Proposal for a five-acre new urban village

The proposal for a five-acre new urban village in Southport, Connecticut, designed during a charrette in October 2000, has been turned down once, but the developer and designers will soon submit a revised plan. “It’s been a raucous public process,” says chief designer Robert Orr, “and the NIMBYism in the area has been both educated and well-moneyed.” In the new plan, the number of units is reduced from 40 to 27, but the neighborhood layout is intact. In response to complaints from neighbors, developer Southport Village Partners LLC has agreed to block a street that connects to surrounding neighborhoods.