Town Meeting Minute Issue 15 graphic about land-use outcomes, withdrawals, and new applications across CT and RI. Town Meeting Minute • Issue #15

After the Verdicts: One Decision Sets the Next in Motion

Decision season delivered. Now comes the fallout. In the month since Issue #14, an affordable-housing subdivision was withdrawn on the day of its own meeting, a long-fought plan battle escalated with officials warning of impacts on hundreds of properties, a new wave of applications hit the Groton pipeline, and the region's most litigated commercial project finally got its hearing date — this Tuesday. The verdicts of August are becoming the applications, withdrawals, and showdowns of September.

New London County, CT Middlesex County, CT Washington County, RI Newport County, RI

Every land-use decision is also a starting gun. An adopted…

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Quaker Hill · Waterford, Connecticut

A 1930 Cape Cod on Quaker Lane

Nearly a century of good bones, quiet streets, and Southeastern Connecticut’s shoreline just down the road — 16 Quaker Lane is offered for sale.

Brokers’ Open House

Saturday, September 5  •  11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

16 Quaker Lane, Quaker Hill (Waterford), CT 06375

Front exterior of 16 Quaker Lane, a Cape Cod-style home in Quaker Hill, Connecticut

16 Quaker Lane, Quaker Hill

Some houses announce themselves; a Cape Cod settles in. Built in 1930, 16 Quaker Lane belongs to the generation of New England homes that were made to be lived in first and admired second — a steep roof to shed the winter, a compact footprint that heats sensibly, and rooms arranged around the practical rhythms of daily life. Nearly a hundred years on, that logic still…

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Harvest moon over a coastal harbor with a lighthouse, tall ship, sailboats, barn and Ferris wheel — Seaport Community Calendar Issue 15 Seaport Community Calendar · Issue 15

Into the Harvest: Fairs, Fleets & the First Weekends of Fall

September is the shoreline's second season. The beaches are quieter, the harbors are busier, and the calendar turns from summer concerts to country fairs, boat shows, harvest festivals and a few genuinely new traditions — including a drone show over the Thames River. This issue runs from Labor Day weekend through the first weekend of October, from New London and Mystic to the Connecticut River Valley, across South County, and onto Aquidneck Island.

Four Counties · One Coastal Community

Where the Calendar Takes Us This Issue

The Community Calendar covers New London County and Middlesex County in Connecticut, along with…

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Town Meeting Minute special edition hero titled The Multifamily Brief CT and RI, with a navy nautical chart background and an illustrated apartment skyline Town Meeting Minute · Special Edition · August 2026

The Multifamily Brief: Submarines, Statutes & a Thousand New Doors

Everything moving the multifamily market in New London, Middlesex, Washington, and Newport Counties — the demand engine, the capital, the pipeline, and the two statehouses rewriting the rules.

There are markets where multifamily is a spreadsheet exercise. Southeastern Connecticut and southern Rhode Island are not one of them. Here, the story writes itself in steel: one employer planning 8,000 hires in a single year, a $76.6 billion Navy award, and a housing stock that was never built to absorb it. Layer on the most consequential rewrite of land-use law either state has seen in a generation, and you get the rare moment…

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Working Waterfront Report — Marina Operations & Management

The Hidden Revenue Streams Most Marina Operators Are Missing

Transient dock at a marina at sunset

Most marina owners can recite their slip rates from memory. Fewer can tell you, without pulling out a calculator, what percentage of their gross revenue comes from anything other than slips and fuel. That gap is where a lot of value quietly leaks out of an otherwise well-run marina.

Slip fees and fuel margins are the visible economics of a marina, and the numbers everyone benchmarks against. But in property after property, the ancillary lines are where the real upside sits. They’re also the lines most operators under-manage simply because they’re not the first thing anyone looks at.

Here’s where that upside tends to…

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Town Meeting Minute Issue 14 graphic about municipal zoning votes, plan adoptions, and land-use decisions across CT and RI. Town Meeting Minute • Issue #14

Decision Season: The Verdicts Are Starting to Land

For months we have tracked towns writing frameworks, drafting plans, and scheduling hearings. Now the region is entering decision season. Stonington's ten-year plan goes back to public hearing August 18. Waterford is weighing whether to adopt its own rezoning of the former airport property. Groton just denied a follow-up amendment. Tiverton set a September special meeting on its most contested commercial project. What towns decide over the next thirty days will echo through land value for the next decade.

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Issue #13 was about municipal control — towns taking…

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Late summer community events across coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island Seaport Community Calendar · Issue 14

The Last Stretch of Summer & the First Signs of Fall

Summer is not finished yet. August and early September bring some of the shoreline's best reasons to get outside — county fairs, waterfront music, art, theatre, river cruises, road races, cultural festivals, polo, food, boats, and community traditions. This issue takes us from Mystic and Groton to Essex and East Haddam, across South County, and onto Aquidneck Island as one season slowly begins to give way to the next.

Four Counties · One Coastal Community

Summer Isn't Over Yet

The Community Calendar covers New London County and Middlesex County in Connecticut, along with Washington County and Newport County in Rhode Island — a…

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Shoreline Living: What It's Really Like to Own in a Waterfront Community | Seaport Real Estate Services

Shoreline Living: Hawk’s Nest Beach, Old Lyme, CT — Part 1 of a 3-Part Series

Shoreline Living: What It’s Really Like to Own in a Waterfront Community

By Jodi | Seaport Real Estate Services | Old Lyme, CT

The views and experiences shared in this post are personal and reflect life in the Hawk’s Nest Beach community of Old Lyme, CT. Real estate values, association rules, and community details vary — always consult with a local expert before making purchasing decisions.

The Rhythm You Don’t Understand Until You’re In It

There’s a rhythm to living in a shoreline community that you don’t fully understand until you’re in it. I…

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Town Meeting Minute Issue 13 graphic about municipal housing, zoning, and planning decisions across CT and RI. Town Meeting Minute • Issue #13

Towns Are Taking Control of the Housing Conversation

Across New London County, Middlesex County, Washington County, and Newport County, the next real estate story is not just private development pressure. It is how municipalities are rewriting, refining, adopting, resisting, and redirecting the rules that determine what can actually be built.

New London County, CT Middlesex County, CT Washington County, RI Newport County, RI

Real estate value is shaped long before a listing hits the market. It changes when a town initiates its own zoning map amendment, when a follow-up text amendment appears, when a POCD moves to public hearing, when subdivision regulations are rewritten, when housing-growth…

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2026 Property Tax Report · Connecticut

The list price tells you what a home costs to buy. It says nothing about what it costs to own — and in 2026, that second number is where Connecticut buyers get surprised. The same home, one town line apart, can carry a tax bill that differs by well over a thousand dollars a month.

10.85 Lowest rate
(Washington) 68.95 Highest rate
(Hartford) 28.39 Statewide
median 169 Towns in
this report

The number most buyers never check

Everyone shopping for a home watches the price. Far fewer ask the question that actually sets the monthly payment: what’s the property tax? In Connecticut, the answer comes from the town’s mill rate — the dollars…

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