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Jan. 21—The towns of Stonington and North Stonington and the Borough of Stonington will soon be holding public hearings on a proposal to implement a six-month moratorium on zoning applications ...
Stonington is a borough and the town center of Stonington, Connecticut, United States, referred to by locals as "The Borough". The population was 976 at the 2020 United States Census, up from 929 in 2010. [1] The densely built Borough of Stonington occupies a point of land that projects into Little Narragansett Bay. It has two main streets that ...
Early zoning regulations were in some cases motivated by racism and classism, particularly with regard to those mandating single-family housing. [7] [8] Zoning ordinances did not allow African-Americans moving into or using residences that were occupied by majority whites due to the fact that their presence would decrease the value of home. [9]
Jun. 21—STONINGTON — As the town's moratorium on accepting applications for cannabis businesses nears its Sept. 21 deadline, the Planning and Zoning Commission has completed work on a set of ...
Stonington is a town located on Long Island Sound in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The municipal limits of the town include the borough of Stonington , the villages of Pawcatuck , Lords Point , and Wequetequock , and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic .
A Standard State Zoning Enabling Act" (SZEA) was a model law for U.S. states to enable zoning regulations in their jurisdictions. It was drafted by a committee of the Department of Commerce and first issued in 1922. This act was one of the foundational developments in land use planning in the United States.
North Stonington is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States which was split off from Stonington in 1724. The town is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region . The population was 5,149 at the 2020 census.
Thus, Connecticut earned its nickname of The Constitution State. Connecticut historian John Fiske was the first to claim that the Fundamental Orders were the first written Constitution, a claim disputed by some modern historians. [4] The orders were transcribed into the official colony records by the colony's secretary Thomas Welles.