Cathy Fales, the owner of Chuckin’it, a business that provides dumpsters and yard bags for clean outs and demolitions, has withdrawn her application for a special permit to operate her business out of her Easton residence.
Fales wrote to the Planning and Zoning Commission on April 2, stating that she was withdrawing her application to “park one commercial vehicle and a nearly empty dumpster in a newly constructed steel building on the property located at 120 Maple Road.” She withdrew her application in part due to “the extreme neighborhood negativity and the untruths about the nature of our business,” according to the letter.
Fales’s special permit application was the subject of a Planning and Zoning Commission public hearing on March 19. Several residents living next to Fales urged the commission to deny Fales the special permit. They claimed her business has for years disrupted the tranquility of their neighborhood, negatively impacted their property values, and is an environmental and health hazard.
“I’m happy (Fales) made the right decision,” said Mona Mitri, a neighbor who has complained about the loud noise from dumpsters being dropped off on Fales’s property.
Fales’s business has been the subject of numerous town zoning violations dating back to 2019. In 2020, when Fales did not comply with a cease-and-desist order and remove the commercial vehicles and construction equipment, the town took her to court.
A Superior Court judge in October upheld the town’s cease-and-desist order against Fales for illegally operating a business and for storing commercial vehicles and construction and commercial equipment on her Maple Road property without a special permit.
The judge ordered Fales to erect an appropriate screen around the property at the direction of the zoning enforcement officer, which Fales said she did. The judge then ordered her to file a special permit application for her to legally operate her business.
Justin Giorlando, Easton’s land use coordinator, said Fales told the Planning and Zoning Commission that she has rented a parcel of land outside of town and will be removing the truck and dumpster equipment from her Maple Road property by April 10. Fales will keep the non-commercial pick-up trucks on the property.
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