Enfield Street residents are on the verge of setting the town's future
Planning and Zoning Commission capture from video on YouTube. Pastel effect added. The Felician Sisters senior and workforce housing project prompted a backlash in Enfield. Enfield Street area residents organized effectively against it. They lined a long stretch of the street with signs in opposition and turned out at various Planning and Zoning Commission hearings to speak against it. They defeated the project and moved on to a new target: Enfield's future. The goal is to make building any type of multi-family housing difficult. Multi-family has become the key to the town's economic future. There is a fight in this community over something you need to be aware of, the Plan of Conversation and Development or POCD. This document will set the town's planning direction for the next ten years, and its recommendations are consequential. The Enfield I grew up in the 1960s is radically different today. We had many, many children back then. In the 1960s, only 13% of households