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Jeff Kohut, independent candidate for mayor, isn’t bashful when it comes to his take on city development. Here’s what he told City Council members Wednesday night during a public hearing on the proposed city budget: As a citizen of Bridgeport, I feel compelled to address our budget situation in terms with which the general public might [...]
Entries from May 16th, 2012
Kohut: GE Property For Road And School “Subversive Planning”
April 28th, 2011 · 35 Comments · City Council, City Politics, Development and Zoning
Tags: Bill Finch·General Electric·Harding High School·Jeff Kohut·Paul Timpanelli
Talk About Gerrymandering, They Can’t Be Serious!
April 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · State Politics
Could Hartford legislators actually throw the state’s largest city, the ultimate contrast to Fairfield County’s Gold Coast in Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District, into the 5th District? Get a load of this from the CT Post: Bridgeport, the blue firewall that helped Democrat Jim Himes twice prevail in Connecticut’s once-GOP-dominated 4th Congressional District, could be thrust [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Chris Donovan·Chris Shays·CT Post·Jim Himes·Nancy DiNardo·Tom McCarthy
Mayor’s Master Plan For Parks
April 27th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Development and Zoning, News and Events
From Mayor Finch: City to Kickoff Parks Master Plan Project Public invited to meet with Sasaki Associates Mayor Bill Finch will join Sasaki Associates in the kickoff of the City’s Parks Master Plan project during an open forum at Washington Park on Thursday afternoon. Sasaki Associates, a national urban design and landscape architecture firm with [...]
Tags: Bill Finch
Say What? This Happens In Greenwich?
April 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Development and Zoning, News and Events
From Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office: GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT, TO PAY PENALTY AND FIX WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE WASHINGTON – Under a settlement between the United States, state of Connecticut, and the town of Greenwich, Conn., the town will pay a $200,000 penalty and rehabilitate a critical wastewater collection system that serves three of the town’s major wastewater pump [...]
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GE Plant Poised For Teardown
April 27th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Development and Zoning
During World War I Bridgeport was known as the Arsenal of Democracy of the industrial world and the Remington Arms plant on Boston Avenue was the primary reason. The Browning machine gun and Colt automatic pistol were manufactured in this plant that once employed 20,000 workers. By the end of 2012 the plant, comprised of 13 [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·General Electric
Gomes: Keep Signs Away From Residential Areas
April 27th, 2011 · 11 Comments · City Politics, Development and Zoning
Statement from Democratic mayoral candidate John Gomes at Monday night’s Planning & Zoning Commission public hearing: MY NAME IS JOHN GOMES, I LIVE AT 150 ALPINE STREET IN BRIDGEPORT AND I AM HERE TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING REGULATIONS WHICH WOULD ALLOW INAPPROPRIATE SIGNAGE ON COMMERCIALLY USED PROPERTY ADJACENT [...]
Tags: John Gomes
When Needs Clash With Calls For Smaller Government
April 27th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, Education
The city is pushing forward with plans for a regional science magnet school, the first of its kind in the state, costing some $126 million. The state will pay 95 percent of construction costs. The city needs a new Harding High. In lieu of that this school takes pressure off of Harding. Roughly 1,000 of [...]
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Tags: Dan Malloy·Harding High School