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City Plan Director Woods (center) with City Plan Commissioner Adam Marchand (right) on a recent construction site tour.
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The city’s bid to promote attic, basement, and garage apartments and to reduce the minimum lot size required for new housing took a step forward, in the form of proposed zoning code amendments newly submitted to the Board of Alders.
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Anderson Curtis at Tuesday event.
A new city “cultural equity task force” is looking to get people to think of more than “Downtown” when they think of arts in New Haven.
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Carl Goldfield: Suiting back up for volunteer government service.
The mayor has tapped former Board of Alders President Carl Goldfield to return to City Hall — this time as a volunteer land-use commissioner.
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Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers at Monday’s task force meeting.
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Recent history of rising city pension costs.
Alders have brought back to life a pension task force to help figure out ways for the city to plug a nearly billion-dollar hole.
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Eyeing big changes: City Plan Director Woods (right) with Acting LCI Executive Director Arlevia Samuel.
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In an opening zoning-reform salvo, the city will seek to make it easier to build attic, basement, and garage apartments — and to drop the minimum required lot size for new housing to 4,000 square feet.
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265 and 267 Orange St. (the red brick row houses, not including the former Christy’s bar.)
City Plan Commissioners signed off on converting two empty downtown commercial spaces into apartments, in the latest instance of a citywide trend towards ground-floor residential.
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City Plan Chair Radcliffe, Vice-Chair Mattison, and Alder Marchand.
A lawyer for a sexual abuse victim of Rabbi Daniel Greer posed tough questions this week about how Greer’s nonprofits operate and use, or misuse, income meant to strengthen neighborhoods.
Another city agency, meanwhile, rubber-stamped another $900,000 for those same nonprofits without asking a single question.
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Tuesday night’s virtual hearing.
School security officers and 911 dispatchers are tired and angry.
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Mayor Elicker announces$6.3M proposed “summer reset” spending.
A citywide youth ambassador program. Fixed up city playgrounds. Drop-in centers for the homeless. Street outreach workers focused on preventing summer violence.
Those are just a few of the programs the city hopes to fund this summer with $6.3 million in federal Covid relief.
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Nichole Jefferson, now back at City Hall.
Nichole Jefferson is back in charge of the city’s fair-hiring department — and is still waiting for her court-ordered back pay from the city.
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City Health Director Bond (right) getting vaccinated in late December.
The city Health Department has teed up two new initiatives that — pending state and federal approval — would make it easier for local communities of color to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Continue reading ‘City Seeks Millions To Boost Vaccine Equity, Health Literacy Campaigns’
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Top city attorney Pat King: City working through 450 active cases.
The city appears on the brink of settling a lead paint lawsuit, while preparing to argue who has the right to sue whom over the fate of a Dwight playground and a retired fire union president’s pension.
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Alder Clyburn (at right) checks in on constituent Reishana Morrison during the pandemic.
Newhallville Alder Delphine Clyburn knows what it means to struggle. And she’s tired of it.
But, Clyburn said Monday night in the annual Black & Hispanic Caucus State of the City address, there’s much work yet to be done — to forge a better life for herself and her community. So she and her legislative colleagues aren’t bowing out yet.
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Babz Rawls-Ivy and Gretchen Knauff on “LoveBabz LoveTalk.”
New Haven’s new acting director of disability services, Gretchen Knauff, has big plans for the city.
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A Yale union-led rally downtown in July.
The Board of Alders unanimously approved closing off sections of Prospect Street on May 1 and May 5 to accommodate UNITE HERE plans to install a new work of public art and to hold a rally in support of local hiring, as the union continues to negotiate a new contract with the university.
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NHPS Supt. Iline Tracey: “Money, money everywhere.”
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The city’s typically cash-strapped school system has a big challenge, and a big opportunity: Figuring out how to spend $136 million in pandemic-induced federal relief over the next few years without getting hooked on the short-term dough.
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by | Apr 14, 2021 10:25 am | Comments (10)
The Board of Alders City Services and Environmental Policy Committee’s Tuesday night virtual hearing.
In a unanimous vote, the Board of Alders City Services and Environmental Policy Committee Tuesday night advanced a proposal to have city government convert all its buildings and vehicles to electric power.
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The city government has made the first payments to public works and parks workers to whom it owes over $65,000.
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In a windowless room in the basement of a university library, four mayors who ruled New Haven for four decades are going down in history.
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First row, left to right: Alders Charles Decker, Abigail Roth at Tuesday night’s hearing. Second row: Alders Adam Marchand, Rosa Ferraro-Santana, Richard Furlow. Third row: Alders Frank Douglass, Eli Sabin, Jeanette L. Morrison.
A proposal aimed at limiting pre-dawn noise from downtown garbage collection met with general support from alders, but not yet a vote to advance it.
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City workers and administrators are leaving their jobs at a quicker clip than local government can find replacements.
Why is that happening? And what can the city do to catch up?
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The deadly Ella T. Graso-Columbus-Davenport-Orange Avenue intersection.
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Proposed pedestrian safety upgrades.
The city plans to sell a small portion of publicly-owned land near the Ella T. Grasso-Orange-Columbus-Davenport Avenue intersection to the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to help facilitate long-awaited pedestrian safety improvements to New Haven’s deadliest stretch of road for pedestrians.
Continue reading ‘Land Sale Pitched To Make “Death Blvd” Safer’
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City Plan Director Woods (right) with Acting LCI Executive Director Arlevia Samuel: Rezoning is top priority.
No more tinkering around the edges. It’s time to start overhauling the city’s entire, half-century-old zoning code.
City Plan Director Aïcha Woods issued that call to land-use-reform arms when describing one of the top priorities for her department in the year — and years — to come.
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Q House, under construction on Dixwell Ave.
Oversee Q House programming. Hire and manage staff. Handle a portion of fundraising for the site. And establish relationships with community partners.
Those are some of the responsibilities detailed in a city proposal to enter into a three-year, $300,000-in-total contract with LEAP that would have that local youth tutoring and recreation nonprofit run the soon-to-open, reborn Dixwell community center.
by | Apr 2, 2021 10:17 am | Comments (2)
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Gretchen Knauff.
Gretchen Knauff, a crusader for the rights of the disabled, is New Haven government’s new acting director of disability services.