by | Aug 23, 2021 8:25 am | Comments (7)
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Fire Chief John Alston Jr. at Saturday’s event.
If you’ve ever wondered just how big the shoes of local leaders and politicians are to fill, you can now see the evidence — in the form of footwear — at City Hall.
by | Aug 18, 2021 2:00 pm | Comments (2)
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General Bishop Elijah Davis, Jr.
Alders fast-tracked the renamings of two Newhallville street corners after two neighborhood leaders who have dedicated decades of their lives to church-focused community service.
by | Aug 18, 2021 8:54 am | Comments (23)
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Public updated, weighs in Tuesday night on pandemic-relief plans.
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Give small businesses and homebuyers needed cash. Encourage non-car transportation. Teach kids budgeting, saving, investing. Boost wages to keep up with the cost of living.
City Hall has heard those priorities about how to spend $90 million in federal pandemic relief — and is now crafting plans to convert those goals into action.
Continue reading ‘The People Spoke. $90M In Plans Come Next’
by | Aug 17, 2021 7:47 am | Comments (3)
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Two of city’s four absentee ballot drop boxes, outside 200 Orange.
The city’s four absentee ballot drop-boxes will remain downtown — even as the city’s only primary election in September will take place in Newhallville.
by | Aug 11, 2021 1:32 pm | Comments (12)
The Elicker administration is preparing an order requiring city government employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. It’s just making sure to get the policy right.
Continue reading ‘Dalal “Anticipates” Gov’t Vaccine Mandate’
by | Aug 11, 2021 12:11 pm | Comments (1)
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The proposed new self-storage site slated for 129 Amity Rd.
Plans for a new four-story self-storage facility on the far west side of town moved ahead, with the help of side and rear yard relief from city zoners.
by | Aug 11, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (12)
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BoomBoomBoom! 186 units on tap for Fair Street.
City zoners unanimously approved land-use relief for two projects that promise to bring hundreds of new market-rate apartments to Wooster Square and East Rock.
by | Aug 10, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Ralph Walker Skating Rink.
Alders unanimously advanced two proposed public-private accords — one that would keep a community health center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that would bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
Continue reading ‘Hill Health, Skating Rink Contracts Advance’
by | Aug 10, 2021 9:37 am | Comments (16)
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Rethinking government: Community Services Administrator Mehul Dalal discusses plans at press conference last week.
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The city’s pitch for a new Department of Community Resilience.
Alders unanimously advanced the Elicker Administration’s proposed creation of a new bulked up and reorganized social problem-solving city department — after debating using short-term federal cash to address long-term societal problems.
by | Aug 9, 2021 3:09 pm | Comments (20)
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Mayor Elicker at a City Hall presser in May: First mayor in state to issue new order.
New Haven’s new citywide mask mandate is now in place — covering all indoor public and private spaces, and lasting until “such time as it is amended or earlier terminated.”
by | Aug 3, 2021 6:34 pm | Comments (4)
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Emergency responders attend to attacked man on the Green.
Cops and an ambulance crew responded to a 911 call on the Green Tuesday afternoon after an argument ended with someone hitting a septuagenarian in the head and drawing blood.
A block away behind City Hall, government officials had just wrapped up a press conference updating plans to respond to 911 calls in new ways.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro Commits $2M For New Crisis Response Team’
by | Aug 3, 2021 9:57 am | Comments (6)
Board Prez Tyisha Walker-Myers: Vaccinated, back in the chair.
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That’s not Zoom: Alders in City Hall Monday night.
New Haven’s Board of Alders returned to in-person public meetings for the first time since the outbreak of a life-threatening pandemic — then voted to protect lives of pedestrians on “Death Boulevard” and to push D.C. lawmakers to save lives with universal health insurance.
by | Aug 2, 2021 3:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Team Resilience: Captain Dalal (center) at announcement of new city department, with government youth leaders Gwendolyn Busch (right) and Ronnie Huggins.
A year after cries of “Black Lives Matter!” and “Defund the Police!” filled the air — followed by “Stop the Violence!” — New Haven’s government has responded with a new department pursuing a new approach with a less chant-worthy slogan: “Community Resilience.”
