This Week’s Letters to the Editor

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Another Vote for Principle Over Party

To the editor,

As a longtime Democrat living in Woodbridge for the past 27 years, I have observed distressing changes in how our town has been governed over the past 15 years. Issues that define the national parties have no relevance to how our town is run and the issues we face here.

This is a town with many very intelligent residents with busy professional and personal lives, raising their families, and taking for granted that the rural bucolic characteristics of our town will remain. They assume that the town government is working with their best interest in mind to maintain the open spaces and good schools that we have. They frequently do not have the time or energy to try to follow details of what is going on with different commission meetings, and so contentious issues are not on the radar until election season.

And that is where we are now, getting various campaign pieces in our mail and coming across our social media news feeds. The challenge is trying to read and understand in a way to decipher truth from misleading propaganda.

I urge my fellow residents to truly read the words on those mailers and recognize where there is exaggeration and clear misrepresentation of what our town government has been doing under cover of darkness. Transparency? Communication? We have had very little.

It seems the Democratic campaign’s pitch has been largely name-calling and hollow claims of progress and consensus where there actually has been none.

I’ve noticed that a number of prominent Democrats in town are speaking out against what has been happening and expressing support for the Common Ground slate.

That should be a wake-up call. I hope my neighbors will join me in voting for Rob Rosasco and Common Ground.

— Robert McLean

New Beecher Road Development Proposal Rekindles Woodbridge Zoning Concerns

To the editor,

In the past couple of days, a developer, Gracious Properties LLC, filed an application with the Inland Wetlands Agency of Woodbridge to construct a 100 unit apartment building on 27 Beecher Road under the affordable housing designation, 30G. This is exactly what we have been advising taxpayers could be proposed now that the Town Planning and Zoning Commission (TPZ) changed our zoning regulations to allow buildings such as this in our entire residential zone with water and sewers. Can you imagine what this will do to Beecher Road?

Of course, Mica Cardozo and the Democratic Town Committee (DTC) will blame the TPZ for this as they have in the past. Considering there are three DTC members on TPZ, it is hard to believe Mica and the rest of the Democrats are totally uninformed on the actions of the TPZ. In fact, Mica sat front and center on December 2, 2024, at the TPZ meeting when the horrific changes were made to our zoning laws and because of his inaction we now are wide open to developments such as this. That represents a total failure of leadership. As our First Selectman he should certainly be aware of all consequential decisions such as these. But then again Mica has stated on numerous occasions that he favors providing diverse housing options for Woodbridge. Well, here you have it!

Many of us have been appealing to Woodbridge residents to take this zoning change seriously and realize the danger it creates for our beautiful town. On Tuesday you can vote for more of the same with Mica Cardozo and his team or vote to stop this unwanted assault on our town by voting for the Rosasco slate which is clearly opposed to this unwanted development.

— Matthew T. Giglietti

The writer was a member of the Woodbridge Board of Finance from July 1986 to December 2023 where he served as Chairman for 35 years (1988–2023).

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