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Desegregate CT

Self-described goal: overhaul land use laws to be more inclusive by design. And expand housing by taking a regional approach to land use decisions to ensure state is more inclusive, by design.

Implementation

A bill proposed by Democrat Sen. Saud Anwar (LCO 3562) would eliminate single-family zoning statewide and allow city housing authorities to infringe on local town decisions within a 15-mile radius.

Commentary

The proposed bill requests significant changes to how zoning authority is exercised in Connecticut and continues the uncomfortable trend of transferring power from local government and concentrating it at the state level.

The move will provide no positive outcome. Housing diversity does not create racial diversity. It creates economic diversity. https://www.desegregatect.org/

https://www.cthousegop.com/lavielle/2020/07/27/should-the-state-control-your-local-zoning-laws/#:~:text=An%20advocacy%20group%20called%20DesegregateCT%2C%20which%20has%20circulated,site%2C%20but%20not%20on%20the%20General%20Assembly%E2%80%99s%20site.