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New Canaan CRC Group 1 finds no ordinance authorizing parking citation appeals; motion to notify town council fails
Summary
Group 1 of the Charter Revision Commission reviewed parking citation appeal language and could not locate any ordinance granting the parking commission authority to hear binding appeals. A motion to forward the finding to the town council failed for lack of a second; members asked staff to gather historical documents for further review.
Group 1 of the New Canaan Charter Revision Commission spent an extended portion of its meeting reviewing language that refers to parking citation appeals "if authorized by ordinance," and reported they could not find any ordinance that actually grants that authority.
At the meeting, a member said they performed exhaustive keyword searches and checked historical materials but found no ordinance authorizing parking citation appeals. The member said they also searched local coverage on the NewCanaanite website and found active reporting about appeals, which…
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