Community Corner
Sea Level Rise Bill Clears Key Committee
Legislators approved the measure after removing language that suggested using eminent domain to reduce private beach ownership.
The General Assembly’s Environment Committee has approved a bill that will permit the state to plan for future effects of sea level rise, which might raise that severely punished and other shoreline communities last August.
An article in the New Haven Register said the bill passed the committee after members removed language that opponents had focused on, because it seemed to encourage the state to use its powers of eminent domain to reduce private ownership of beach property.
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