Relief for Those Who Need It Least: How Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8–30g’s Moratorium Provision Rewards Towns for Making Inadequate Strides in Addressing Housing Segregation in Connecticut and Offers Lessons for the Nation

Daniel Katz, a commissioner on the Town of Westport, Connecticut’s Planning and Zoning Commission, made this statement in 1985 in response to aletter written by William Collins, mayor of neighboring Norwalk, in whichCollins accused Katz and Westport of creating a “zoning wall of exclusion” to keep out less affluent residents.2 Despite generating 5,130 new jobsbetween 1970 and 1980, Westport only added 616 new housing units overthis same time period.

Daniel Chapple