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Legal Notices

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the

Town of Newtown Planning and Zoning Commission voted on the

following applications at the regular meeting of December 4, 2025:

Application 25.22 by 188-190 Mount Pleasant Road LLC,

for a Text Amendment to the Zoning

Regulations of the Town of Newtown, to create a zoning district to

modify the affordable housing language by adding Section 9.1 - 9.12

to the text amendment for affordable housing through developing at a

greater density, as demonstrated by supporting documents submitted

to the Land Use Agency August 27, 2025.

DENIED, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27, 2025

Application 25.23 by 188-190Mount Pleasant Road LLC,

for a Zone Change, for a property

located at 188-190 Mount Pleasant Road, so as to rezone the property

from a BPO to the proposed Mount Pleasant Development District, as

demonstrated on a set of plans titled “188 & 190 Mount

Pleasant Road, Newtown, Connecticut” dated 05/01/25, and all

supporting documents submitted to the Land Use Agency dated received

August 27, 2025.

DENIED, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27, 2025

Application 25.21 by CelaBuilders, LLC,

for a Site Development Plan, located at 128-130

Mount Pleasant Road & 1 Hawleyville Road, for the construction

of a 67-unit rental development community with 21 units "set-aside"

in compliance with Connecticut General Statutes §8-30g, as

demonstrated on a set of plans titled, “KELMENDI APARTMENTS,

Proposed Site Development, 128-130 Mount Pleasant Road, Newtown,

CT,” dated November 15, 2024, and all supporting documents,

submitted to the Land Use Agency dated August 14, 2025. Revised

October 31, 2025.

APPROVED, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27, 2025

Application 25.26 by 57Church Hill Road, LLC,

for a Site Development Plan, located at

57-57A Church Hill Road, for the construction of a new building, as

demonstrated on a set of plans titled, “57 Church Hill Road,

LLC, 64 Triangle Street, Suite 1, Danbury, CT 06810,” dated

September 16, 2024, Revised October 23, 2025, and all supporting

documents, submitted to the Land Use Agency dated October 27, 2025.

Revised December 2, 2025. Revised December 3, 2025.

APPROVED, EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 27, 2025

Dated at Newtown, Connecticut

this 9th day of December 2025.

NEWTOWN PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION

David Rosen, Chairman

Barbara Manville, Secretary

Fire Reports | December 3-9, 2025

Safety At Home: ‘Simple Steps, Big Impact’ Presentation At Newtown Senior Center

NHS Band And Guard Launches Fundraiser For New Equipment

Police Reports | November 20-December 6, 2025

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Unfortunately, I think this is likely to get worse, not better... Based on both public comments and private conversations, I’m increasingly concerned that our newly elected First Selectman intends not just to install these cameras, but to expand their use for full-blown enforcement and fines. Try getting a straight answer out of him about the long-term plan and you quickly realize how vague the responses become. Tyler is absolutely right to raise the privacy issue. These systems don’t just “catch speeders” — they quietly build a database of where we drive, when we drive, and who is in our vehicles. Once that infrastructure is in place, it becomes very easy to justify expanding its scope: more cameras, more locations, more uses, and eventually more automated enforcement. If Newtown is going down this road, residents deserve clear, written answers to some basic questions before anything is expanded: What limits will be placed on how and where cameras are used? Will footage and plate data be used only for speed enforcement, or for other investigations too? How long will data be stored, and who can access it? What safeguards will prevent vendors and individuals from abusing this information? Without firm, enforceable rules in place, “just a few cameras to slow traffic” can turn into something very different over time. I support safe roads — but not at the cost of unchecked surveillance and vague promises from our leaders. You try getting straight answers out of our First Selectman, myself and others have not been able to...

Discusses Traffic Cameras

I had to hold back a laugh at the idea that 7:30 pm is apparently such a late-night hardship that we’re already talking about moving meetings earlier. For a lot of residents, 7:30 is the earliest they can realistically get to Town Hall after work, family obligations, and the rest of real life. Shifting BOS meetings to 7:00 might make the calendar look tidier for those in the building, but it makes participation harder for the people who pay for the building. If the new First Selectman’s week is already booked solid and evening meetings feel like a strain, that’s not a reason to move the goalposts on public access—it's a reminder that the job is supposed to be demanding. Public service means accommodating the public, even when it’s inconvenient.

Walczak Adjusts To New Role, First Board Meeting

Real people were just in a frightening car accident. To immediately frame their misfortune as rhetorical ammunition against new housing — affordable housing included — feels less like concern for “health and safety” and more like opportunistically using a scary moment to support a pre-existing position. If we’re going to debate this proposal, we should do it honestly: with data on traffic volume, accident history, engineering recommendations, and the town’s housing needs, not by seizing on a single crash as proof that 300 apartments are inherently unsafe. Newtown deserves a thoughtful, fact-based conversation about growth, safety, and affordability — one that doesn’t turn other people’s bad day into a political talking point.

How Many Accidents Will It Take?

To add context that did not occur at the meeting would not be an accurate representation of the meeting and would, in fact, be editorializing to shape public opinion. The editorial staff here do not consider ourselves to be final arbiters of what the truth is (and if we did, it would make us partisan and biased), and we would need to provide a source for any dissenting information (sourcing all information in an article is literally Journalism 101). There were no such sources present at the meeting in question, and so it would not be appropriate to include such information in an article about the meeting. Dissenting voices appear in meeting stories when there were active participants with dissenting opinions, such as during public participation or the words of a council member who disagreed. It should be noted that the Interfaith Council, like many local boards and commissions, conduct meetings that are open to the public. This was not an article on the actions of the Greater Danbury Area Unites for Immigrants, or on immigrants, or on ICE's actions in the community, where including other voices or perspectives would be appropriate. We appreciate your opinion, but we stand by our meeting coverage and consider this discussion closed.

NIC Speaks With Danbury Unites For Immigrants, Discusses 12/14 Service

Propaganda is the systematic dissemination of information, often biased or misleading, to shape public perception and behavior toward a specific political cause or point of view. I'm not asking for Newtown Bee to editorialize, but providing context, where appropriate, to provide the reader with a more holistic view of the facts seems like a reasonable practice, particularly when encouraging the reader to decide what to believe/not to believe. Absent that context, this feels biased and misleading and intended to shape public perception.

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