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A rundown on how each state representative voted on the zoning reform bill.
Myth: The Planning and Development Committee’s proposed bills would end our local decision making on zoning and land-use.
Fact (Spin from Democrats): This legislation empowers local communities to plan for the future. Nothing in any proposed Planning and Development Committee bill eliminates local decision making on zoning and land-use. Instead, these changes add clarity, transparency and consistency to local zoning regulations.
a. Connecticut law (8-2) gives the authority to regulate land use to the 169 towns and cities in our state.
b. These bills move Connecticut’s law, written almost 100 years ago, into the 21st century, providing tools and frameworks for municipalities to create their own goals, plans and processes.
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A bill on the desk of Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont would rewrite the state’s zoning code and is supposed to create more fair and equitable housing.
The reform package requires cities and towns to allow more affordable housing. Sara Bronin is with Desegregate CT the group behind the bill.
“This bill will enable a more diverse housing stock that will benefit a wide variety of Connecticut residents, including the elderly, young people, young families and people who are forced right now to live very far away from where they work simply because there’s no housing available in the area that they work,” Bronin said.
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“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.