Westport topic
Section 8-30g, Westport’s housing plan and the applications that test both.
DevelopmentAffordable Housing
Garden Homes Fund wants nine one-story duplexes at 96 Compo Road North, every unit affordable, in a single-family zone. The application relies on the state’s 8-30g statute, and no hearing date has been set.
DevelopmentSaugatuck
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.
PolicyVote Tracker
From the Hamlet denial to the Saugatuck rezoning, the commission’s major votes since July 2025, with names where they were reported.
DevelopmentGreens Farms
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.
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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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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