Continue reading ‘Year Later, Slogans Morph Into “Resilience”’
by | Aug 2, 2021 2:57 pm | Comments (6)
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The current Valley Street Townhomes.
City planners advanced a proposed 39-year tax break to help with the housing authority’s redevelopment of the mold-wracked, 40-unit Valley Street Townhomes.
by | Aug 2, 2021 9:43 am | Comments (16)
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Public testifiers on IZ proposal. Clockwise from top left: Darren Seid, Claudette Kidd, Benjamin Trachten, Anika Singh Lemar.
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Inclusionary zoning map overlay.
An “inclusionary zoning” (IZ) law is headed toward the final stages of approval after a debate over how, if at all, it might affect the city’s current building boom and quest for more affordable housinng.
by | Jul 30, 2021 3:00 pm | Comments (2)
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UniteCT Director Dawn Parker (right) with Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz and Mayor Elicker.
As the federal eviction moratorium is set to expire this weekend, local and state officials gathered at City Hall to urge tenants who are behind on rent to tap into $400 million in pandemic-era relief designed to keep Connecticut families in their homes.
Continue reading ‘$400M Still Available In State Rental Aid’
by | Jul 30, 2021 1:19 pm | Comments (26)
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Health Director Bond (at the mic) with Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz, city attorney Kevin Casini, and Mayor Elicker at Friday’s presser.
The Elicker Administration is “exploring” a vaccination mandate for city employees, and is strongly encouraging — though not requiring — that New Haveners wear masks while indoors in public places, regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated.
by | Jul 29, 2021 6:11 pm | Comments (5)
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New Capts. John Healy, Rose Dell, and David Zannelli.
The upper ranks of the New Haven Police Department are just a little more filled out, as three former lieutenants were officially sworn in as captains.
by | Jul 27, 2021 2:46 pm | Comments (11)
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Long Wharf’s Canal Dock Boathouse, and new proposed fee schedule (below.)
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City planners pushed the pause button on a proposed new fee schedule for the Canal Dock Boathouse after criticizing the resident-discount prices — up to $4,500 for a wedding, $500 to store a rowing shell, $1,000 to rent the Lanson Room — as too high for New Haveners to bear.
by | Jul 26, 2021 9:36 am | Comments (10)
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Underneath the Humphrey Street Bridge.
The city plans to “scour-proof” the Humphrey Street Bridge after a recent routine inspection revealed significant erosion of the riverbed that supports the Mill River-crossing infrastructure.
by | Jul 23, 2021 11:08 am | Comments (26)
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Commissioner Pagan, Chair Radcliffe: Go slow on builder breaks.
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“Massing study” of planned redevelopment of State and Chapel.
City planners held back on endorsing a proposed tax break for a new affordable housing project downtown, after two commissioners declined to back another city handout to a developer — even if that developer has a great reputation in the neighborhood.
by | Jul 22, 2021 4:57 pm | Comments (6)
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Elks leader Gary Hogan: Looking to buy and build atop city-owned lot.
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71-75 County St.
The Elks Club is one step closer to finding — and eventually building — a new Dixwell home, as city planners OK’d the historic African American institution’s bid to purchase two vacant city-owned lots on County Street.
by | Jul 22, 2021 9:38 am | Comments (14)
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Airport authority director Scanlon: There’s a risk to doing nothing. City Plan Vice-Chair Mattison: But what about the risks of this deal?
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Planned partnership with Avports.
City planners advanced a proposed four-decade lease that would allow for a larger Tweed New Haven Airport, with a lingering set of questions: How financially and environmentally risky is this airport expansion plan? And how does that stack up to the costs of doing nothing?
by | Jul 20, 2021 4:46 pm | Comments (26)
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A “massing study” of the planned redevelopment of State and Chapel.
Beacon CEO Kovel: Tax break key to making numbers work.
A Boston-based developer has taken a second crack at obtaining subsidies for an affordable housing project downtown — this time with more apartments planned, and a larger tax break.
Continue reading ‘Beacon Goes Bigger On State-Chapel Vision’
by | Jul 20, 2021 3:14 pm | Comments (33)
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Clergy group storms mayor’s office for half-hour sit-in.
A group of 10 ministers pressing concerns about racial justice entered CIty Hall for a sit-in — then left after praying and singing inside a mayoral conference room for 30 minutes.