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The What: All Aboard: In and Around the Bridgeport Train Station; Gregory Circle in Norwalk; and more

The What is your look around southwest Connecticut for the week of May 26.

The What: All Aboard: In and Around the Bridgeport Train Station; Gregory Circle in Norwalk; and more
Even if it didn't feel like it this weekend, summer is here! (Photo by Kelly Prinz)

Tuesday, May 26

Happy Tuesday! I know the weekend was pretty awful this weekend, but hope you all got to spend some time with family and friends. Let’s see what’s happening this last week of May. 

Highlights 

This section gives a brief overview of the key items in the newsletter.

Spotlight

This section features our main reporting each week.

A transit-oriented regional hub. That’s the vision laid out for the Bridgeport Train Station and area around it in Plan Bridgeport, the city’s 10-year master plan. 

“One of Bridgeport’s greatest assets is its accessibility through many forms of transit, including interstate and state highways, heavily utilized railways, regional bus facilities, a regional airport and a ferry service connecting to Long Island,” the plan states.

And all of those converge around the train station. The station itself is located along Metro North’s New Haven line, connects to the Waterbury branch line, and is an Amtrak stop. Reports estimate that more than 10,000 transit riders from all of the different modes pass through the station each day. In addition, the station is a major hub for the Greater Bridgeport Transit bus service and the Port Jefferson Ferry.

The station is also bordered by the Bridgeport Harbor and is just a few blocks from the city’s downtown.

While no sites located right next to the station are being developed (such as the ones under construction in South Norwalk), the surrounding half mile radius or so has multiple projects in the works that could transform the area into “a transit-oriented hub for commercial, retail, and entertainment activity to supplement a growing high-density residential neighborhood.”

Let’s explore the station area and look inside some of the projects currently in the works.

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The Bridgeport train station area is home to many modes of transportation—rail, buses, and even ferries. And it’s also featured in many city plans as Bridgeport aims to add more transit-oriented development to the area. We’ve got more in our newsletter coming out on Monday. You can sign up at the link in our bio. #fairfieldcounty #connecticut #bridgeportct

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This Week at a Glance

This section includes a list of meetings, events, and programming happening around southwest Connecticut each week.

Bridgeport

Featured Meeting: The Ordinance Committee will meet on Wednesday, May 27 at 6 p.m. and review a proposed amendment that would aim to prohibit “immigration enforcement on or in city-owned or operated spaces.”

Stamford

Featured Meeting: The Legislative & Rules Committee will meet on Tuesday, May 26 at 7 p.m. and host a public hearing on the city leasing property on Courtland Avenue for school bus parking. 

Norwalk

Featured Meeting: The City Council will meet on Tuesday, May 26 at 7:30 p.m. and review a proposal to spend $246,000 on design and engineering work for a traffic safety project at Gregory Boulevard and Fifth Street; as well as to accept $255,000 in grant funding for work at Andrews Field.

  • Tuesday, May 26: Board of Health at 8 a.m. | Conservation Commission at 6 p.m. | Urban Forestry Commission at 6 p.m. | City Council at 7:30 p.m. 
  • Wednesday, May 27: Harbor Management Commission at 6 p.m. | Parking Authority at 6 p.m. | Facilities Committee of the Board of Education at 6 p.m. | Community Services Committee at 7 p.m.
  • Thursday, May 28: Public Safety and General Government Committee at 7 p.m. 

Fairfield

Featured Meeting: The Representative Town Meeting will officially vote on Tuesday, May 26 at 8 p.m. on the town’s $400 million budget for 2026-2027. Also on Tuesday, May 26, the Town Plan and Zoning Commission will review a proposal to add a “transit community middle housing district” that would allow up to nine units on residential lots that are at least one acre and located between I-95 and the Metro North Railroad.

Greenwich

Featured Meeting: The Planning & Zoning Commission will review an application for Davis Avenue and Home Place that would bring 18 units—including four affordable units—across nine buildings at its meeting on Wednesday, May 27 at 4 p.m. 

Darien

Featured Meeting: The Planning & Zoning Commission will meet on Tuesday, May 26 at 7 p.m. and continue reviewing an application from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church to construct a new two-story addition to the Person-to-Person Food Pantry. 

Westport

Featured Meeting: There will be a joint meeting of the RTM Finance, RTM Public Works, RTM Parks & Recreation and RTM Library, Museum & Arts Committees on Tuesday, May 26 at 7 p.m., where the groups will review a variety of items including an appropriation to cover $80,890 in snow removal overages at the train stations, and appropriate $931,225 for storm-related expenses. 

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Please note: All of these agendas and information here are current as of Sunday night. Meeting times and agendas may get adjusted throughout the week.

Have a great week,

Kelly Prinz

Founder, Reporter at Coastal Connecticut Times

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