Hugh Bailey

Attention Ned Lamont. All the cool governors are doing it

He also said he was not ready to commit to adding a reworked housing bill to a special session that will likely take place later this year — even as he hinted that a deal may soon be forthcoming. “There are some other things that I thought would have made the bill better,” Lamont said. “They’re not big things. I think we got them resolved, by the way.”

This is some weird Trump-ian language from Lamont here. Reversing himself from one sentence to the next, totally vague, not clear he knows what he's talking about, the "by the way" thing.

Not great!

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Also, by the by, in case anyone was under the impression that the governor's veto message, that he was determined to get this right in a special session, was sincere: “We’ll either do it in a special session in the next six weeks (or) we’ll do it in the next session in February."

No rush, Ned!

Gov. Lamont says CT is building lots of housing. The data says otherwise A CT Insider review found the 2024 total marked a 13-year low, dating back to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s tenure.

In case you missed it, since it was in some obscure publication called CT Insider: "data from Lamont’s office shows the number of state-financed units completed in Connecticut declined in 2024 and has steadily declined while he’s been in office." www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...

Lamont disagreed, saying more housing has been built in recent years than in the decades prior.

Listen, CT Insider, I know Lamont said this, but you could take the time to point out that **it isn't true.**

And we know this because of reporting **in the publication that you work for.**
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Cassetti, Tyszka Spar Over Apartments At Ansonia Copper & Brass - Valley Independent Sentinel 'High density' housing enters the race as an issue.

A real clash of the intellectual titans going on in Ansonia this year

Cassetti, Tyszka Spar Over Apartments At Ansonia Copper & Brass valley.newhavenindependent.org/2025/10/08/c...

Characterizing distribution centers as "massive," "horrible" and "destructive" is certainly a choice.

Quick question, though: When you order stuff online, where do you suppose it comes from?

Opinion: Three developers join forces to harm a CT town We are not alone in objecting to these developments. Prior to our non-profit being formed, other citizen groups were created, with one suing successfully to temporarily stop the first distribution …

Welcome to Middlebury, where the town is up in arms trying to save a historic building that dates to, wait for it, 2001. Historic!

Opinion: Three developers join forces to harm a CT town www.courant.com/2025/10/08/o...

CT's Ned Lamont a 'little bit' concerned about Mamdani winning NYC mayoral election, report says Lamont said he wants to make sure the next mayor of New York City understands how important the city is to the financial stability of the region.

And since ct post dot com is on a roll this morning: How many ways can our governor fail to meet the moment?

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Trump calls for investigation into Blumenthal after senator grills Bondi at Senate hearing The president criticized the Democratic lawmaker Tuesday night in a post on Truth Social.

There was a thought once that, even though Trump is president, we didn't need to report every insane thing he says on social media as if it's news. That doesn't seem to apply to this decade-and-a-half old story.

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'Oh my God. That's not what I expected': Bridgeport power plant wreckage stuns onlookers The familiar industrial site was turned into a massive pile of waterfront wreckage when the new owners imploded it.

What did people think was going to happen? It gets imploded and then just vaporizes?

'Oh my God. That's not what I expected': Bridgeport power plant wreckage stuns onlookers www.ctpost.com/news/article...

You know, these are two men who tend to offer an optimistic view of how things are going, but that is something that they hope to get done,

Wow, everyone's optimistic, great to hear, I know I feel better

PODCAST: When will Lamont announce he's running for governor of CT again? ctmirror.org/2025/10/06/p...

I've got to say, watching a Democratic governor run out the clock on what is called the most significant housing reform his state has seen in maybe forever is giving me really bad early-summer-2025 feelings

It's clear Lamont wants a 3rd term, less so what he would do Gov. Ned Lamont has intended to contrast his steady pragmatism with the drama of Trump. To that end, the federal shutdown has been a gift.

Finally got around to reading this, and yeah, four more years of fiscal guardrails in an age of never-ending constitutional crisis is hard to square.

It's clear Lamont wants a 3rd term, less so what he would do ctmirror.org/2025/10/05/n...

Pre-Covid his approval rating was Malloy-esque. His one policy goal is keeping the guardrails, which weren’t even his idea, and we get all that tax revenue from Malloy policies.

Four more years!

Not to mention his halfway “let’s regionalize schools” policy that lasted about 10 minutes.

The story then details a line of people complaining about traffic, which is a legitimate issue, but also clearly predates this project, which is of course unbuilt. Maybe take those complaints somewhere else?

