2001 Candidates
Nelson GelfmanPlanning and Zoning Commission
2001 Candidates
Nelson Gelfman
Dr. Nelson A. Gelfman is one of the longest-serving Ridgefield elected officals currently in office. He has served on Planning and Zoning for 34 years, and once again is offering himself to the voters as a candidate for relection.
Nels Gelfman is a physician who moved to Ridgefield in 1964 and served as a full-time hospital-based physician in pathology and renal dialysis from 1962 to 1997. He received a B.S. from Rutgers University in 1950; an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954; served a rotating internship at the University of Wisconsin from 1954-55; and served the United States Air Force as a Flight Surgeon from 1956-58. Graduate training at Yale and the West Haven Veterans Hospital ended in 1962, when he started working in the Danbury Hospital laboratory. Currently semi-retired, he is the Medical Director of the Pathology Assistants Program at Quinnipiac University.
The Gelfman family have lived in the same house ever since their arrival in Ridgefield in 1964. Dr. Gelfman’s public service activities started with the Scotland and Branchville Schools’ Building Committees (elected in those days), then membership on the Conservation Commission. He was first appointed to a vacancy on the Planning and Zoning Commission in 1967 and has been elected to subsequent terms ever since. He served as Commission Chairman from 1992 through 1998, and is currently vice chairman. This year, he is running with his Democratic team mate, the current Chairman, Di Masters.
Dr. Gelfman feels that the greatest challenge facing Ridgefield today is:
In identifying his priorities, Dr. Gelfman enumerated five critical issues, ranked by importance:
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2001 Candidates