Input your Name and Town to email the below 2 Petitions to your legislators
HOUSING AUTHORITY EXPANSION PETITION
Legislators:
Municipalities need a mix of commercial, industrial, mixed use, TOD, and residential growth for economically vibrant downtowns to create local jobs and services and prevent overburdening residential property taxpayers.
DO NOT PASS:
SB207 – Outside Housing Authority can expand in other municipality without permission leads to overburdened infrastructure and unaccountable absentee landlords.
HB5336 –Do not tie Affordable Housing Tax Credits to current Fair Share methodology not approved by legislators. Traps affordable funding in areas without transit, jobs, demand or services. State heads of CHFA and OPM spoke against this method.
HB5390 – DesegregateCT’s “Build Big & Lease” mandates 3 types of “as of right” multifamily development everywhere in a municipality that has transit, not just in ½ mile TOD, causing sprawl:
1) middle housing to 9 units;
2) 8-30g’s over 10 units – no health & safety reviews, ending any denial
3) projects with >50% affordable on state, town, housing authorities, or non-profit lots. Duplicative bill makes towns opt in, set a TOD and cede all decisions to state zoning czar for discretionary funding.
AS-OF-RIGHT DEVELOPMENT PETITION
Legislators:
Developer “pump and dump” bills create market value rentals, not affordable home ownership, causing adverse local impacts on infrastructure and the environment. As-of-right causes exponential multifamily growth. sprawl, ends public hearings and site-specific oversight by land use committees.
DO NOT SUPPORT:
HB5174 – significant safety and health concerns on homeless shelters at churches.
HB5475 – can evict seniors from operating nursing homes to redevelop residential; environmental lawsuits non-compliance on wetlands oversight by town; limits property owners right to appeal harms from zoning.
SB416 – allowing industrial conversions to residential can overburden residential property taxpayers and cause environmental contamination concerns from past uses.
HB5473 – allows alternative sewer systems (with high failure rates) in non-sewer areas, which causes environmental/health emergencies and costly remediation paid by taxpayers. Ending municipal design review bulldozes historical assets & requires less affordable built by developers.