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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 18, 2024 9:53 am
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Children urinating into buckets. Mice and mushrooms emerging from floorboards. Showering at Planet Fitness!
The first public hearing on the mayor’s proposed new city budget elicited such horror stories — as members of the public came out en masse to push not just for more affordable housing, but for better government oversight of living standards across existing housing stock.
A text came in from an unsaved number: A young woman from New Haven and an older man living out of state needed a justice of the peace to perform their wedding.
Seeking an exception to state open-records laws, the Elicker administration Monday refused a request to view documents at the heart of a scandal over how City Hall handles marriage documents.
“Happy Hunting!” wrote New Haven’s vital statistics chief Patricia Clark to a federal investigator as she reported yet another immigrant getting married in City Hall.
The city released a 41-page investigatory report on Friday finding that Clark committed misconduct by reporting 93 marriage-seeking couples to federal immigration authorities and denying services to constituents arbitrarily.
Meanwhile, officials announced that Clark evaded disciplinary action by retiring in late February, the day she faced a hearing.
A handful of high-up local officials can apply to live outside of New Haven, as long as they can demonstrate a “critical need” or “extraordinary hardship” associated with living within city bounds after serving in their roles for at least a year.
New Haveners with strong feelings about the war in Gaza will get the chance to weigh in at a virtual public hearing about a proposed ceasefire resolution.
A city outreach worker has received an official reprimand and directive to attend sensitivity training in response to Facebook postings and a one-woman protest she conducted about the war in Gaza.
Taxes would rise — and city government would reshuffle its approach to inspecting housing and caring for parks — in a new city budget Mayor Justin Elicker proposed Friday.
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 21, 2024 6:21 pm
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Two affordable housing developments are a step closer to materializing in the Hill, along with the nearby revival of the old Coliseum site, thanks to approvals from the Board of Alders.
Developers returned to the City Plan Commission with a promise: If they get permission to transform a Shelton Avenue industrial building into self-storage units, the artists currently working there can stay.
A mayor’s vision of a booming city clashed with protesters’ vision of a world on fire — as pro-Palestinian activists held up the annual “State of the City” address in City Hall for half an hour on Monday night.
It didn’t “concern” Mayor Justin Elicker that protesters shouted down his annual “State of the City” address Monday night, he said.
“I am a little bit concerned about the dialogue,” he said. “I don’t think it was the most productive way to have a conversation. I also understand the frustration.”
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Laura Glesby |
Jan 26, 2024 11:04 am
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A local developer is planning to build an affordable housing complex designed for seniors atop a vacant city lot in the Hill — with the hope that she could someday move in.
A public-private funding structure. A “superintendent of fields.” A department divided into geographical districts, each with a point person for neighbors to contact.
Those ideas are all on the table as the city moves forward with a plan to un-merge the Parks and Public Works Department.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 3, 2024 9:00 am
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New Haven SWAT teams will have an easier time communicating with barricaded people in tense situations once new drones arrive this year, thanks to a vote taken at a City Hall meeting Tuesday night.
A Union Station rezoning proposal got a thumbs down — for now — from City Plan commissioners, amid concerns that it might not make sense to build so many new apartments next door to an active railyard.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 1, 2024 5:44 pm
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A year after first taking an oath of office in a private swearing-in ceremony at City Hall, Ward 21 Alder Troy Streater stepped onto the stage of City Hall with 28 other alders for his first full-fledged inauguration.
New Haveners who hail from Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, Honduras, and elsewhere across Latin America gathered downtown to deliver a message to the mayor: that their adopted home city should be a “sanctuary city” — not just by executive order, but by law.