How You Can Help

Here are several ways you can help keep big boxes out of Guilford:

1. Please spread the word to all your friends about the urgency of their participation in the public hearing process.

2. Attend, ask questions and/or present your views at the PZC Public Hearings. See new schedule below. All hearings begin at 7:30 pm in the Community Center. (Please note that the PZC may change these dates again. Stay tuned to this website for updates.)

  • Hearing #1 – October 27 – for Costco presentation, questions by PZC/public, fiscal study available
  • Hearing #2 – November 17 – Presentations by Town Boards/Commissions & staff, questions by PZC/public, traffic & gravity studies availableli>
  • Hearing #3 – December 1 – GCRD presentation, questions by PZC/public, pros and cons from public
  • Hearing #4 – December 15 – Continued pros and cons from public
  • Hearing #5 – January 5 – Costco rebuttal

3. Make a contribution to GCRD to help pay legal costs. GCRD has hired a land-use attorney and a consultant planner to testify at the public hearings. Expenses could be as much as $10,000. If you can help, please make out a check to GCRD and send it to PO Box 38, Guilford, CT 06437.

4.  Write a letter to PZC Chairman Ray Bower by October 27 at planning.zoning@ci.guilford.ct.us and send a copy to First Selectman Joe Mazza at mazzaj@ci.guilford.ct.us. All letters sent to the PZC will become part of the public record and must be counted. While the Board of Selectmen does not have an official role in this decision, it is important that they be aware of your point of view.

5.  Write a letter to the editors of local papers before October 27.   Sue Braden, Shoreline Times shorelinetimes@ctcentral.com (Letters must be received and confirmed by 5pm Thursday for publication on the following Thursday.  Maximum 300 words.) Brian Boyd, Guilford Courier news@shorepublishing.com (Letters must be received by 10am on Wednesday for publication on Friday of the following week.  Maximum 400 words.) New Haven Register letters@nhregister.com