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Commission holds draft demolition‑delay ordinance for more review, requests joint meeting with Ordinance Committee
Summary
Commissioners debated key legal and procedural points in a draft demolition‑delay ordinance — fines, notice publication, review timelines and whether the commission can require preservation alternatives — and agreed to hold the draft for further edits and a joint session with the Ordinance Committee before returning in May.
The Norwalk Historical Commission on April 22 discussed a redlined draft of a demolition‑delay ordinance and deferred final action until May after agreeing to refine language and pursue a joint meeting with the Ordinance Committee and municipal legal staff.
Commissioners raised several recurring issues: whether penalties under the draft would be concurrent with Building Department fines (staff said the draft’s language contemplates concurrent remedies), how legal notices should be published if state law removes…
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