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- Title: Coyle v. Danbury Housing Authority
- Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Release Date : January 25, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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The General Assembly in 1949 enacted Special Act No. 30, which provided that the ""city limits of the city of Danbury shall include any land in the town of Danbury purchased by the Housing Authority of the city of Danbury for the purpose of erecting housing units."" 25 Spec. Laws 839 In 1962, the city housing authority acquired an option to purchase a tract of land, located in the town outside the territorial limits of the city, on which the authority proposed to erect housing units. The plaintiffs are a group of individual property owners and an association of which those individual owners and other property owners in the area are members. All of the plaintiffs' properties are within 1600 feet of the optioned tract. The defendants are the city housing authority, the city of Danbury, the zoning commission of the town of Danbury and the town of Danbury. The plaintiffs seek to prevent the housing authority from acquiring and using the site for housing purposes. Their complaint is in two counts. In the first count, they ask for a declaratory judgment as to the constitutionality of Special Act No. 30 and the legality of the acquisition of the site in question by the city housing authority. Under the allegations of the second count, the plaintiffs want the housing authority enjoined from purchasing the site and from using it for the contemplated housing. The court dismissed the first count for lack of jurisdiction and rendered judgment for the defendants on the second count. The plaintiffs have appealed. It is not essential to our determination of this appeal to recite the allegations of the complaint. The plaintiffs base their claims for relief on the admitted fact that the individual plaintiffs as well as the other members of the plaintiff association are