Government

Selectmen Approve $35,000 Annual Contract for Public Roads Analysis, Management Service

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Town officials last week approved a $35,000 contract with a Burlington, Mass.-based company for a data-collection effort designed to help New Canaan track the condition of its roads and sidewalks. In addition to updating the “pavement condition index” or ‘PCI’ of 286 local roads, the work from StreetScan Inc. will provide a complete inventory of related “assets” such as road striping, signage, catch basins, manholes, water valves and roadside trees, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “It’s a fantastic idea to have all of our assets in one place, so all in, we think this an excellent step forward,” Mann told the Board of Selectmen at its Aug. 6 meeting, held at Town Hall. The three-year contract, at $35,240 annually, represents “municipal pricing” that is lower than what StreetScan had quoted in the past, Mann said.

Board of Selectmen

Town Officials Approve $132,000 Contract To Improve Country Club Road

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Following complaints from residents of the neighborhood, officials on Tuesday approved a $132,000 contract with a New Canaan company to improve an important local road. The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 at its regular meeting to approve the contract with New Canaan-based Peter Lanni, Inc. for improvements to Country Club Road. According to Director of Public Works Tiger Mann, the work will solve problems such as drainage issues and “alligatoring,” which occurs when a pavement surface develops interconnected cracks resembling alligator skin. Mann told the selectmen at the meeting, held in Town Hall, that the project was in response to “a series of complaints and requests” that had been received “from residents in the area.” The final contract price was lower than the initial bid received from Peter Lanni Inc., Mann said.

Government

‘They Have a Purpose’: Owner Likely Has Plans for Contiguous Properties Downtown, Officials Say

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Officials said Tuesday that they’re expecting the owner of a .2-acre parcel downtown that the town uses as a permitted parking lot to combine that property with two others for some type of project, possibly very soon. The town has sold 28 annual permits at $436 apiece for what long has been known as the “Telephone Lot” on Cherry Street. Last April, a limited liability company whose principal is a New Canaan man purchased the property for $625,000. 

Robert Cuda and his family also own numbers 21 and 25 Burtis Ave. under different companies, according to local tax and state business records. Located in the Business A zone, those two properties total .3 acres combined, meaning the Telephone Lot makes a half-acre total.

Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve $23,000 Contract for Flagstone Patio at Mead Park’s Colonnade

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Town officials recently approved a $23,000 contract with a Norwalk company to improve an increasingly used gathering space at Mead Park. The Board of Selectmen voted 3-0 at its most recent meeting to approve the contract with Nature’s Way Landscape Association to construct a stone plaza inside the colonnade area. The project will follow the sprucing up of the columns at the colonnade and improved pedestrian access to the area, a WPA project that originally had been a wading pool that was converted into a “victory garden” following World War II. Recreation Director Steve Benko in proposing the contract said that local landscape architect Keith Simpson had put together a nice plan for the colonnade that called for a flagstone patio and seating area with chairs. “It’s going to be a big enhancement to Mead Park,” Benko said at the Board’s July 23 meeting, held in Town Hall.

Board of Selectmen

Selectmen Approve $140,000 Contract with New Canaan Company for Sidewalk Replacement on Park Street, St. John’s Place Extension

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The Board of Selectmen on Tuesday morning approved an approximately $140,000 contract with a local company to replace an existing sidewalk downtown with an improved one. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectmen Kit Devereaux and Nick Williams voted 3-0  in favor of the $143,242 contract with Cross Street’s Peter Lanni, Inc. to remove and replace a concrete sidewalk along a stretch of the east side of Park Street north of Elm. “We are taking out the current concrete sidewalk and using a colorized concrete for the bluestone look,” Kevin Brunner, a summer intern with the Department of Public Works, told the Board at its regular meeting, held in Town Hall. (Public Works Director Tiger Mann is on vacation, Moynihan said.)

Joined by DPW Town Engineer Maria Anne Coplit, Brunner said the project would involve replacing concrete curbing with granite curbing, among other improvements. 

The section of sidewalk to be replaced starts at the southern entrance to the Park Street Lot and continues east along the hill that slopes down in front of of God’s Acre, on St. John’s Place Extension, officials said.