AVON- — After nearly a year, the clock is starting to tick more rapidly to finish a settlement in a pair of lawsuits with the developers of the Village at Avon.
Those lawsuits — one each filed by the town and developers – date to 2009, and have cost both parties millions in legal fees. A settlement “term sheet” to end the case without going to court was signed in October of last year, just weeks before the cases were to go to trial. Since then, the town and developers have spent untold hours, and still more in legal fees, to reach a final settlement that involves a host of changes to the plan originally approved in 1998.
Earlier this year, at the urging of District Judge Thomas Moorhead, the developers and the town set an October deadline to get the deal done. Looming past October are a couple of complications.
The first is the Nov. 6 election, which will bring two, and perhaps three, new members to the Avon Town Council.
Council members Amy Phillips and Kristi Ferraro are leaving due to term limits laws. Buz Reynolds is running for re-election.
Phillips and fellow council member Chris Evans said that change makes it imperative to bring some kind of resolution to the case before those council members leave.
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