“Keeping planning and zoning local” is precisely what got us into this mess in the first place.
We aren’t overbuilding those stupid luxury megacondos because zoning isn’t strict enough, we’re building them because the zoning laws we have are corrupt and keep too many property owners from following the market and doing whatever the % &! they want with their own property.
Notice how these Republicans
aren’t backing a law that would free up their vaunted “free market” to solve CT’s housing crisis?
Look, these guys don’t all have to be racist jerks in order for them to simply be misguided. And they’re just as misguided as the Democrats, in this case! Affordable housing carveouts are almost as horrible of a policy as rent control.
Plan to divert 14.2M gallons a day to southwestern CT awaits a decision by state officials
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A fisherman tries out a new fishing spot on the Mill River in Fairfield on Sunday, March 21, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
The fate of a proposal that would essentially double the amount of water diverted from the Greater Bridgeport system to southwestern Connecticut now rests in the hands of the state.
Environmental groups and residents from the Fairfield area spent two public hearings this past week objecting to a permit now before the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, citing negative impacts on residents and the watershed.
UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 5:57 am ET
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Fairfield environmental advocates are concerned about how a diversion proposal would affect the Mill River watershed. (Google Maps)
FAIRFIELD, CT Fairfield residents and representatives voiced environmental concerns Tuesday about a proposal to double the amount of water diverted from the local system, including Cricker Brook and the Mill River watershed, to towns such as Greenwich and Stamford.
Aquarion Water Co. has filed an application with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to increase its diversion permit from 7.3 million gallons per day to 14.2 million gallons per day from the Bridgeport water system to the county s southwest region. The permit would require an annual diversion average of 12.6 million gallons per day, would last 25 years and would see a pipeline added in Fairfield in 2029.