THIS IS NOT JUST A RE-ZONING YEAR, IT IS A LEGISLATIVE RE-DISTRICTING/CENSUS YEAR. TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR 125TH DISTRICT HOUSE SEAT, STOLEN BY NEW CANAAN IN 2000 (see below)….
RE-ZONING: Look for more (of the same), with a whole-sale effort directed by the usual (and some new) suspects, with legal back-up from Attorneys Willinger and Rizio, to create an unlimited availability for low-end commercial incursion into R-A and R-AA neighborhoods, as well a more incursion of multi-unit housing into the same… Look for “A” zones to go to B’s, and a contraction of “I”-s as Bridgeport continues to succumb to the tax-base-expansion precluding plan for our city “One Coast one Future” (it’s an actual, official plan that makes Bridgeport the “housing hub” (translation — “cheap labor/unemployed population repository”) for Fairfield County… (This state-designed/state-sanctioned plan for Bridgeport is really just a 60-year-old unspoken plan that codified about 20 years ago and which created the incentive for the city-destroying zoning law/spot-zoning actions by the usual-suspect developers and their aforementioned — et al. — lawyer facilitators…)
Bridgeport is being set up to become poorer and more state-aid dependent (more tax-negative development, e.g., more “workforce” housing — please pardon the misnomer…) as the suburbs continue to nurture their exclusivity and their lock on tax-positive development (e.g., high-value commercial/retail).
REDISTRICTING: We mustn’t forget that this is a Census and Redistricting year, and that our population expansion — in the context of the lower-Fairfield County population loss — indicates that we should be pursuing the return of GA House Seat 125 to the Black Rock/West End sector of Bridgeport. Recall that New Canaan engineered the theft of that seat (about 17% of our GA voting power) in the 2000 Redistricting… (We lost our GA work-horse, prolific bill writer and state$-for-Bridgeport securer, Lee Samowitz, in that predatory move on Bridgeport by the ‘burbs…). IS ANYONE IN CITY HALL OR OUR GA DELEGATION CONSCIOUS OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN BACK SOME ESSENTIAL POLITICAL TRACTION FOR BRIDGEPORT?! ANYBODY IN THE D OR R PARTIES CONSCIOUS? MARIO? MIKE?
*** Don’t you need qualified people to sit on the board that’s going to implement proposals, ideas, plans (past or present) that will help Bpt. forward in the future. ***FORGETABOUT***
you’re right – the 134th doesn’t need new zoning regulations….it just needs to have the “official” paperwork to transfer it to SHU. lots of tax dollars will just disappear
What a joke. For four years and several trips to Superior Court, numerous citizen testimonies, outcry from the entire school board and several council members, unanimous request to deny by the NRZ, testimony from professional real estate planners and evidence against it through numerous white papers written by research scholars, Bridgeport’s liquor laws were ultimately altered to help only one politically connected person. The only reason that the last court case was lost by those against this change was that these corrupt persons finally figured out a way to get around it all by changing the zoning rules and getting around everything including a Superior court ruling. The honorable judge had no choice because they eliminated any “hooks” that his honor could hang the case on to again rule against the issue.
And they want public input!!!! Yeah sure.
Maybe Defilippo, WIllinger, Haig and all the rest that colluded in that effort can attend.
The late Anne Pappas got it right when she said “if it was just Joe Schmoe applying for a liquor license it wouldn’t be a big deal”. If it was Joe Schmoe it would have been quickly dismissed by zoning because Joe Schmoe is nobody with no connections.
Bridgeport: where corruption rules and Joe Schmoe gets stepped on everyday.
See you at the public input sessions!!!! NOT!
Cheers!!
Bartender: no tip for you!!!!
NIMBY!
THIS IS NOT JUST A RE-ZONING YEAR, IT IS A LEGISLATIVE RE-DISTRICTING/CENSUS YEAR. TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR 125TH DISTRICT HOUSE SEAT, STOLEN BY NEW CANAAN IN 2000 (see below)….
RE-ZONING: Look for more (of the same), with a whole-sale effort directed by the usual (and some new) suspects, with legal back-up from Attorneys Willinger and Rizio, to create an unlimited availability for low-end commercial incursion into R-A and R-AA neighborhoods, as well a more incursion of multi-unit housing into the same… Look for “A” zones to go to B’s, and a contraction of “I”-s as Bridgeport continues to succumb to the tax-base-expansion precluding plan for our city “One Coast one Future” (it’s an actual, official plan that makes Bridgeport the “housing hub” (translation — “cheap labor/unemployed population repository”) for Fairfield County… (This state-designed/state-sanctioned plan for Bridgeport is really just a 60-year-old unspoken plan that codified about 20 years ago and which created the incentive for the city-destroying zoning law/spot-zoning actions by the usual-suspect developers and their aforementioned — et al. — lawyer facilitators…)
Bridgeport is being set up to become poorer and more state-aid dependent (more tax-negative development, e.g., more “workforce” housing — please pardon the misnomer…) as the suburbs continue to nurture their exclusivity and their lock on tax-positive development (e.g., high-value commercial/retail).
REDISTRICTING: We mustn’t forget that this is a Census and Redistricting year, and that our population expansion — in the context of the lower-Fairfield County population loss — indicates that we should be pursuing the return of GA House Seat 125 to the Black Rock/West End sector of Bridgeport. Recall that New Canaan engineered the theft of that seat (about 17% of our GA voting power) in the 2000 Redistricting… (We lost our GA work-horse, prolific bill writer and state$-for-Bridgeport securer, Lee Samowitz, in that predatory move on Bridgeport by the ‘burbs…). IS ANYONE IN CITY HALL OR OUR GA DELEGATION CONSCIOUS OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN BACK SOME ESSENTIAL POLITICAL TRACTION FOR BRIDGEPORT?! ANYBODY IN THE D OR R PARTIES CONSCIOUS? MARIO? MIKE?
*** Don’t you need qualified people to sit on the board that’s going to implement proposals, ideas, plans (past or present) that will help Bpt. forward in the future. ***FORGETABOUT***
why bother having public input? Ganim/Testa will do as they will…the 134th should be sold to SHU….
Lisa: The 134th already has been sold been sold to SHU; all that they need are a few more permits to build and pave…
you’re right – the 134th doesn’t need new zoning regulations….it just needs to have the “official” paperwork to transfer it to SHU. lots of tax dollars will just disappear
What a joke. For four years and several trips to Superior Court, numerous citizen testimonies, outcry from the entire school board and several council members, unanimous request to deny by the NRZ, testimony from professional real estate planners and evidence against it through numerous white papers written by research scholars, Bridgeport’s liquor laws were ultimately altered to help only one politically connected person. The only reason that the last court case was lost by those against this change was that these corrupt persons finally figured out a way to get around it all by changing the zoning rules and getting around everything including a Superior court ruling. The honorable judge had no choice because they eliminated any “hooks” that his honor could hang the case on to again rule against the issue.
And they want public input!!!! Yeah sure.
Maybe Defilippo, WIllinger, Haig and all the rest that colluded in that effort can attend.
The late Anne Pappas got it right when she said “if it was just Joe Schmoe applying for a liquor license it wouldn’t be a big deal”. If it was Joe Schmoe it would have been quickly dismissed by zoning because Joe Schmoe is nobody with no connections.
Bridgeport: where corruption rules and Joe Schmoe gets stepped on everyday.
See you at the public input sessions!!!! NOT!
Cheers!!
Bartender: no tip for you!!!!