The recent comments of New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker in regards to Greenwich and our zoning regulations was off base, inflammatory, and divisive. Greenwich is a Town with a housing authority, which oversees more than 1,250 affordable housing units recognized by the state Department of Economic Community Development. The authority, recently renamed Greenwich Communities, has spent more than $27 million on affordable housing in the past five years alone. Moreover, our Planning & Zoning Commission is coming before the Board of Selectmen next week to present a public-private partnership that would establish a housing trust fund. All this was and is being done on the local level, and not compelled by those at the state Capitol 86 miles to the north.
I would like to thank Mayor Elicker for returning my call. I enjoyed our conversation and look forward to working with him in the future on issues important to both of our municipalities as well as the other 167 in Connecticut. In the meantime, I will stand by ready to correct the record when any misstatement of fact, slander, or attack on my hometown is made. We are proud of our record, and look forward to being the best we can as we go forward.
First Selectman, Fred Camillo
