Special Town Meeting

Tonight is the special town meeting to approve several purchases of development rights to properties in town. The first is vote on buying the developement rights to a farm called the Rechlin Property at 753 Waterman Rd. The total cost of this purchase is $50,000 or $7.06 for each man, woman, and child in the town. This would allow no access to the citizens in the town but allow for no developement.
The second request is for the release of $318,652 from a grant that was given to the town from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Farm and Ranchland Grant to purchase Conservation Easements on 3 properties. The first property the Cyr property at 1038 Trumbull Highway, the second at 595 Trumbull Highway called the Slate property, and third the Mindel property at 124 Norwich Avenue. All would allow the citizens to own the developement rights on these properties.
The third issue would ask the town to accept the Ordinance entitled Right to Farm Oridinance. The highlight of the ordinance is that the town would always favor the rights of the people to have a farm and farm with out harrasement.
In addition the town is being asked to allocate funds from the Town Capital Reserve account for work to be completed on Lake Shore Drive's Culvert to alleviate flooding issues and to buy a new Plow truck.