esposito, 49, of 123 Woodford Ave. Ext. was ordered by a judge last week to cease displaying a Confederate flag in front of his home after police say he threatened to have the Ku Klux Klan assail the Chapmans in See Harassment, A8
State regulations require that municipalities draft a new plan once every 10 years and that they be in line with Connecticut’s own land-use guiding document. Glenn Chalder, owner of Planimetics — the contractor the town hired to assist in the drafting of the plan of conservation and development, said the document’s value is thinking down the road and he
ulations and revising existing ones to comply with the new vision. Chief among those is the creation of a Planned Development District — a new zoning option that would allow for a greater variety of uses while providing the zoning commission more authority to guide development on parcels zoned to it. The plan targets three properties to be rezoned
Town Planner Garrett Daigle
to the Planned Development District: The White Oak property adjacent to Town Hall, where the town is currently conducting environmental testing; the Tyler Mill Farm property to the south-east of the intersection of Unionville Avenue and Northwest Drive and the former site of the Parsons Buick Company on East Street. “It’s pretty much a blank slate, so a property owner is able to come in for what See Leaders, A9
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By Devin Leith-Yessian The Citizen
believes a lot of discussion around where the town should go in the coming Preservation of open space years was incorporated in and the creation of a new the plan. zoning designation to encourage guided economic “Any municipality is made development are the main up of dozens of boards goals in the town’s newly- and commissions … but adopted plan of conserva- the value of the plan is, I think, it focuses everybody tion and development. on common issues and a Adopted by the Planning & common vision for the future,” Chalder said. “ … It's Zoning Commission on a refreshing moment for Nov. 12 and presented to any community to sit the Town Council during down and think about its Dec. 2 meeting, the what they should be workplan guides zoning and land acquisition decisions ing on in the future.” and provides projections Town Planner Garrett to help plan for the town’s Daigle said now that the demographic and ecoplan is in place he’ll begin nomic future. work on drafting new reg-