Fwd: Conservation Alert-- Connecticut
Bill Dyer
From: Polly Dyer <poll...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Subject: Fwd: Conservation Alert-- Connecticut
To: Bill Dyer <bill....@gmail.com>
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From: Tracy Benham <tbe...@beardsleyzoo.org>
Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Subject: Conservation Alert-- Connecticut
To: Tracy Benham <tbe...@beardsleyzoo.org>
Cc: gda...@beardsleyzoo.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Dancho [mailto:gda...@beardsleyzoo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:29 PM
To: tbe...@beardsleyzoo.org
Subject: FW: Down to the Wire!
Could you mass this out now?
-----Original Message-----
From: BRESLIN, Sandy [mailto:sbre...@audubon.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:16 PM
To: Audubo...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Down to the Wire!
Hi Everyone,
It's down to the final day of the Session and we are still working on two
(2) key issues and we need your help!
Please take a moment to make some quick phone calls right now - - even if
you called yesterday. Thanks!
FACE OF CONNECTICUT AND TAX EXEMPTION FOR CONSERVATION LANDS:
Call Senator Don Williams at (860) 240-8600 or (800) 842-1420
Call your Senator at (860) 240-8600 or (800) 842-1420
To find your Senator: http://www.cga.ct.gov/maps/townlist.asp
Urge them to pass Bill 5873 to create the Face of Connecticut Steering
Committee, establish a community farms program, and clarify the tax exempt
status of protected, conservation lands. More info below.
INLAND WETLANDS:
Call the lawmakers below and urge them bring HB 5716 amended by LCO No. 5642
to the FLOOR for a vote RIGHT NOW. This bill will restore protections for
wetlands and LCO No. 5642 has no fiscal impact!
More info below and in yesterday's alert.
House Speaker Amann at (860) 240-8500
Environment Co-Chair Roy at (860) 240-8585
Representative Bob Godfrey at (860) 240-8500 - if you are a constituent
Until then, keep those calls, emails, and good thoughts for the environment
coming!
Thanks!
Sandy
Director of Government Affairs
Audubon Connecticut
185 East Flat Hill Road
Southbury, CT 06488
(2030 264-5098 x307
(203) 804-0488 cell
(203) 264-6332 fax
sbre...@audubon.org<mailto:sbre...@audubon.org>
- - BACKGROUND - -
FACE OF CONNECTICUT AND TAX EXEMPTION FOR CONSERVATION LANDS: Bill 5873
creates a Face of Connecticut Steering Committee, comprised of five state
agencies and ten representatives of open space, farmland, historic
preservation and brownfields organizations. The bill also makes changes to
certain agricultural and brownfields programs.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/amd/h/pdf/2008HB-05873-R00HA-AMD.pdf
Bill 5873 also includes the provision that clarifies that nonprofit
conservation organizations do not have to actively promote public access on
their lands to qualify for a property tax exemption. The provision, intended
to address a recent court decision involving the Aspetuck Land Trust and the
City of Bridgeport, had been included in Senate Bill 655.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/amd/h/pdf/2008HB-05873-R00HB-AMD.pdf
INLAND WETLANDS: LCO 5642 strikes all language in HB 5716 and makes
protecting wetlands the primary purpose of the Inland Wetlands and
Watercourses Act. It would allow our towns to rely on comments provided by
the state Department of Health, expert environmental review team reports,
local water companies and the Department of Environmental Protection in
reaching decisions about wetlands.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008/lcoamd/pdf/2008LCO05642-R00-AMD.pdf
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Polly Dyer
thomas harbinson
Thomas Harbinson
President, IDA International Inc.
200 Roosevelt Drive
Derby, CT. 06418
T: 203.736.9249 x11
F: 203.732.5780