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I’m packing my bags for an all-nighter at the State Capitol to defend local zoning control and to oppose House Bill 5002 tomorrow, May 22nd if it’s called!
At 2:45PM today, the Connecticut House majority dropped a 90+ page bombshell zoning bill on the public that demands towns create thousands of new units of affordable housing, regardless of how much land they have and, instead, based solely on how much taxable property they have in their towns. It deprioritizes grant funding for towns that refuse to create transit oriented development, it eliminates minimum parking requirements on zoning applications, and it reduces transparency by making it harder to protest changes to zoning regulations. Imagine a new 24 unit development getting approved next to YOUR house with NO parking requirements and NO public hearings. It can happen if HB 5002 passes on May 22nd!
Contact your mayor, your town leaders, and your state representatives and tell them to stop this insanity and vote NO on HB 5002!
