The story of the $400,000
easement road built through Sikorsky Memorial Airport to accommodate
shoreline property owners including a millionaire, politically connected
developer continues to develop curves.
In upholding two appeals
that were brought against the Stratford Board of Zoning Appeals for
approving the road, Superior Court Judge Dale Radcliffe has raised even
more questions about the propriety of the whole mess.
To recap,
the city of Bridgeport paid $400,000 to property owner Manuel Moutinho
to build a gravel access road through the airport to his lavish
shoreline home. How this actually ensued after Moutinho had said he was
going to do the work himself -- and for $200,000 -- is the subject,
Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch maintains, of an investigation.
While
Radcliffe's ruling that the road was built improperly will certainly be
appealed as this story progresses, one of the more interesting
observations in his 17-page ruling is the citation of a land record
agreement filed in Stratford that says the private property owners are
"to maintain said easement at their sole cost and expense."
From
the city of Bridgeport's perspective, the new road had to be put in
quickly to let a $40 million safety improvement project at the airport
move ahead in timely fashion. The old access road to the private
property is in the path of that project.
But if time really is of the essence here, the way this thing has been bungled is likely to slow everything down to a crawl.
Source: http://www.ctpost.com
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