With a state
order to consolidate planning oversight hanging over its head, the Central
Connecticut Regional Planning Agency is in the process of splitting up.
Some of its
member municipalities are going to shift into the Hartford regional planning
agency – New Britain, for sure, and probably Southington, Plainville, Berlin
and Burlington as well.
Bristol is
eyeing Hartford, too, but hasn’t ruled out attaching itself to the agency
serving Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley.
Plymouth,
the other remaining town, is more likely to sign up with Waterbury’s agency,
but it is also weighing its options.
The state
set a Dec. 31 deadline for decisions to be made or it would simply step in and
tell communities where they’d be assigned.
There is
still some hope that the Bristol-based CCRPA could get a reprieve on its
pending demise, but officials aren’t counting on it.
The agency
has been in Bristol since 1973.
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