Concrete recycling company accuses zoning official of bias

O&G Industries, Torrington, Connecticut, is accusing a Bridgeport, Connecticut zoning official of bias, a report by The Connecticut Post says.

The Bridgeport Zoning Board of Appeals recently made a decision that O&G operated its concrete recycling facility illegally after complaints of visible debris on the company’s property, the report says, and a cease-and-desist order was issued in April.

According to the report, the company is taking the zoning board’s decision to court with an accusation that a male board member should have recused himself from the vote because of his “personal knowledge of the issues beyond the evidence of record,” a court document submitted by the company’s attorneys said.

While O&G’s legal counsel, Fairfield, Connecticut-based Q&R Associates, will not comment to The Connecticut Post, the report says there are two males on the board. Michael Piccirllo said in his interview that he was not aware of what O&G was referring to in its accusation. An alternate board member who sat in for an absent member, Oyiboka Benson, was not available for comment to The Connecticut Post.

According to the report, no accusations were made by the company prior to the board’s decision.