Author: David Muccigrosso

As a recreational runner, I frequently have to cross the Stroffolino Bridge to get over to Veterans' Park, with its 1-mile perimeter perfectly convenient for running well-measured laps. The signal at Washington & Water Street has never been particularly helpful in this endeavor, but recent…

It certainly has been a stimulating debate in the last week or so over what to do about the Manresa Wilds project… and also whatever THIS was. I've made no secret of my anti-NIMBY stance, so I'm pretty sure most of my fellow Norwalkers can…

Much has been made by my indirect interlocutor about my "rhetoric" (a word people use when they do not have a direct rebuttal), my supposed personal animus (supposedly evidenced by the mere act of referencing their NAME multiple times in reference to their OWN proposal……

A fellow Norwalker recently encouraged me to keep up my writing, so it felt like a sign from the universe to go ahead and finish this letter draft. No shade to Ashley, but a thought occurred to me recently when seeing her weekly headline rounding up city…

This is in direct response to Liz Conti's incensed letter demanding the creation of a brand new investigatory body that will absolutely never turn Orwellian nor further clog up the arteries of our already-hideously-sclerotic local government. Even setting aside the rank conspiracism — really, is EVERY council…

The RTC recently averred in a letter to this esteemed website that "[a] healthy democracy requires respect and civility". I humbly submit to my fellow Norwalkers that before we fret about such issues, we should consider whether we even have a democracy in the first…

Many Norwalkers, NIMBY or not, complain about exorbitant rents in new construction. It's certainly a major focus of candidates like Chris Dwyer, who seem to think the main solution is just "affordable" mandates (which aren't, but let's set that aside — no pun intended). Likewise,…

On first reading of the new proposed Demolition Delay ordinance, it seems to be a massive power grab by the Norwalk Historical Commission. On second reading, it's even worse. The most notable changes include: Expanding the delay period from 120 days to 180. Adding a…

As Ashley recently reported, BET has asked all city departments to prepare for up to 10% budget cuts from their initial proposals, in order to help pay for the massive education budget overruns. I have an alternative. Why don't we just cut ONE department? Specifically P&Z.…

Inspired by Sarah’s article about our current laws and policies on public comment, I am writing to make the case that our public comment system is sorely broken. What always ends up happening is that the squeakiest wheels get the grease. On average, these tend to be an…

It’d be cliché to cast renterphobia as “the last acceptable form of discrimination”, but it’s impossible to mistake the vitriol one detects when local leaders, many of them frequent commenters here at NoN, use the terms “transient” and “commuter” to denigrate recently-arrived residents and renters…

In a recent comment, I bragged that I could “rattle 20 projects in SoNo alone off the top of my head”. I’ve got 20 — oops, now 19 — minutes left in my lunch break, so let’s make a go of it. Help SpaceCat either…