Sign The Petition | Don't Block What Works: Wall Street Housing & Walkability

District Parking

We have 1,700 parking spaces. Half sit empty. Stop requiring every building to provide its own — especially historic buildings with no extra land. Let the City manage parking as a neighborhood resource.

More Choices, More Neighbors

Right now, a 300 sq ft studio & a 2,500 sq ft 4-bedroom both count as 1 “unit” — and units allowed are tied to lot size. That pushes developers toward fewer, larger, more expensive apartments or no project at all. Wall Street’s historic walkups need smaller, more affordable units — not luxury 4-bedrooms. Keep the rules on building size, shape, & character. Remove the arbitrary unit cap.

Small-Project Relief

Wall Street already delivers affordable housing naturally. Wall Street Place is 100% affordable. Other projects run 10–30%. Small buildings with no parking and no elevators rent well below the city’s “Affordable” threshold without any program. Don’t burden them with compliance designed for 200-unit buildings. Allow projects of 19 units or fewer to pay a fee toward the city’s affordable housing fund instead.

Wall Street Zoning Pilot Area

The Wall Street Zoning Pilot covers the same streets where the City of Norwalk is investing $30 million in infrastructure improvements — wider sidewalks, bike lanes, festival streets, and gateway features. This isn't a coincidence. The city has already identified this area as the place to invest. The zoning should match. The purple streets on this map are the TMP Corridor Improvement Project. That's our pilot boundary. Small. Targeted. Exactly where the city is planting seeds for growth.

Wall Street Corridor Improvement Project — City of Norwalk / TMP. The same streets receiving $30M in city and federal infrastructure investment define the proposed zoning pilot boundary.