Letter to the Editor: An Open Letter to the People of Old Lyme—Take Action to Support the Halls Road Overlay District

An Open Letter to the People of Old Lyme:

Dear Neighbor, 

Guided change will allow Halls Road to better serve Old Lyme in the 21st century. 

The proposed Halls Road Overlay District allows the private investment needed to create a new, mixed-use town center there, scaled to the needs of Old Lyme: 

•  Smaller scale housing for down-sizing seniors and young families, 
•  Browse-able retail street, 
•  Walkable, bikeable, living neighborhood,
•  A viable alternative to Halls Road being dominated by highway services – its likely future without HROD.

For the full details on the Halls Road Overlay Zoning, please go to Town of Old Lyme website at  https://www.oldlyme-ct.gov/343/Halls-Road-Improvements-Committee .

Halls Overlay Zoning has been fully reviewed and approved by the Old Lyme Planning Commission, carefully reviewed by the Old Lyme Economic Development Commission and the Old Lyme Zoning Commission has reviewed at several meetings and is now scheduled for its Final Zoning Hearing.

Opponents of Halls Zoning are ‘flooding the zone’ with wild exaggerations and outright lies. We need your help to show such scare tactics cannot work in Old Lyme. 

PLEASE TAKE ACTION

Come and show your support for a better future for Old Lyme. 

1. SHOW UP at Zoning Hearing.
2. BRING FRIENDS to show that people care about this.
3. SPEAK UP at the Hearing.

WHAT: Old Lyme Zoning Hearing

WHEN: Thursday, 6:30pm February 27, 2025

WHERE: Old Lyme Middle School Auditorium

If you cannot attend please share this email with like-minded friends. Also please submit a Support Letter (Either copy, sign and email/mail this Support Letter or use it to write your own.)

Send via email or mail to below:

Postal: (must arrive before February 27)                
Old Lyme Zoning Commission                                                    
52 Lyme Street, Old Lyme Memorial Town Hall
Old Lyme, CT 06371

Eric Knapp <eknapp@oldlyme-ct.gov>
cc: Craig Bonatti <cbonatti@oldlyme-ct.gov>

Thank you for your time and your consideration of this important matter.

Sincerely,

Edie Twining,
Old Lyme.

Editor’s Note: The author is the Halls Road Improvements Committee Chair