Zoning laws have been under scrutiny for years in Connecticut towns.
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)After the police killing of George Floyd, a Connecticut law professor invited architects, planners and land use attorneys to a discussion of how local zoning worsens the state's racial inequities.
It has compiled a package of zoning changes for lawmakers to consider in a legislative session marked by debate over how to bring more equity to a state with some of the highest levels of income inequality.
And zoning is one of the reasons why," said Sara Bronin, the law professor at the University of Connecticut and Yale University.
People know and people are doing their own homework and people are actually finding ways to rectify it, even if it’s on a small scale.”Zoning laws have been under scrutiny for years in Connecticut towns.