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Shore Protection Plan Calls For 'Strategic Retreat' of Private Property

State Sen. Len Fasano criticized the proposal as an attempt to keep people from living near the beach.

Legislators representing are in the middle of a controversy over possible changes in the state’s coastline management rules to plan for rising sea level and .

An article in the New Haven Register said state Rep. , D-East Haven, will chair the , which will hold its first meeting Monday afternoon in Hartford.

State Sen. , R-North Haven, who represents East Haven, has objected to a provision in a proposed bill that calls for a "strategic retreat" of private property ownership along the Connecticut shoreline in the coming decades.

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Fasano helped to organize a in East Haven .

Fasano called it an "overreaching" attempt by the state to keep people from living along the beach.

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