The dude should be homeless, it is astonishing that someone can declare bankruptcy yet still get paid enough to live a rich lifestyle.

Voluntown has solved this pretty well, in some areas, with zone overlays. It still needs work, but the lake zone and town center zone overlays have been effective at creating pretty good development over the years.

I think we'll have to update regs on the main zones and general regs, though, because we're running into issues with new construction being solely in the 3k sq ft range and a low number of empty or new lots being sold. Town center zoning could expand; we could drop rear lot size (4 acres -> 2 acres) and limits (3 -> 5); we should allow ADU's on all lots and encourage their construction, especially in town center, through tax breaks for ADU's used as long term rentals; I'm also a fan of the idea of creating a town center center zoning overlay that encourages 2-over-1 mixed-use buildings (home or apartments over commercial).

This dude is crazy. Walkable neighborhoods that prioritize people and mobility over cars will always be more desirable and do better than single family car dependent areas. It’s simple math. A lot of Rhee people will never understand that middle density still helps affordability and creates resilient prosperous areas. They just think “they are going to take my house away” .. no. Let’s just open up more areas to have the flexibility they desire. You won’t get through to people like this sadly.

>absurdly cheap

Cheaper sure, but not absurdly cheap. That's laughable.

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Imagine being mad about sidewalks

It would be blatantly unconstitutional to have an official government position on witchcraft, per the First Amendment

Damn the state economy, the poor, and anyone younger than me. I want to spend my last days staring at cornfields.

I just don’t know how they depend on Hartford. Employment - sure many work in Hartford, but many don’t. Pay their fair share of what? Many people work in a town or city that they don’t live in. Would this fair share apply to everyone then? That’d get messy quickly.

Let's not forget without NYC Connecticut is basically West Rhode Island.

I was mostly just rambling so sorry if any of my points werent clear or connected properlly. I do however agree with lots of what you said.... and onto more rambling by me......The town next door needs something like what you said. Right now they require 200ft of frontage 1.2ish acre min and has to have 6 frontage lots for every rear lot in subdivision. Dead end subdivsion culdesacs are limited to 10ISH maybe 12 houses... then the town makes the developer put a high% of each lot of a chunk of land into open space.. ie 40 acres has 10 , 2 acre lots and rest goes into conservation. Just ridiculous.. the only reason I can think of why they made it so restrictive was because a large part of it is a lake town that went through sprawl in the late 70s,80s, 90s and these regs were the solution to slow down development in early 00s which seems to of worked. But now P&Z is recognizing the negative effects and are looking to ease the regs, ie 150ft lot frontage instead 200.. or 15-20 house on culdesac vs 10/12. Still not enough though.

I just think that the nicer suburban towns depend on their neighboring cities for their prosperity and standard of living. I feel like there should be some mechanism to ensure that they pay their fair share, rather than walling themselves off administratively.

Less whoosh and more like NYC transplant that doesn't know better.

The problem is not zoning that allows building. Eventually money will win out and land will be developed.

Fighting development means that you have less power to control what kind of development you see. If you want to protect farmland, you allow new construction in the town center, decrease lot size requirements in town center, allow and even encourage ADU's on lots of all sizes, and allow small multifamily (duplex to 4-plex) on large lots. You also want to encourage the small "starter" homes through quick-and-easy permitting reform to allow houses sub 2k sq ft express permitting and encouraging modular (not mobile) construction practices. You can also do lot splits with the requirement that any houses built on the new lots be under a certain sq ft size or cap sq footage as a function of lot size or zone, but I like those options less.

Your complaint that house prices have jumped is because inventory is too low. There are always going to be investors looking to buy up houses and either flip or rent them. When new inventory is consistently being built, rental prices in your town come down and individuals have a better chance of securing a purchase. It doesn't take much to do. Voluntown, for example, could get by with maybe 10-20 new houses a year? But that's not what's happening.

Whoosh

/r/leopardsatemyface

NIMBY. Learned a new word today. Thanks for that.

Didn't realize you were Master CT. Just piss off

theres a lot areas of this state that became over developed suburb post ww2. I really dont want my farm town in Eastern CT to turn into Glastonbury or East Hartford. You have to have some degree of zoning to keep that out. A big issue in my area is most locals cant afford to buy houses here because the inflated house prices. Everything just gets bought out by transplants that work from home, or by rental investors. 150k starter house is now 250k-300k here. I dont think people really realize how quickly things change around them when you allow easy development. My grandfather literally tells me stories of growing up on dirt roads with tobacco farms all around Windsor/Glastonbury/EH when he was growing up in the 40s/50s and its ALL gone. My grandmother grew up in Bloomfield right by the big cemetery and it was all farmland. Zoning helps slow this... If you get rid of NIMBY you end up with towns like Ellington and South Windsor that lost their soul to development in the last two decades. Seriously look at google earth, its so heartbreaking how fast those towns got developed.. all that beautiful farmland gone forever. Problem is when they DO build houses in my area they almost always seem to be upscale expensive homes that are EXPENSIVE and attract a certain type of audience aka yuppie snobs. I honestly think affordable “working man” subdivisions are a thing of the past in most parts of this state. Theres just not enough land anymore and its filling up.

Specifically the town of Fairfield

Screams in Fairfield County

It was actualy a chimp that ate that womans face.

And yet do you realize how hot our markets are compared to other parts of the country. The prices and the demand speak for themselves

Perhaps. I like that area and do believe in supporting local, even while traveling. Good luck to your friends and community.

Spoken like someone that doesn't realize just how absurdly cheap houses are in significant parts of rural CT.