In the Wake of Hurricane Sandy, Should Connecticut Lawmakers
Address Land-Use Along the Shore?  By Gregory B. Hladky  1:45 PM
EST, November 6, 2012   Here's an ugly thought to bring up while
people along Connecticut's coast are still struggling to rebuild
their shattered homes and lives:  Maybe Sandy wasn't bad enough.
Maybe what we really need to knock some sense into us about how
we handle our overdeveloped and under-protected shoreline in
this era of global warming is an even bigger, more monstrous
beast of a storm.  Last year, Hurricane Irene smacked into
Connecticut and caused an estimated $235 million worth of
damage, most of it along the shoreline. The state's response was
a flurry of studies and some weak-ass legislation designed to
encourage cities and towns to change their zoning and
development policies.  "It did not require anything," state Rep.
Dick Roy of Milford, co-chair of the legislature's Environment
Committee, says sourly.  Sandy's damaging winds and flooding are
going to cost far more. B