Last night the planning committee of the common council held a public hearing on the Master Plan of Conservation and Development. This plan speaks to zoning issues, and I sit on Norwalk’s Zoning Commission, so I will not be commenting here.

First Tim Stelloh form the Advocate:

Some critics, such as Al Raymond of the Spring Hill Neighborhood Association, had problems with the implementation section.

The plan, which acts as a 10-year blueprint for the city and encourages more mass transit, development of Norwalk’s center and the protection of the city’s environment and suburban neighborhoods, includes a section with recommendations and timetables. Those timetables are broken into one to two years, three to five years, six to 10 years and ongoing.

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Borrowing a good joke from Andy Garfunkel, things are heating up in District C. It seems that vandals are busy torching political signs in East Norwalk, and seemingly centralized on Strawberry Hill. Rebels without a cause in previous decades had plenty of other activities to inflict smells like teen spirit on the neighbors, but it looks like Norwalk teens have a penchant for setting fire to political signs and band equipment.

Signs supporting Mayor Richard Moccia, at-large Common Council candidate Fred Bondi, and District C opponents Laurel Lindstrom and David Park were also ruined in an apparent spree of political sign-burnings early Sunday on and around Strawberry Hill Avenue.

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