Represented the Home Builders Association of Connecticut in the landmark exclusionary zoning case Builders' Service Corp. v. East Hampton Planning and Zoning Commission, 208 Conn. 267 (1988). Also handled more than 75 matters under Connecticut's affordable housing law, including the first case under the statute, TCR New Canaan v. Trumbull Planning and Zoning Commission, 6 Conn. L. Rptr. 4, 91 (1992); and two landmark cases under the statute, AvalonBay Communities v. Town of Orange, 256 Conn. 557 (2001) and River Bend Associates v. Zoning Commission, 271 Conn. 1 (2004).
Since 1990, Shipman & Goodwin has represented applicants/developers in workforce and affordable housing applications in Avon, Beacon Falls, Berlin, Bethel, Canton, Cheshire, Danbury, Darien, East Lyme, Lisbon, Milford, Monroe, New Canaan, New Milford, Newtown, North Canaan, Norwalk, Orange, Oxford, Ridgefield, Simsbury, South Windsor, Stamford, Stratford, Thomaston, Tolland, Trumbull, Wallingford, Westport, and Wilton.
The practice's most recent successful court decisions are AvalonBay v. Stratford Zoning Commission (Appellate Court, July 2011), which approved a 130 unit development, and AvalonBay v. Wilton Planning and Zoning Commission, 103 Conn. App. (2007), which ordered final site plan approval of a 100-unit affordable development that commenced in June 2011.