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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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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.

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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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Connecticut · Flood Zone Renovations

The 50% Rule Isn’t One Rule. That’s Why So Many Renovations Go Sideways.

Three separate rules share the same number. Almost nobody separates them — and in Connecticut, the one that decides your project is written by your town, not the state.

Seaport Advisory  ·  Southeastern Connecticut & Southern Rhode Island Three rules share the 50% number: federal substantial improvement, RI building code, local zoning nonconformity

A few days ago a group of us got into it over the 50% rule — the one that says you can only renovate a house in a flood zone so far before the whole building has to come up to current code. Everyone in the room knew the rule. Everyone in the room had a different version of it.

That’s not a knowledge problem. It’s that three separate rules share the same number, and almost nobody…

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Town Meeting Minute Issue 12 planning documents with approved, rejected, and public hearing notices. Town Meeting Minute • Issue #12

The Rules Are Starting to Move

Over the past two weeks, Southeastern Connecticut towns have moved from planning language into real regulatory consequences: Groton approved a major open-space development framework, Waterford rejected a large housing rezoning request, Stonington advanced its POCD review, East Lyme continued housing-growth implementation, Norwich processed incremental infill, and Ledyard studied whether its land-use governance structure needs to change.

Real estate value is often shaped before a property ever hits the market. It changes when a text amendment passes, when a rezoning fails, when a subdivision hearing is scheduled, when a POCD moves to public review, or when a town…

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Town Meeting Minute Issue 11 editorial image showing municipal planning documents, housing growth plans, zoning amendments, subdivision regulations, and utility rate studies. Town Meeting Minute • Issue #11

Housing Pressure Moves From Policy to Parcels

Across Southeastern Connecticut, local boards are moving from discussion to action — studying rezoning requests, updating subdivision rules, reviewing utility costs, and implementing state housing mandates that could reshape land values and development feasibility.

Real estate value does not usually change all at once. It changes first in meeting packets, public hearing notices, water-rate studies, subdivision regulations, zoning referrals, and long-range planning documents. By the time a shovel hits the ground, the value shift may have already started.

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Waterford’s 140 Waterford Parkway South rezoning request places a large industrial…

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