Rob Ryser

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NEWTOWN — A developer who has proposed 80 apartments and his company headquarters on the former Taunton Press site agreed in principle to town wishes for a sidewalk in front of the 13-acre property to connect renters to the nearby Fairfield Hills campus. “If the town says (sidewalks) are going to get connected (on South Main Street), we will absolutely connect ours,” said Phil Clark, president and CEO of Newtown-based Claris Design Build, during a public hearing last week.

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BETHEL – A land use commission's split over granting an apartment builder blueprint alterations pits concern about the developer’s commercial interests against concern about neighbors’ quality of life. “If we don’t approve it the way it has been presented to us, they can build it … and have it be a disaster,” said Robert Legnard, a member of Bethel’s Planning and Zoning Commission, referring to a 137-unit apartment and commerce complex that’s under construction on Stony Hill Road.

1 week ago | newstimes.com | Rob Ryser

BETHEL — Land use leaders approved plans to convert a single-family lot into 11 apartments under a state law allowing developers to build more housing than would otherwise be permitted if some of the units are affordable. The approval of the 11-apartment project at 105 Milwaukee Ave.

2 weeks ago | newstimes.com | Rob Ryser

DANBURY – The city's land use leaders granted six zoning breaks for a Mill Plain Road proposal to convert a defunct garage and auto body shop into a gas station and convenience store, but they drew the line on a seventh request to narrow the width of a two-lane driveway.

2 weeks ago | newstimes.com | Rob Ryser

DANBURY – It was Halloween 1968, and Edd Carvalho was home from Vietnam five days earlier than anyone expected, looking forward to surprising his wife whom he had met in Danbury out of high school. There he was in full uniform with a duffel bag, hitchhiking from the Wilton train station to where his wife was working, five miles away. Article continues below this adThat’s when it all started. Name-calling. Spitting. Swearing. One car after another passing him by as drivers jeered.