Connecticut Postings

The Ungag the People Committee has hired an attorney.

This week, J. Brendan Sharkey, an attorney from Hamden, Conn., (or one of his assistants, who knows) hand delivered a letter to City Attorney Mark Anastasi requesting documents relating to ex parte communications concerning the city’s zoning regulations between a number of city officials and “any individual or entity.”

The zoning regulations are currently being revised. A final vote could be held tomorrow at 6 p.m. at the Council Chambers at City Hall.

The Freedom of Information Request asks Anastasi to cough up any documents “including, but not limited to, correspondence, e-mail, instant messenger conversations, memoranda, notes, recordings (including voicemail recordings) and transcripts.”

They have asked for this information from Anastasi himself, each of the nine PZC commissioners, their legal counsel Associate City Attorney Greg Conte, Zoning Official Dennis Buckley, City Planner Mike Nidoh, Planning and Economic Development Director Donald Eversley and Land Use Director William Minor.

The Ungag the People also want monthly landline and cell phone statements reflecting calls made or received that related to the zoning regs.

There are also a whole lost of other documents requested. One of the more interesting ones states: “any documents involving, addressing or otherwise relating to the Proposed Zoning Changes and Mario Testa, Darlene Chapdelaine, Joe Voll, Steve Eaton, Attorney Dan Portanova, Gus Curcio, Attorney Raymond Rizio, Nancy Hadley, Anne Fardy, and/or Paul Timpanelli.”