Signs, Signs, Signs!!!

We got our signs in!

We are trying to prioritize high traffic areas for visibility if possible. This definitely includes areas in town that are further away from the current Timex site, as the zoning amendments, if passed, would allow distribution centers in LI-200 zones town-wide. Please keep signs 10 ft from the road on your own private property.

They will be available for pickup at Dunkin' from 5-6pm today (1/24/23). Depending on availability, we will have future times with more notice.

The signs cost the Middlebury Small Town Alliance $6 each.

Board of Selectmen Meeting is this Tuesday, Jan 17 at 4pm in the Town Hall’s conference room

Timex Property Development:

The next Board of Selectmen Meeting is this Tuesday, Jan 17 at 4pm in the Town Hall’s conference room (not in the Shepardson Center). We need people there.

https://www.middlebury-ct.org/.../bos_agenda_01-17-2023.pdf

If you can’t make the meeting, please send an email by end of day tomorrow, January 16th to all the Selectmen. Your email subject should say something like “For inclusion into the public record for the 1/17/23 Middlebury BOS meeting.”

Feel free to share your feelings about lack of availability for town meetings in general (not televised or on zoom, no mic, not enough seating, standing outside, no parking, etc) and that this project would tank property values, affect our school system, and ruin the semi-rural, small town feel of Middlebury.

Plus it puts our children at Long Meadow Elementary School and Pomperaug High School in harm’s way (100s of truck trips per day, increased air pollution for asthmatics, etc.)

Here’s the email addresses:

Ed St. John - firstselectman@middlebury-ct.org

Elaine Strobel - estrobel@middlebury-ct.org

Ralph Barra - rbarra@middlebury-CT.org

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! 

Amazing job, Middlebury!

 

Amazing job, Middlebury! Police had to manage traffic, and we ran out of parking spots!

The Zoning Hearing is still Open (good thing) - it means we need to mobilize again on February 2nd to make sure all voices are heard!

The Town had over 90 opposition forms submitted prior to the meeting, and needed a cardboard box to contain them all at the meeting!

So proud of our townspeople! Keep up the pressure! No to the Zoning Amendments!

Jan 5th Middlebury Planning & Zoning Hearing

 

For tomorrow’s Middlebury Planning & Zoning hearing for Distibution Facility zoning amendments, there are 6-7 planned speakers to kick things off, and ask that individuals please speak after.

The public Planning & Zoning hearing is Thursday Jan 5 @ 7:00 at the Shepardson Center. It has been moved to the larger auditorium to accommodate the expected number of people.

Submit your letters to be included in the public record ahead to Curt Bosco (cbosco@middlebury-ct.org) or bring it with you.

It is important to be physically present even if you choose not to speak.

“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?