Zoning Amendments - Help on Next Steps!

 Zoning Amendments - Help on Next Steps!

- Email Region 15 Board of Education and attend Jan 9 BoE Meeting at 7:30pm in the PHS Media Center (Tomorrow): "As Middlebury residents and representatives to the region, please represent the collective community to oppose LI200 Zoning changes and the building of a large Distribution Facility close to our schools. The proposed use is incompatible with the current use of the zone" (Region15BOE@Region15.org)

----> https://www.region15.org/board.../board-of-education-clone

- Mark calendars for the next Zoning Meeting on Feb 2nd

----> Email Curt Bosco to ask for a larger venue with a mic to allow all voices to be heard (cbosco@middlebury-ct.org)

- Call / email Ed St John: "Middlebury is a semi-rural small town, and there is no place for a distribution facility of this size at the proposed location. The proposed use is incompatible with the current use of the zone" (firstselectman@middlebury-ct.org 203-758-2439)

- Message me directly if you would like to take a larger role supporting the cause

- Talk to your friends and neighbors to get the word out

- Stay tuned for more information! 

“Region 15 Parents” Facebook Group Poll

 

“Region 15 Parents” Group

100 Votes, 98% Not in Favor of amending the zoning code

8 Comments

Here is a sampling of some of the comments

·         i'm not saying at all that i support this, but has there been any statement about how many jobs this would create, or tax $$ it would generate?

o   Response: somewhere said approx 450 parking spaces so figure that many jobs. But at what cost. Between the home values of Avalon farms going down and those other homes in the Christian rd/Judd hill area. And then also the increased traffic on 188 from the highway. Which runs next to an elementary school where children are playing outside. It seems like a good idea to develop but maybe the straits turnpike area would be better suited. You know where the old timex building originally was in that area.

·         Just my opinion, but I would guess that any tax savings would be negated by a drop in home prices at Benson Woods, Avalon Farms, and Brookside. Who wants to live next door to 24 hour trucking?