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Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Mansions are lined up along Oenoke Ridge in New Canaan. The area is zoned for a 4-acre, single-family home. On a sunny spring afternoon in 2016, Richard Freedman went on a bike ride through New Canaan. The housing developer was fresh off a disappointment. He had applied to build housing for low-income people in Westport, but his plan had just been rejected. As he rode through the hillsides that afternoon where mansions with gated entrances were separated from each other by four acres and stone walls Freedman wondered whether civil rights groups or developers would ever find a way to change zoning laws so that more than one housing unit could be built on these huge lots. The properties take up most of the town and largely shut out those who need affordable housing. ....