Longtime Greater Danbury regional planner Jon Chew is retiring today after 40 years of service. He has been employed by various regional planning councils in Connecticut since 1973, and is a former member of the Beacon Falls Economic Development Commission, and the Central Naugatuck Regional Planning Commission. Chew has provided consultant management and other planning services in recent years within the Western Connecticut Council of Government's transportation program. He also helped launch several new initiatives including the Drug Task Force and the Economic Development Advisory Group.