A Push for Zoning Reform in Connecticut
Momentum is growing for multifamily housing to be built in a state full of detached single-family houses.
The historic town green in the affluent suburb of Woodbridge, which is being pressured by housing activists to ease its zoning restrictions to allow multifamily housing.Credit.Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
By Lisa Prevost
Feb. 26, 2021
A broad-based zoning reform movement is gathering momentum in Connecticut, as racial justice activists step up their efforts to break down barriers to affordable housing and economic opportunity at a time of national awakening around such issues.
DesegregateCT, an all-volunteer organization founded by Sara C. Bronin, a Mexican-American lawyer and architect, is lobbying state lawmakers to enact sweeping reform by amending statutory zoning guidelines to force suburban and rural communities to allow more multifamily housing, particularly near transit centers and downtowns.