New Brunswick is a little smaller than Danbury. I wonder how this kind of plan would go over there? The tallest building in Danbury appears to be about 10 stories
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New Brunswick is a little smaller than Danbury. I wonder how this kind of plan would go over there? The tallest building in Danbury appears to be about 10 stories
I want to make one thing crystal clear: neither I nor anyone else opposes truly affordable housing. We all want families in Orange and across Connecticut to have access to decent, attainable homes. However, the new housing law mirrors past affordable housing regulations that sound promising but often fail in practice. The state bureaucracy expands and well-connected developers and contractors profit, while those who need help most get lost in red tape and mismatched outcomes.
Conspicuously absent from this piece: A way to get affordable housing that the writer would in fact support
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Hard to argue, really.
Because it makes no sense.
But still, hard to argue
This is as good an example as you'll see of a writer saying, in effect, "I'm a straight news reporter, not an opinion writer, so I can't say outright this guy is full of it. But he's full of it"
Housing Committee poised to pass eviction reform bill ctmirror.org/2026/03/10/h...
"Batman was selected First-Team All-Great Lakes Region" is a true sentence
Did Hearst CT already kill the millennial therapist column? Where am I supposed to go to get millennial therapy?
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Hey, why are we doing this again?
“The bill proposed is, without a doubt, a drastic change to the current state,” Chris D’Antonio, vice chair of Enfield’s planning and zoning commission, testified.
Yes, that's the idea
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"What to know" is that he won't do a public option so he's been doing some weird version of this for years now and no one can make any sense of it
What to know about Lamont’s "CT option" plan for health care ctmirror.org/2026/03/02/c...
Can’t have people living there. In homes? That’s just crazy
Really stretching the definition of chaos aren’t we
I'd like to think my senator means this and will follow through
Also just love Ryan Fazio defending giant lot sizes as a defense of "diversity" in the state
Jim Bailey, policy director of the Hartford-based Open Communities Alliance, concurred that local zoning laws are largely to blame. “The number-one driver of housing unaffordability in most of the state is the cost of land, and mandating large lots is by definition exclusionary,” he said.
Hi, apparently my name is Jim now.
In any event, large minimum lot sizes are in fact the definition of exclusionary zoning and a major driver of our housing affordability crisis.
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Yeah who are the big "zoning is great" people we're supposed to rally behind? If you love large-lot zoning I think I know everything I need to know about you
So much talk about impervious surfaces. You'd never know there are places called cities that don't have any setbacks at all, and yet still control storm water as well as any suburb
Greenwich First Selectman Fred Camillo said Greenwich had spent millions of dollars since 2020 to mitigate flooding in certain areas of town where there is a lot of congestion with houses very close to each other. “This bill would add impervious surfaces to areas that can’t take it any more, he said. “My concern is going forward, as well-intentioned as a bill like this may be, is if the authors could work with the towns and environmental and conservation groups to pinpoint where these housing proposals could go.”
Easy answer here. They should go where there's water and sewer!
State Rep Arzeno said, “We have heard repeatedly from people of all political stripes that zoning is not the major leading factor in advancing housing diversity. We know that cost and infrastructure challenges are key issues. Yet this bill ignores both.”
Democrats as well as Republicans, because this is Greenwich.
Unanswered question here: If "zoning is not the major leading factor in advancing housing diversity" then there shouldn't be a problem changing it, right?
Greenwich, you'll be shocked to learn, is deeply concerned about SB 151.
We just signed a housing law! Isn't one housing law enough?
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Yeah you're not surviving that one
"One size fits all" as an anti-housing mantra has cross-state appeal, apparently
Oh the imperviousness of it all
Imagine supporting large-lot zoning and calling yourself an environmentalist
Listening to anti-housing people talk in this public hearing and it's clear that "impervious surfaces" is the new "local control."
Danbury's planning director makes some excellent points, but I think it's important to note how exclusionary zoning stops these conversations from even getting started in most of the state
Opinion: Connecticut housing reform does not stop at zoning www.courant.com/2026/02/11/o...
As always, no indication of what these people actually favor. They hate the process for getting homes built. Fine. What do you want? There's agreement that the crisis exists, so what now? And please spare us the "unleash the market" or whatever
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![Betsy Gara, executive director of the Connecticut Council of Small Towns, said one of the issues for municipal leaders with the original fair share proposal was that it didn’t consider sewage and wastewater capacity.
“We’re hopeful that this new methodology will fairly consider water and wastewater capacity. I know that the [sewage needs] study is not going to be done,” Gara said. “However, municipalities themselves are acutely aware of their limitations on wastewater and water capacity.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6vk7avlb4j6thi4muxiuai22/bafkreigb2oouddr5rnnyxll4koqnwvuzvlvnv6mhf5vatddmnszuiu3hiq)
Betsy Gara, executive director of the Connecticut Council of Small Towns, said one of the issues for municipal leaders with the original fair share proposal was that it didn’t consider sewage and wastewater capacity. “We’re hopeful that this new methodology will fairly consider water and wastewater capacity. I know that the [sewage needs] study is not going to be done,” Gara said. “However, municipalities themselves are acutely aware of their limitations on wastewater and water capacity.”
Small towns love to use sewage capacity as an excuse to do nothing on housing, as if whatever they have at this precise moment is etched in time, never to be changed
CT housing needs assessment required under H.B. 8002 underway ctmirror.org/2026/02/09/c...
It's tempting, I know, but there has to be a way to go at least a week without writing about Trump and RFK
Colin McEnroe (opinion): Gold for Trump, silver for Kanye, bronze for RFK. Welcome to the Winter Head Games. www.ctpost.com/opinion/arti...
What a fun chart
