Fate of Danbury Homeless Shelter is Back in Court

DANBURY, CT — The Zoning Board of Appeals has unanimously voted down a proposal which would waive modern zoning regulations for the Dorothy Day Hospitality House, the News Times has reported. The decision on whether the downtown Danbury homeless shelter can continue to operate is now in the hands of a Hartford judge.

The debate over whether the 120-year-old building might be given special exemptions to skirt the rules and allow the shelter, in operation for the past 35 years, to stay open, has been the subject of numerous hearings over the summer.

The city moved to shut the Spring Street shelter down in 2016, and an appeal is pending in the land-use litigation docket in Hartford. That will be where the matter is ultimately decided, but there is currently no timeline on when the decision will be made.

For more, see the News Times.