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Recent (updated 9-26-2006) |
!! Please sign our new Petition !!
We are continuing to
collect signatures for our new petition prohibiting the Town Zoning Commission
to amend the current zoning regulations to include language which would allow Konvover to build their big box development on either the
CL&P land or the land near the skating center. If you have already signed
the petition, we thank you for your support. Please make sure that all members
of your family who are registered voters have also signed the petition.
Even if you
have signed our first petition, or signed up for our mailing list we still need
your signature for this petition, as
all signatures will be presented to our Elected Officials.
To sign the petition, please <<click
here>> - Thank you for your support.
River Oaks: Big Change Or Big Box? 
Rick Green, Hartford
Courant - September 26 2006
If somebody mentions "new urbanism" or "smart growth"
again, I'm going to spit up my double cap decaf latte.
What about developers who just do the right thing - who think about traffic and
congestion and the values of a community at the same time they think about
lining their pockets?
<<Click here to read more>>
Proposed Zoning Revision Prompts Big-Box Fears
Diane Struzzi, Hartford Courant - September 20 2006
SIMSBURY -- A proposed change to the town's zoning regulations that supports
mixed-use development has spurred concern among a homeowners' organization opposed
to big-box retail developments. <<Click here to read more>>
Reality Of Big
Boxes
In “A Kinder, Gentler Big Box?” [July 23,
Place Section], columnist Tom Condon asks, “Can a big box be part of an
appealing mixed-use development?” There are two answers: a theoretical “maybe”,
but a realistic “no.” <<Click here to read more>>
Highway to the Danger Zone
The battle over River Oaks, a big-box development in
Nathan Conz, The
Monday
night, there was an elephant in the room at a special meeting of the Simsbury
Zoning Commission.
That
elephant was the pending creation of River Oaks, a mixed-use, big-box
development planned by Konover Development Corporation on land off Hopmeadow Street near the Avon border.
A large, vocal citizens group, Simsbury Homeowners
Advocating Responsible Expansion (SHARE), opposes the development and, on
Monday, they joined Zoning Commission members, a handful of other town
officials and one devilishly handsome reporter to fill a conference room. <<Click here to read more>>
The Myth Of Big Bucks And Big Box
Developments
Tom Sevigny,
Hartford Courant - July 23 2006
I recently had the pleasure
of attending a SHARE (Simsbury Homeowners Advocating Responsible Expansion)
sponsored forum on River Oaks, the proposed big box development - or should I
say lifestyle center - on Route 10. <<Click here to read more>>