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Affordable Housing: Court Denies 8-30g Appeal in Proposed ‘Red Cross Building’ Project
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A state Superior Court judge last week ruled in the town’s favor in one of three closely followed affordable housing appeals. According to a 49-page decision issued by Judge Ted O’Hanlan, the Planning & Zoning Commission did not run afoul of state law or New Canaan’s own regulations when it denied a proposed 20-unit redevelopment of the so-called “Red Cross building” at 51 Main St. two years ago. The application had been filed on behalf of property owner Arnold Karp under a state law known by its statute number, 8-30g (six of the 20 units in the proposed development would have been set aside to rent at affordable rates). P&Z “met its burden under 8-30g to show that the reason cited by the commission for its denial, the protection of the public interest in the historic value of the property and the Red Cross building in the Church Hill Historic District itself, was supported by sufficient evidence in the record,” O’Hanlan wrote in the decision.