https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/168_more_apartments
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300 state street is shown in the first photo
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/state_st_road_changes
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Starr St. Lots-To-Housing Plan OK’d | New Haven Independent
The Elicker administration won eight key votes of support for an infill-development project that will see a total of 19 new affordable housing units — spread across a mix of duplexes, two-family homes, and single-family homes — constructed atop vacant lots in Newhallville.
The approvals came in the face of stepped-up opposition by some Starr Street neighbors, who argued that so much new housing on the block will take away valuable community greenspace and will have negative impacts on parking, density, and public safety.
The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) heard that debate and issued those approvals Tuesday night during its latest monthly meeting, held online via Zoom and in person on the second floor of City Hall.
By the end of the nearly four-hour meeting, zoning commissioners had voted unanimously in support of eight different applications related to new-construction projects on Starr Street.
The approvals — for a suite of variances related to lot areas, building coverage, rear yard setbacks, and building wall heights, among other other provisions — apply to the addresses of 205, 209, 213, 219, 261, and 265 Starr St.
Those lots are all owned by the city.
When combined with a suite of similar zoning relief approved for different nearby Newhallville lots during the BZA’s August meeting, the Elicker administration can now move forward with a long-in-the-works plan to construct five duplexes, four two-family homes, and one single-family home on Starr Street and Winchester Avenue.
The exact addresses where these homes will be built, thanks to the August and September BZA approvals, are 136, 139, 205, 209, 213, 219, 222, 261, 265, and 274 Starr St. and 632 Winchester Ave
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It’s a lot better than the current situation at any rate
The office building they just built is hardly occupied, and it does look like these are all going to end up being owned by Yale and integrated with the medical campus anyway even if that’s not how they were built. Idk why there’s such a rush to build when the demand doesn’t seem that strong. Also they don’t mention the temple street reconnection which should be included in the project
In the rendering the Knights of Columbus tower with a more glassy facade actually looks good.
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