Waveny.net

Today’s Advertiser reports a new chairman of the Park and Recreation Commission, who was quoted as saying:

“We want to be good stewards of New Canaan’s assets.”

How ironic since the page before tells of more planned destruction of our park. In a self-motivated move to house the equipment that cuts, chops, shreds, moves, plows and maintains the park system, the Park and Recreation Department’s plans for a new equipment shed were approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Admitting the necessity to cut down another half-dozen long-standing trees and a slew of saplings their only concession is to paint the building brown and use renewable wood to build the 2,480 square-foot space. Why don’t they build it out of the five large trees they have to cut down? (or the hundreds of tree that were cut down under the previous Park and Recreation Chairman, Tom Stadler. Yes, hundreds of trees cut down during his “stewardship”. (waveny.net has photos of over 60 trees destroyed in the past 1 year!) We know they didn’t chip them to make new paths because they are paving the footpaths with asphalt now.

In other news, the group ‘Hands off Waveny’, if it still exists, is, if not a farce, a failure. Since the group was formed we have eliminated a significant percentage of the park’s land for a pool, a toilet, debris stockpiling, two new roads, parking spaces, a dog park (which claimed acres of untouched woods) and more including the unimaginable paving of the forest.

In today’s Advertiser article titled “P&Z approves Waveny storage shed” a resident voices concern that the Town of New Canaan didn’t adequately inform the public about the proposal to build a storage shed and that it hasn’t been properly vetted.
Does the public know that Park and Rec has cut a new road in the woods already? Does the public know that Park and Rec has destroyed a huge field and completely eliminated the habitats of thousands of animals without a word? They would if they read all 51 entries on this website.
The government never wants to hear from the people, they just want to spend their money. The shame is, they are using our money to progressively eliminate our most precious and irreplaceable assets. In ten years can we have a shed built? In ten years can you replace a 50 year old tree?
This is not stewardship. This is just build and conquer sprawl. Good thing we don’t have the Northern Spotted Owl in CT, otherwise it’d be harder to cut down so many trees in the name of progress or …the storage of gasoline powered equipment.