Court Opinion

ID: 9733296
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:02:03.851645+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:40.307950
License: Public Domain

Murphy, J.
(concurring in the result). The opinion does not emphasize, as I think it should, the lack of any evidence before the commission, by any official authorized to speak for the town of Fairfield, to the effect that Fairfield will widen Park Avenue on the Fairfield side of the boundary line so as to double the present width of the avenue from Brook-lawn Avenue north to Toilsome Hill Road and make a uniform four-lane highway. The mere statement by the attorney for Inter-Church Residences, Inc., that Fairfield is aware of the situation and is prepared to do the job when it feels it is needed falls far short of a definite plan by Fairfield to do the work which the Bridgeport planning commission in its report indicated is needed at this time, regardless of the change of zone. See the record of a somewhat comparable situation in Gordon v. Zoning Board, 145 Conn. 597, 145 A.2d 746, and its resolution in Luery v. Zoning Board, 150 Conn. 136, 187 A.2d 247, after evidence was presented to the zoning board of actual contracts for the road construction deemed necessary in the light of the opinion in Gordon. Furthermore, in the present ease, one of the residents on the Fairfield side of Park Avenue testified that for twelve years he had been unable to get any definite information of the layout of that avenue in this area from the town engineer, that is, from the same source as was given for the statement of the attorney for Inter-Church Residences, Inc. Hearsay statements cannot be accepted as proof of the facts asserted.