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Closely followed Woodbridge zoning case enters new phase After six months of public hearings on a widely followed Woodbridge rezoning proposal, commissioners are to start deliberating. Is multi-family housing in the suburbs a civil rights issue? Or a matter of water and sewer access? Or is the idea of an environment-housing “balance” an excuse for avoiding necessary systemic change? Woodbridge Town Planning & Zoning Commissioners will confront those questions next month as a lengthy dispute...

Steam billows from a tall stack near the power block facility at the MIRA trash-to-energy facility in Hartford’s South Meadows. (Cloe Poisson, CTMirror.org) The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority plant is a hulking presence on the Connecticut River along Hartford’s southeast flank – a sprawling complex of buildings and emissions stacks that was constructed for another time and use. It shows. In the winding corridors and rooms of this fortress-like structure — which originally ...

Steph Speirs and Shalanda Baker share insights about expanding fossil-free energy to more communities.

Open-housing debate in Woodbridge: Define racism Can a town’s laws be racist even if they do not explicitly state: “No Blacks Allowed?” That question emerged at the latest public hearing over whether to change zoning, and boost affordable housing, in New Haven’s leafy neighbor to the west. The question came towards the end of a three-hour hearing hosted last week by the Woodbridge Town Planning & Zoning Commission. The two-pronged rezoning proposal submitted by civil rights attorneys an...