Rosen raised a few concerns about the grading and driveway during the winter. Mazzucco responded, “It is a steep driveway, and we are making some modifications to the entrance, as well as the parking areas. We’re trying to flatten them out with the retaining walls and some grading so it’s not as steep. We did eliminate, I think, a couple, maybe two or three spaces, when you came up the driveway … they weren’t really practical.” Rosen then requested that there be a bit more vegetation near the street to make the development “a little more subtle.” He then asked if the percentage of nonpermeable surface is changing with this new development. Mazzucco said he would get that information for Rosen. Widmann shared that she agreed with Rosen strongly, “We live in a rural community and the images, while they may be beautiful, represent to me a city dwelling versus a country dwelling. So, it would be a major change to our community to have something that dramatic on that corner with the stone walls and towering buildings when we live in … an extremely rural community, and I just would hope that you would take a little more of that into consideration.”

What do people think this means?

You don't live in a farm town in the middle of nowhere, you're in a very high opportunity suburb.

"... an extremely rural community"? That's why people are beating down the door to build housing there?

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The housing market has remained hot in recent years as many buyers have engaged in bidding wars and thus paid more than the asking price. That includes all levels of housing – from small condominiums in New Haven to single-family homes in Greater Hartford to mansions in Greenwich. While lawmakers said in June that they would be negotiating with Lamont, Candelora said he has not heard much progress on the housing legislation. “I continue to hear that the housing bill has not progressed in any direction, so I don’t anticipate that we would be taking it up,” Candelora said.

A lot going on behind closed doors but why are we taking this guy's word for it?

CT legislators want to fix housing, insurance, federal cuts. But after 3 months, they still don’t agree how www.courant.com/2025/10/01/a...

A key sticking point between the commission and Vessel concerns the integrity of water wells owned by three neighbors of the development property in question at 48 and 50 Nashville Road. Vessel says those three wells could be compromised by construction, and as a result, the developer would offer those well owners the option of being hooked up to public water. The problem, commission members say, is Bethel doesn’t know who the affected homeowners are and therefore the town cannot ask whether the homeowners agree to the developer’s offer.

I guess knocking on the door is out of the question?

Bethel signals it will deny a 75-unit housing proposal after town attorney identifies a ‘legal basis’ “The basis for denial is that there’s a lot of variables that are unknown,” said Charles Andres, an attorney representing Bethel’s Planning and Zoning Commission.

I'm no lawyer but I wouldn't count on the town winning this one.

Bethel signals it will deny a 75-unit housing proposal after town attorney identifies a ‘legal basis’ www.newstimes.com/news/article...

I get that there are a lot of pressures in running an opinion section. You get a lot of nonsense submissions. But you don't actually have to print everything you get.

H.B. 5002 could be better named the “Democrats Hate Small Town Life in Connecticut Bill.” Among other things, it’s an attempt to mandate far left DEI housing policies into every city and town across the state. Many Democrats appear to believe that all local zoning ordinances are racist and discriminatory. Their solution for increasing the amount of low-income housing in Connecticut is to force the cities and towns to comply with state-issued mandates.

Well, they're onto us. So much for that

Democrats criticize Lamont's HB5002 veto (but not this Republican) ctmirror.org/2025/09/29/d...

Preliminary plans to make Darien's Great Island accessible run into cost concerns The Board of Selectmen expect the actual construction work to cost between $12 and $14 million in years to come.

Yes, Darien will spend $85 million to buy an island, but spending a fraction of that to ensure people can actually get there? Let's get serious.

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Developer in two-decade legal war with East Lyme plans another battle The attorney for developer Glenn Russo, who want to build homes in the Oswegatchie Hills, plans to appeal the town's recent sewer moratorium.

This is housing Whac-A-Mole. If it's not zoning, it's parking, or sewers, or runoff, or a million other things we haven't thought of yet.

Unless there's something proactive towns have to do to clear the way for housing to be built, we'll be fighting this forever.

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Let’s not get hasty. I’m thinking 2050

We’re already ​“doing 90 percent of it right now,” said Lamont.

Are you, though?

After YIMBYtown Snub, Lamont Returns To New Haven While he wasn't invited to speak at the premier conference for pro-housing advocates at the Omni Hotel, a week later, Gov. Ned Lamont rounded out public…

We’re expected to believe a person who talks like this can be convinced to sign a meaningful housing bill

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Developer wants to replace two homes with 18 apartments on Bethel’s Greenwood Avenue “The small-footprint two story buildings are consistent with the neighborhood,” the developers' application reads.

Looking forward to the arguments against a plan in a transit district, in a downtown, in an area designed exactly for this kind of thing, that won't likely have any schoolchildren, and that won't ruin anyone's view.

Probably an endangered bug in the way

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The fact that you're not aware of the compromises that have already been offered and discussed does not mean they don't exist.

Done with this now, thanks