SAVE EAST NORWALK FROM TRUCKS, AIR POLLUTION AND NOISE POLLUTION!

We live in Westport right off of Saugatuck Avenue between exits 16 and 17. The traffic Pre Covid and I’m sure post Covid can be terrible particularly in the summer and always when there is an accident on 95. Adding trucks and delivery vans from a distribution center in East Norwalk would add to this problem. Emergency vehicles can’t get through. We can’t get off our street, etc. Please ask Norwalk P and Z to get Westport Saugatuck community to help fight this.

I'm against the Norden Distribution Center

Don't destroy the residential fabric and the quality of life of East Norwalk for destructive, polluting brute-force profit

Without a direct exit/entrance on to I95 to/from this facility this is not reasonable.

Do the right thing for the people of East Norwalk

Please save East Norwalk from disaster!!!

We the people of East Norwalk do not want this hub built. Dangerous and too much traffic.

The issue: A Special Permit for the 330,000sf 19-dock Distribution Center proposed at Norden Park means UNRESTRICTED big trucks traffic through our residential area. Every day, all hours. By the developer's admission, a prediction of 198 trucks per day (10+ trucks per hour} will go in and out of the distribution hub at Norden. That’s a non-binding estimate, and the city can't limit or restrict it. Picture it: Big rigs idling at stop signs and lights, belching diesel fumes. What do your lungs feel like breathing in pollution that never dissipates? Loud engine shifts to stop and start. Incessant reverse beeping morning, noon and night. The approved truck routes: Primary: Tractor trailers Exit 17 to/from Saugatuck Avenue to US 1 to Strawberry Hill to Norden. Box trucks Exit 17 to Rte 136 to Triangle to Norden. Secondary: East Ave Exit 16 to Fitch to Strawberry Hill to Norden. Tertiary: Route 136 to/from Exit 17 to East Norwalk to South Norwalk to West Avenue to I95/Route 7 Whether they travel to and from Norden from US-1, or from Winfield, or from Exit 16, East Norwalk will be under siege from all directions, with trucks passing homes on residential streets, schools, daycare centers, assisted living facility, and parks. Truckers will use the "fast route" East Ave to Fitch to Strawberry, but only until it's too congested... The safety issues: Large trucks can't stop easily. At 35mph it can take an 80,000lb tractor trailer 50% more distance to stop safely than a passenger car on a dry, level road. And their enormous blind spots make it particularly difficult to see children & bicyclists. Will you feel safe turning out of side streets? Or using crosswalks? Or when your family rides bikes and walks dogs? The environmental issues: Diesel exhaust contains gases and fine particulates that are well-known respiratory irritants, contributing to cardiovascular, pulmonary and other serious health conditions.

Harry Rilling is 100% the issue. Everyone on the common council dare not oppose him, and his appointee’s do exactly as they are told, or they perish. Kleppin has the spine of garden snake. Norwalk simply does not understand – it is your vote for this man (for all the wrong reasons) that has directly lead to the destruction of the quality of life all over this city. SoNo, Wall St., Main Street, the Waterfront. And now – he wants to crush the “New England Community” feel of East Norwalk. For what? John Kydes has zero courage to stand up – nor his counterpart – who doesn’t even deserve name recognition. This is a Hartford Agenda – not Norwalk. PUNISH HIM. PUNISH him with your vote. It is long time that he be sent to retirement in Ecuador with wife #3. The entire common council has to go.

please leave our town alone,the "powers that be" are destroying it piece by piece.we do not need trucks endangering the area.

There are no positive gains to East Norwalk residents to have a distribution center in their midst. The air quality (already questionable) , noise, traffic and congestion will do nothing but adversely affect the health and quality of life of any East Norwalk resident. Please vote 'thumbs down' on this or any similar proposal for such a detrimental use in East Norwalk.

Norwalk has enough noise and pollution. Enough!

I've always regarded East Norwalk, where I've lived for 40 years, as one of Norwalk's "community villages" for low-rise residential, small businesses, local eateries and walkable schools, parks and waterfront. This truck-centric depot simply does not fit even with the new more dense TOD that was recently approved.

Such a bad idea. Thanks for opposing.

Our city leaders are wearing blinders if they think this will not have a profound negative affect on the neighbor hood between Exit 16 and Norden.

This kind of truck traffic is inappropriate on residential streets in residential neighborhoods.

I cannot imagine the impact of adding tractor trailers to the exits from I95 at exit 16 and consider the City Hall residential area equally at risk for negative impact

East Avenue Traffic is a Bumper Car experience at best during the rush hour!

Exit 16 is already congested, before the new apartments open near the East Norwalk Train Station. Adding trucks will make this painful bottle neck even more congested. Strawberry Hill is the best route for anyone east of East Avenue to bike to the beach, avoiding the dangerous traffic and intersections of East Avenue. Truck traffic on Strawberry Hill will destroy that. As a lifelong resident, I’d rather pay more taxes. Also any competent developer could turn the building in to class A office space that would generate greater tax revenue. This is a quick flip solution at the expense of irreversible damage to our city. They just don’t want to invest what it would cost to turn it in to what we really need.

I am a big proponent of understanding true health effects of any land use application.