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Originally Posted by JayCT
Now a group of prominent New Haven attorneys are challenging the single family zoning laws in Woodbridge. This is a pretty biased article unfortunately. I remember when the town bought the golf course, it was to preserve open space, not to stop affordable housing. That may have been mentioned but it was not the reason. Seems very based to focus the article on that rather than being more objective. Will be interesting to see where this goes. Jay
https://ctmirror.org/2020/09/29/ct-c...-as-test-case/
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I keep telling everyone here that the towns bordering the cities are under pressure about building affordable housing just like Trumbull has been but I keep getting pooh-poohed on here. This is not going to stop. Watch what happens....they won't bother Bethany etc. because it's too far for the buses to take the low income residents in for their services in the cities.
The state doesn't bother Monroe, Newtown or even Easton/Shelton? (which is a head scratcher). Trumbull and Fairfield are getting pressured because our bordering areas have good bus service into the cities. I guess the bus service to Easton or Shelton is not that great but that can be remedied. Stratford is left alone because they have 6.39%.
It's a good thing Trumbull started taking matters into our own hand about 10 years ago. Trumbull only has one large style low income housing we have for the seniors. We have a big mix of different kinds of low income housing so you can't really notice where it is in the town.
For example:
*Deeded accessory apartments
*Deeded condos to buy with income restrictions
*Apartments building (many coming online soon) with a % of affordable apartments but over 90% are market rate.
*We now have mixed use with affordable apartments but there is not a big block of apartments, only a few.
*Many of the historic homes on Main Street are now 2 and 3 family houses and I believe many of those are affordable too. I helped get the law into Trumbull that you CAN'T change the exterior of a historic house in the Main Roads.
Trumbull is building it's affordable housing stock while keeping the town nice and desirable.
I think 5% is kind of the magic number where they leave you alone. In 2019 Trumbull had 4.68 and I bet with all the new apartments with the % of affordable housing we get to 5%. That is why we got the moratorium on affordable housing.
As of 2019 Woodbridge is 1.24% and they border New Haven. They are going to keep going at Woodbridge like a freight train.
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/DOH/20...for-online.pdf
West Haven 14.42%
Woodbridge 1.24%
Hamden 8.67%
East Haven 8.03%
Branford 3.36% (I included Branford because East Haven is so thin and western Branford is not far from New Haven)
After Woodbridge..... Branford will be next.
Woodbridge better start taking matters into their own hands NOW.