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Walk-in Hours
City Plan Zoning staff are available for walk-in inquiries Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. Should you need to drop in another time please contact us to make an appointment.
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Updates on the Vision 2034 Comprehensive Plan
To learn more about Co-Creation team meetings, visit our website. To participate in the third meeting for a team in late winter/early spring, sign up here.
Vision 2034 is a blueprint of the city's vision for the future, and a policy guide for achieving planning goals. It serves as a decision-making guide for residents, community leaders, and government officials in matters relating to land use, housing, transportation, sustainability, economic development, neighborhood planning, public investments, and capital improvement programs. Stay updated here.
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Congratulations Fatima, Senior Project Manager
We want to kick off this newsletter by congratulating City Plan's Fatima Cecunjanin, who was recently promoted from Planner II to Senior Project Manager! Fatima has been with City Plan for three years, and her work on the Historic District Commission has been invaluable to the department and the city. Her work will now focus on special projects, including transportation planning and helping to coordinate multi-departmental work across the city. Congrats again, Fatima!
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Thank you, Nate Hougrand
This month, City Plan said goodbye to our Deputy Director of Zoning Nate Hougrand who had been with our team for over a decade. As our second-longest tenured staff, Nate not only had a wealth of knowledge and context in our work, but was as a leader and mentor to other staff in City Plan and across the City, particularly around New Haven’s zoning and development. He will be missed, and we wish Nate the best!
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Youth Environmental Justice Leadership Summit at Common Ground
On Jan. 11, 2025, students on the Vision 2034 Youth Leadership Team presented to peers and nonprofit, City, and EPA staff on their work with the Vision 2034 comprehensive plan as part of the Common Ground High School's "Seeds of Change, Growing Youth Leadership in Environmental Justice" summit. Thanks to Common Ground and our EPA Environmental Justice Specialist, Keyana White, for continuing to support and celebrate young leaders in environmental justice!
This amazing team of high schoolers has been involved with community engagement in twelve neighborhoods, helping to run twenty events, leading to over a thousand resident touchpoints. However, ongoing funding for this initiative is threatened by the recent cuts to the EPA. We will share more in our next update as more information becomes available.
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Local Governments as a Catalyst for Housing: Potential Lessons for New Haven? | |
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New Smoke Shop Ordinance
The City Plan Department, in coordination with members of the Board of Alders and other City departments, has developed a proposal for new zoning ordinances related to smoke shops and smoking places. These regulations include definitions for their uses (which currently do not exist in the New Haven zoning code), guidelines for permitting, and restrictions on where new businesses are allowed to be established. The proposed language has received favorable recommendations from the City Plan Commission and Legislation Committee. The proposal is expected to be voted on by the Board of Alders in February. If you want to learn more, please feel free to check out this New Haven Independent article.
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Join a City of New Haven Board or Commission!
Interested in playing a crucial role for the city of New Haven, particularly in operations that concern public safety, education, housing, the environment, and so much more? Please visit newhavenct.gov/boards or scan the QR code below and apply today for a City of New Haven Board or Commission!
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The Consolidated Plan: Assessing Affordable Housing in New Haven
The Consolidated Plan is a document designed to help communities assess their affordable housing and community development needs; identify current community and market conditions; and make data-driven, place-based investment decisions. New Haven’s 2025-2029 Five-Year Consolidated Plan will describe the City’s housing and community development needs and provide a strategy that will guide how its grant funds will be spent. This document is required by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for funding eligibility and these funds may be in jeopardy as a result of ongoing federal downsizing.
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