We are asking you to sign this petition, attend and speak at the Greenwich RTM Zoom on March 14th, write letters to our Governor Ned Lamont and to your local legislators so they know we want action on something that’s critical to development in all 169 towns in Connecticut.

Developers are using Connecticut state statute CGS 8-30g as a way to circumvent local planning and zoning guidelines ACROSS the State. Let us support development not developers.

In recent years, the state’s 8-30g housing and development regulations have become unworkable and burdensome on Greenwich and many other towns across Connecticut. By now most Greenwich residents have heard something about “8-30g buildings,” the new, large-scale housing projects that developers have proposed for many parts of town. They’ve prompted questions and conversation about affordable housing, Connecticut state law and local zoning regulations.

As elected members of your town government, we wanted to let you know that the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) will take up a bipartisan resolution we drafted for the March 14 RTM meeting, which recommends actions and state law amendments to better address the needs of vulnerable populations and development oversight in the Town of Greenwich.

Developers are using Connecticut state statute CGS 8-30g as a way to circumvent local planning and zoning guidelines. If built, their developments will affect our environment and our infrastructure for years to come. Our “sense of the meeting resolution” (SOMR) urges our town’s leaders to increase affordable housing, while also calling on our legislative delegation to work with the Governor and the legislature to grant relief from unfair and potentially harmful provisions of 8-30g.

This is a non-binding resolution, but it will send a strong message from the people of Greenwich to Hartford, and may prompt other towns throughout Connecticut to follow suit, since only 31 of the other 169 towns in our state have achieved affordable housing levels that exempt them from 8-30g. 

Sign this petition, attend the RTM Zoom on March 14th, express your support, write letters to our Governor Ned Lamont, write letters to your legislators.  

Emails:

Kimberly.Fiorello@housegop.ct.gov,

harry.arora@cga.ct.gov

Stephen.Meskers@cga.ct.gov

Ryan.Fazio@ctsenaterepublicans.com