North Haven First Selectman to Meet with State Housing Officials Over Affordable Housing Applications

North Haven First Selectman Michael Freda plans to meet with state housing representatives on Wednesday to discuss methods the town’s Planning and Zoning Commission can use in dealing with affordable housing applications, according to the New Haven Register.

The Planning and Zoning Commission recently denied its fourth affordable housing application and over the last few years three applications were later overturned on appeal because affordable housing requirements were not being met in town, according to the Register, which also reported that in two instances the legal fees involved in the process cost taxpayers $62,370.

All affordable housing applicants fell under an 8-30g state stature, in which 10 percent of housing must be listed as affordable, according to the Register. North Haven has 4.27 percent.

“As a result of us losing to (state stature) 8-30g, we are at the crossroads of determining whether the money we’re spending to appeal represents the best interests of taxpayers,” Freda told Keldy Ortiz of the Register. “What I am personally working on with the state is to seek a moratorium on us being vulnerable to 8-30g.”

Read the full story at the New Haven Register here.

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