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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 ...
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. Stonington is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population of the town was 18,335 at the 2020 census.The town is home to many ...
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 ...
I am a resident of the area and quite frankly, Mystic is an almost entirely fabricated community whose historicity is dwarfed by the surrounding areas such as Norwich, New London, and Stonington Borough. Most of the buildings are in fact new, with "historical" architecture and naming conventions being enforced by zoning regulations.
The COGs are meant to aid coordination among neighboring cities and towns, and between the towns and the state government, on issues including land use, zoning, and transportation. They serve some functions analogous to county governments in other states, but have no independent taxing authority (Connecticut disbanded county governments in 1960).
Towns traditionally have a town meeting form of government; under the Home Rule Act, however, towns are free to choose their own government structure. Nineteen of the towns in Connecticut are consolidated city-towns, and one ( Naugatuck ) is a consolidated borough-town.
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.