Local News:
The following information is brought to you as a public service announcement from the Town of Hebron, Connecticut.
Special Recognition
Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma Awareness Month
Annual Report Fiscal Year 2010-2011
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Seeking Volunteers for the Charter Revision Commission
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Hebron Press Release - Weather Related Information
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Hebron Code of Ethics
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Monthly Calendar Update
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Hebron Market Study
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The Town of Hebron and its Economic Development Commission has hired Peter Fairweather, of Fairweather Consulting, to conduct a Market Study of Hebron's Business District. Over a number of years, the Town of Hebron has made a commitment to reinvest in Hebron Center to create a successful, dynamic, and walkable Town center. This study will take another step in that process. The work will identify potential commercial uses that could be attracted to, or expanded in, Hebron. This will involve an analysis of the existing market potential in Hebron and the surrounding area, and an exercise to “benchmark” Hebron against other downtown centers to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of Hebron Center. The final result of this study will be to identify the types of uses for which Hebron Center has a competitive advantage and then to define an action plan to attract those uses to the Center. Over the past several weeks the consultant has reached out to businesses and other stakeholders including a discussion at the April 24th Business Breakfast Networking Meeting to seek their input.
A Public Information Meeting was held on May 8th at the Douglas Library to allow residents an opportunity to provide input.
Also, a website has been established for the study where you can learn more about this important effort, read reports as they are completed, and provide input. The website is www.hebronmarketstudy.com
Hebron Center Study - Housing for Economic Growth:
The Planning and Zoning Commission, through a $20,000 grant secured under the Housing for Economic Growth program, has been working with two consultants, Dennis Goderre – a Landscape Architect from Goderre and Associates and Mark Branse, Esq. from Branse, Willis & Knapp, LLC, in looking at a wide range of planning and zoning and economic development issues surrounding Hebron Center and future growth in the Center. The consultants are drafting zoning regulations for the Commission to consider to encourage future growth and development in Hebron Center. The goal is to create more economic development opportunities in a way that supports a more vibrant, walkable and mixed use Main Street. This was one of the strong opinions that came from Hebron residents through the UCONN Charrette process that was conducted last year. One of the tasks that the consultants are providing is a new document containing design guidelines for the commercial areas and multi-family residential areas that will provide more specific guidance to future development in Hebron. The goal is to provide for new development but in a way that is consistent with Hebron’s New England small town character. In this effort, a Visual Preference Survey was conducted which provided valuable information to thhe Town. For more information on the Study, go to the Study website: www.hebroncenterstudy.com
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Press Releases
Main Street Charrette Results:
Professor John Alexopoulos from the UCONN School of Landscape Architecture and his junior and senior Landscape Architecture students have completed a three part Main Street Charrette process with Hebron Residents. This process collected the ideas and vision of Hebron residents about our Main Street and how it should look in the future.
Click here to review their final presentation.
Salmon River Partnership:
The Town of Hebron along with nine other towns in the Salmon River watershed have entered into a Partnership with the Nature Conservancy in a multi-year effort to take actions to preserve and protect the water quality of the Salmon River that all these towns share. One of the first products of the Partnership is a "Salmon River Watershed Municipal Land Use Evaluation Project". This report reviews and makes recommendations on land use regulations and public works maintenance practices of all towns in the Watershed. The Partnership will be sponsoring workshops throughout the Watershed towns in the next several months.
For a full copy of the Salmon River Watershed Municipal Land Use Evaluation Project report, please Click Here.
"Testimonies of a Quiet New England Town: The Film" Testimonies vividly describes the 1787 seizure of the Connecticut slaves, Cesar and Lowis Peters and their eight children, and the family's ultimate rescue by their white Hebron neighbors. This event is the earliest documented abolitionist movement in New England.
For more information see the website: www.quiettestimoniesthefilm.org
General Code for our Town Code - Charter and Ordinances
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Volunteer Opportunities
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