Dear Eleanore Turkington:
During the late-night hours and if the police must come back the second time because of blasting loud music at a party disturbing the neighbors, who gets ticketed, the offenders or the landlord?
FT Allingtown
Dear FT Allingtown:
Councilman Peter Massaro answered your question, “The person who gets the ticket is the person who is living there, either the home owner or the tenant.”
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
Now that the warmer weather is approaching, the weekends in the Allingtown Flats is a nightmare with music blaring anywhere from 9 p.m., 1 a.m., 2, and even 3 a.m. My question is instead of the police just using an officer’s discretion, why not just ticket these people? This will never end unless tickets are issued. LIVE HERE TO BELIEVE IT!
N Allingtown Flats
Dear N Allingtown Flats:
We thank Councilman Peter Massaro for a response to this reader’s inquiry. “To answer the person on Westfield Street in the Sixth District, loud music can be enforced at any time of the day, but at night, usually the cut off period is at 10 p.m. Now it has to be really loud and remember the houses on Westfield Street are very close together.”
Dear Eleanore Turkington:
Once again, according to residents in the Beach Street neighborhood, “The pavement conditions on Beach Street have not improved. Several years ago, the residents of Oceanside Condominium requested the paving of Beach Street. The condition of that street is very bad. The street needs new paving as of today nothing was done.
“I Cvika, am a board of directors member of the 30 units, Oceanside Condominium. We are all paying very high taxes (over $1,000 per month) to the City of West Haven. On behalf of my fellow owners, I am requesting the paving of Beach Street Condominium. Noting that several streets in West Haven are being paved now, I am disappointed that Beach Street is not included. Please help. We need this improvement.”
Cvika Beach Street
You can watch for a response from your District Councilman to this letter in a future Gripe Vine.
Gripe Vine Readers: My turn to gripe:
I am sick and tired of encountering vehicles without their lights on at dusk. What is the status of driving without headlights on your car during the day light hours? I heard motorists are required to turn their car’s lights on when they turn their windshield wipers on. I have heard pros and cons with the law.
A little research provided some answers for me and hopefully for you as well.
Connecticut Law does not link the display of headlights to windshield wiper use. Instead, it requires a motor vehicle to display its headlights and other required lighting devices (1) from one-half after sunset to one half hour before sunrise, (2) at any time when due to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, people or vehicles are not clearly discernable at a distance of 500 feet, or (3) during any period of precipitation such as rain, snow or fog.
The legislature chose to word the last requirement to require headlight display, during periods of precipitation rather than whenever windshield wipers are being used because there are times, such as during sunny winter days, when the moisture from melting snow on the road may require a driver to use his windshield wipers, that turning on headlights would serve no useful purpose.
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Coming up: pot holes on West Spring and Stevens Street…$100 fine per day on curb trash…Nonquit Street patching…Timberline Drive vacant house gripe..Allingtown Green clock..grass clipping complaint..Highland Street parking issue..lighting at Ora Mason Library… taxes in Allingtown…snow parking ban and much more.