Zoning enforces cease-and-desist against Bridgeport BOE’s Taylor

BRIDGEPORT — The city’s Zoning Department has asked a judge of the Superior Court to issue an arrest warrant for the Board of Education’s Chris Taylor for continuing to live in an illegal East Side apartment.

Zoning Enforcement Officer Neil Bonney inspected Taylor’s recycling business’ offices at 155 Davenport St. on May 30 and concluded the school board member had an apartment there that was not part of the plans the city had approved a few years earlier.

Taylor was given 30 days to cease and desist living on the site or to file an appeal. That order, according to the arrest warrant affidavit Bonney submitted Wednesday, was sent to Taylor May 8 by certified mail and received by him on May 15.

In an interview last week with Hearst Connecticut Media, Taylor, who previously said he planned to move out of the apartment were it deemed illegal, instead said he would try to seek the zoning variances necessary to maintain living space. The property is zoned for light industrial use.

“I got so much money in the place, where am I gonna go?” Taylor said at the time. “It’s a great neighborhood.”

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Bonney re-inspected the Davenport Street property on Wednesday and “found the same prior conditions exist ... the building is being used and designed or arranged as a residence/living quarters/living unit — which is not what was approved.”

Bonney then sought the warrant.

Taylor faces a misdemeanor punishable by a daily fine of as much as $250.

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