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04/20/2005 |
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Housing complex irks Devon residents |
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Phil Helsel , Register Staff |
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MILFORD — Some two dozen people crowded the steps to City
Hall Tuesday night, ready to rail against what they perceive
as a great injustice: a proposal that calls for 28 new
apartments, nine of them to be deemed affordable housing.
But despite the petitions, the angry talk and the homemade signs
reading, "Sold Out By The Mlfd. P + Z," a city error means that
they’ll have to wait another month.
Planning and Zoning Board senior member Bradford Hubler said
there was an error in the publicity for the meeting, so it would
have to be taken up another day.
The board had advertised the housing would be on one parcel,
rather than two.
The public hearing for the proposed complex planned for
Naugatuck Avenue will have to wait until 7:30 p.m.
May 17. Vocal opponents of the plan vowed to come back.
"We just put $50,000 in our house, and our property value is
going to just sink," said Joe Davies, who lives with his
pregnant wife and 6-year-old son on Milford Point.
"We just completely renovated our home, and for what?"
Developer James D’Amato, son of D’Amato Brothers Builders owner
Louis D’Amato, plans to transform an overgrown thicket on
Naugatuck Avenue into a 28-unit, six-building housing complex.
Nine of the one- and two-bedroom apartments would be designated
as "affordable," meaning that they are priced for occupants who
make at most 80 percent of the median income of $76,660.
But while some residents were upset at the prospect of
affordable housing going up in their neighborhood, others
outside City Hall turned their wrath against the zoning board,
which designated the area for affordable housing a year ago.
"They hid affordable housing in their corridor design plan,"
said Kim Rose, an outspoken opponent of the plan, who says she
may file a class-action lawsuit against the city over the issue.
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