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Hugh Bailey: Environmental arguments against housing don t hold water
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A sign notifies residents of low water levels at Putnam Reservoir in Greenwich last year.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
Your suburb is not sustainable. The woods in your backyard do not make you environmentally friendly, and your car-dependent lifestyle is not saving the planet.
The fight to keep Connecticut exactly as it is and never change anything, which is what opponents of zoning reform are waging, has taken a number of forms. There have been arguments in favor of local control. There has been a lot of talk of neighborhood character. There has been outrage that anyone could ever think high-minded Connecticut suburbs could possibly have been built on racism (though they were).