Included in
this and other parts of this report are original maps by About Town FOR
PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY:
LEGEND (land use colors) here...
CLICK ABOVE
ON PICTURES TO GO DIRECTLY TO
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF EACH RING.
The Weston Historical Society - Ring #3, Transfer Station (former
land fill) is Ring #1, and Ring #2 gets wet in part from from run
off and mostly from poor soils and no depth to bedrock in places.
SURROUNDING THE HUB...NEIGHBORHOODS
IN THE RING CYCLE
ON OUR DRAFT EXISTING LAND USE 2008 MAP...All around
the central part
of Town, down grade and apart
from the north
and separated by topography from the Saugatuck Valley section of
Weston.
THE
RING: "boomerang"
encircling the "Hub" The
Ring contains three sub-neighborhoods, as we have already
said above...
RING
NEIGHBORHOOD ONE -
At its outer edges are some identifiable features:
1)the Godfrey Road transfer station and 2)sealed landfill, the
3)Maurice Moore property, recently purchased in part from the present
owner, and the upper section of the Jennings Brook
watershed. Many acres of the Jennings Brook watershed have been
subdivided since the Dominski-Oakrock Environmental study of the
1970's, and new subdivision regulations developed after D-O contain
many environmental suggestions, including provision that power lines
and similar infrastructure be placed
underground wherever possible.Shown
below (ONE) is
that part of the Ring just discussed...
RING
NEIGHBORHOOD TWO -
What
remains open in
sub-neighborhood (TWO) is very
wet wetland. And
rocks. However, the roads system serving the already developed
sections is old and does not lend itself to modern "improvement" -
unless the Town of Weston chooses to undertake a major town-wide road
reconstruction program including intersection redesign, R-O-W widening
and elimination of some dead end streets, this
second section of the Ring is completely built out...all roads lead to
the Schools complex.
RING
NEIGHBORHOOD THREE -
Southern Weston (THREE)
orients toward Westport and
places to the west. This third section of the Ring has bloomed
over the years: formerly containing a gravel pit, sliced through by
power lines and subject to the heaviest commuting traffic,
non-the-less, this neighborhood turned negatives into positives in
recent history. First, the gravel pit subdivision took hold by
the 1990's and became "Cristal Lake." Then Weston led the charge
to bury 345kV lines, so CL&P did not have to upgrade the existing
power lines in Weston, and early declaration of two historic districts
along the west side of Weston Road provided another form of protection
to this residential sub-neighborhood.
T H E T H R E E R I N G S U B - N E
I G H B O R H O O D S E N C I R C L I N G T H
E C E N T R A L P A R T O F T O W N
The boomerang-shape is what we call "the ring" (made up of three
sub-neighborhoods) - for graphic purposes, the Central Part of Town is
drawn in the shape of an anvil (above - in keeping with the history of
Weston as a farming community!).
DRAFT EXISTING LAND USE 2008 - LEGEND
HERE.
The "ring" or boomerang or three "ring"
circus is a series of subdivisions mixed in with older
development.
NUMBER ONE - Recent development in Weston in this area.
Can you locate Maurice Moore
estate, former Land Fill
(now Transfer
Station)
Click here or on
map above to get a better look at one of the areas within this
sub-neighborhood where change has taken place since the last Town Plan.
NUMBER TWO - Presence of very wet wetlands here.
Water runs down hill. A good lesson - how do you think a really,
really wet property appears
at the scale of these maps? (HINT: look for larger than average
lots with speckled, irregularly shaped splotches.)
NUMBER THREE - Close to Westport
The former gravel pit, Weston Historical Society, Coley
Cemetery and CL&P
facility located here. Also, the recently established Aquifer
Protection Zone (around Aquarion's Coleyfield wells).
