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New Canaan parking commission begins charter rewrite, pauses citation appeals until ordinance clarified
Summary
The New Canaan Parking Commission on March 4 began reviewing proposed charter changes with a representative of the town’s Charter Review Commission, agreed to circulate redlines for member feedback and to defer hearing citation appeals until an ordinance clearly grants that authority, and voted to rename the parking bureau the New Canaan Parking Department.
The New Canaan Parking Commission on March 4 opened a multiweek review of the commission’s charter language and related ordinances, and agreed to delay hearing parking citation appeals until the town enacts a clarifying ordinance.
Steve Case, representative of the Charter Review Commission, told commissioners the town council appointed an 11-person review panel in November and asked each subteam to draft redline language. “I think it’s important to have the parking commission in the town charter,” Case said, but he urged removing operational specifics from the charter and leaving procedural detail to town ordinances.
The commission’s conversation identified a gap between the charter and town ordinances on appeal authority. Case and several commissioners noted the charter conditionally authorizes citation appeals only “if authorized by ordinance,” but said no ordinance currently assigns that authority explicitly to the…
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