Monthly Archives: January 2006

http://www.courant.com/news/local/fv/hc-simland0127.artjan27,0,1897260.story Value Judgments On Land Use Forum Participants Talk About Town's Need To Balance Preservation, Development By MARK SPENCER Courant Staff Writer January 27 2006 SIMSBURY --The balancing act between development and preservation has been a major issue in town during the past year and lends itself easily to heated exchanges.But Thursday night at Eno Hall, more than 120 residents listened in a more relaxed atmosphere as a panel of experts discussed the issue in a forum called "Forging a Vision for Simsbury."The forum was sponsored by a residents' group called Keep the Woods, a group formed last year…

From the December 24, 2005 Hartford Courant.School Shouldn't Develop Property Ethel Walker School, a prestigious all-girls school, is planning to develop hundreds of acres of pristine open space in Simsbury with 122 suburban castles. This is being done to correct shortages in the school's endowment. For a private educational institution to attempt to resolve a short-term cash-flow problem by massive and irreversible development of greenfields is reprehensible. Housing developments like this do not come down in Connecticut; they usually multiply. The proposed development would entail not only 122 large-scale homes, but most likely more than 500 people, at least…