PolicyVote Tracker
How Planning and Zoning Voted on Westport’s Biggest Questions
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
Westport’s Representative Town Meeting, its selectmen and the boards that decide land use and budgets.
Town HallSaugatuck
RTM Committees Advise Westport to Stay Out of the State’s New Development Agency
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.
Town HallFirst Selectman
Kevin Christie’s Real Estate Docket, Ten Months In
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.
Town HallZoning
Westport Hires a Planner to Rewrite Its Long-Range Plan
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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Policy
Planning and Zoning Rejects Offsite Affordable Units, 4-3
A text amendment would have let developers build required affordable units somewhere other than the project site. The chair voted for it and lost.
2 min read
Town Finance
The Mill Rate Fell Almost a Third. The Typical Tax Bill Still Rose.
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.
4 min read
Policy
What Connecticut’s New Housing Law Changes on Westport’s Commercial Lots
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.
5 min read
Town Hall
Selectmen Tell a Center Street Owner to Take His Wall Off Town Land
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.
2 min readSeller’s DeskNational
Should I Sell My House Off-Market?
Seller’s DeskNational
Why Isn’t My House Selling?
Seller’s DeskNational
How Do I Sell a House I Inherited?
Seller’s DeskNational
How Much Does It Cost to Sell a House?
Seller’s DeskNational