Thank you for addressing your concerns as a neighbor regarding this Ansonia established business.
In all fairness, equality and by the most extreme blighted example, it would only be fair to say if we were to go after this business (Eastside Greenhouse) and fine them from this day forward $100 per day until said corrective actions are deemed compliant we would also have to do the same for other businesses within Ansonia. Through equality we would have to fine the current holder of the Farrell Corporation buildings which already since the early 1980s would have a value added fine accumulation to date in the area of $985,000 . Our property on East Main Street which is the old Farrell Lab and ATP buildings are also well past due for fine paybacks to its own tax payers in town. Since the taxpayers have to look at these conditions daily throughout Mayor DellaVolpe’s administration the pro-rated fine collections should be used to reduce several tax payment line items per taxpayer. There should also be a fine placed on key administrators in the town allowing these industrial bad habits to slide un-noticed and un-structured as they tie to blight concept laws in town. Your issue and the one illustrated herein are the obvious reason unemployment, economic downturn, a growing rental community and a higher state percentage rate of section 8 and title 11 populations are on a upward trend in Ansonia. It is simple where blight thrives rents & your house will portray pricing as a comparable to the area thus low income or no income life styles moving in 10-fold for sheer affordability. We apologize for this ignored issue and would hate to rock-the-boat on equality as we remain clueless collecting the hard earned pay you pass on to us through your tax dollars. One benefit and something you should be proud of by example….we were able to rectify and administer the Nolan Field sod vandalism issues within hours and even days. We had a large response from our Ansonia Public Works team and others to addresses this PRIORITY ONE ISSUE in town. Look at it this way….this is a town with a head-banging football mentality who still retains its blue collar image even though the blue collar man has disappeared from America’s make-up years ago. We love to live in the past as the town time forgot.