The Daily Five: A Drawing For Moorings, New Developments Afoot, Low Water and Wastewater, And Shall We Dance?

1. Hard to believe there was a frost warning issued for inland Connecticut last night. Still, today should be mostly sunny and warm, with a high temperature of 61 degrees and an overnight low of 41 degrees, according to www.weather.com. 

2. Gateway, the large mixed use development of residential and retail that is proposed to fill the space on Flanders Road near Exit 74, is moving forward. Tonight, East Lyme Inland Wetlands Agency will hold a special meeting that includes a public hearing on Gateway Development East Lyme's application for regulated activities within 100-feet of a wetland located at properties identified in the application as Ancient Highway, 286, 284, and 282 Flanders Road, and portions of Society Road in Niantic. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at East Lyme Town Hall. 

3. A few interesting projects popped up on the agenda at Old Lyme's Zoning Commission last night. One was to modify the design of the clam shack that's being built as an added feature at the site of the former Cherrystone's Restaurant on Shore Road. The change was minor, Big Green Outdoors (which bought the property) needed to add a vent for the kitchen, but it's a sign that things are moving forward.

The other was an application for a special permit to allow a dance center to open at 19 Halls Road. A public hearing will be scheduled for that application from The Dance Center of Old Lyme. Shall we dance? 

4. If you recall, the reason for Old Lyme's big push to start the feasibility study for the development of a town-based wastewater management system was to take soil tests when the water was highest in the spring. Typically, that would be the end of April and early May, but this April brought few spring showers.

The unseasonably dry weather will likely be a topic for discussion at tonight's meeting of the Old Lyme's Wastewater Management Task Force. The Task Force will be getting a progress report from Woodard & Curran on scope and timetable for testing previously identified properties that might be good locations for a treatment system.

Old Lyme First Selectwoman Bonnie Reemsnyder will also be recapping the meeting she had with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection last week to discuss the project. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. at Old Lyme Memorial Town Hall. 

5. There are just three moorings sites available at Hamburg Cove and 16 people who want one of them. So how is the town going to decide who gets one? Town of Lyme Harbor Master Gary Reynolds will be holding a lottery drawing at the next Lyme Board of Selectmen's meeting on May 20 at 3:30 p.m. at Lyme Town Hall. Good luck!