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Development, zoning, land deals and the data reshaping the ZIP codes we cover, reported from the public record.
Older Home IndexFlorida
Florida has more neighborhoods in the index than any other state, and more near the top, from Tampa’s Palma Ceia to Miami’s Coconut Grove and Pinecrest.
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Arizona has four neighborhoods in the top 25 of the Older Home Index and Tennessee has two. In Brentwood, the largest sample in the index, most homes are newer.
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Birmingham, Michigan, and Wilmette, Illinois, lead a short list of neighborhoods with at least eight homes sampled, every one built in 1980 or earlier.
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Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts have 189 neighborhoods and towns in the index. Westport ranks highest, at 18th, and central Greenwich counts 11 older homes of 12.
Development
A 6-0 vote retired the special district written for a hotel and retail village that never got built. A smaller apartment plan from Spinnaker Real Estate Partners now sets the terms for the neighborhood around the train station.
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Policy
From the Hamlet denial to the Saugatuck rezoning, the commission’s major votes since July 2025, with names where they were reported.
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Town Hall
Two committees of the Representative Town Meeting voted against joining the Connecticut Municipal Development Agency. One member called the vote a matter of not becoming a test case.
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Development
An affiliate of Trammell Crow wants to put 250 apartments on a 21.9-acre office campus. At the September hearing, neighbors arrived with accounts of the Sept. 13 storm, and the review now resumes Oct. 28.
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Coast
A coastal engineer laid out options to rebuild five town beaches at a forum on Oct. 1. The town is still counting the cost of a storm that dropped about seven inches of rain.
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Town Hall
Westport’s first selectman inherited a revaluation, a new state housing law and a fight over a bridge. Here is where each stands, in his own words.
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Town Hall
RTM committees approved $185,000 for BFJ Planning to write a new Plan of Conservation and Development. The town’s planning director says the 2017 plan focused on preservation, not implementation.
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Infrastructure
The Connecticut Department of Transportation prefers a $78 million to $86 million replacement of the swing span. Four local groups want a rehabilitation that keeps the bridge low, and a town committee is weighing in.
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Commercial
The Architectural Review Board approved the grocer’s facade at 1460 Post Road East. Planning and Zoning is next.
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Policy
A text amendment would have let developers build required affordable units somewhere other than the project site. The chair voted for it and lost.
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Town Finance
Westport’s 2025 revaluation lifted residential values about 60 percent and pushed the grand list to $17.5 billion. The arithmetic moved more of the town’s bill onto homeowners.
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Infrastructure
The Sept. 13 storm left the bridge near the Westport Library so compromised that the town is weighing removing it before the replacement is ready. Design and permitting alone carry a $172,500 request.
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Development
A pre-application for 1431 Post Road East sketches a two-story indoor sports facility on 1.74 acres now home to Izzo & Son Country Gardens, Furniture on Consignment and Bar Lupa.
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Policy
Public Act 25-1 took effect in January. Westport rewrote its rules to comply in July, kept some parking controls on the Post Road, and is still collecting points toward an 8-30g moratorium.
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Commercial
Office buildings, a downtown mixed-use block and a former liquor store site have changed hands or changed plans in the past year. The ledger, deal by deal.
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Development
A pre-application would replace an 1890 office building at 34 Imperial Avenue with nine market-rate homes. One commissioner called it a big ask without a big benefit.
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Luxury
Five parcels on Beachside Avenue reset the town record last November. Since then a 1929 Tudor has sold for $15.5 million, a 1971 contemporary has come down for a $22.8 million new build, and eight houses sold above $5 million in a single quarter.
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Town Hall
The Board of Selectmen unanimously refused to let a stone wall remain in the town’s right of way at 19 Center Street, a half-acre bought in 2025 for $3,879,000.
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