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Group One approves streamlined parking-commission charter language, sends draft to full CRC

New Canaan Charter Revision Commission (Group One) · March 18, 2026
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Summary

Group One voted to advance new, condensed charter language for the parking commission that removes dated 1960s operational directives and clarifies the panel’s advisory role on off-street parking facilities, fines and fees; commissioners debated retaining references to meters and land acquisition.

Group One of the New Canaan Charter Revision Commission voted March 18 to forward a streamlined draft of the charter language governing the town’s parking commission to the full commission.

The proposed text replaces detailed, operational sections of the current charter — many dating to the 1960s — with a higher-level paragraph that makes the parking commission an advisory body to the board of selectmen on planning,…

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