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CT Gen Stat § 7-600 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones|Section 7-600 - Neighborhood revitalization zones: Establishment.

 (a) Any municipality may by resolution of its legislative body establish neighborhood revitalization zones, in one or more neighborhoods, for the development by neighborhood groups of a collaborative process for federal, state and local governments to revitalize neighborhoods where there is a significant number of deteriorated property and property that has been foreclosed, is abandoned, blighted or substandard or poses a hazard to public safety. The resolution shall (1) provide that the chief executive official facilitate the planning process for neighborhood revitalization zones by assigning municipal staff to make available information to neighborhood groups and to modify municipal procedures to assist neighborhood revitalization zones and (2) establish a process for determination of the boundaries of neighborhood revitalization zones.(b) Public buildings in the municipality shall be available for neighborhood groups to meet for neighborhood revitalization purposes as determined by the chief executive official.(c) As used in this section “deteriorated property” means property in serious noncompliance with state and local health and safety codes and regulations.(P.A. 95-340, S. 1; P.A. 14-122, S. 11.)History: P.A. 14-122 made a technical change in Subsec. (a).
CT Gen Stat § 7-603 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones|Section 7-603 - Legislative finding; exercise of power of eminent domain in neighborhood revitalization areas.

 It is found and declared that there has existed and will continue to exist in municipalities of the state substandard, insanitary and blighted neighborhoods in which there are significant properties that have been foreclosed, and are abandoned, which constitute a serious menace to the environment, public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the state; that the existence of such conditions in neighborhoods contributes substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease and crime, necessitating excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for the preservation of the public health and safety, for crime prevention, correction, prosecution, punishment and the treatment of juvenile delinquency and for the maintenance of adequate police, fire and accident protection and other public services and facilities, and the existence of such conditions constitutes an economic and social liability, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of municipalities and retards the provision of housing accommodations; that this menace is beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory process in the exercise of the police power and cannot be dealt with effectively by the ordinary operations of private enterprise and government without the powers herein provided; that the acquisition of the property because of the substandard, insanitary and blighted conditions thereon, the removal of structures and improvement of sites, the disposition of the property for revitalization incidental to accomplish the purposes of sections 7-600 to 7-607, inclusive, the exercise of powers by municipalities acting to create neighborhood revitalization zones as provided in sections 7-600 to 7-602, inclusive, and any assistance which may be given by any public body in connection therewith, are public uses and purposes for which public money may be expended and the power of eminent domain exercised; and that the necessity in the public interest for the provisions of this section and section 48-6 is declared to be a matter of legislative determination.(P.A. 95-340, S. 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-604 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones|Section 7-604 - Reuse and resale of property acquired by eminent domain.

 In the reuse and resale of residential property acquired by a municipality pursuant to subsection (c) of section 48-6, the municipality shall give preference to persons who declare an intent to reside in such property. The municipality may establish financial penalties for failure to reside in such residential property when a declaration has been made. In establishing such penalties the municipality shall take into consideration any mitigating factors.(P.A. 95-340, S. 6.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-607 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 118 - Neighborhood Revitalization Zones|Section 7-607 - Duties of Office of Policy and Management re neighborhood revitalization zones.

 The Office of Policy and Management, within available funds, shall be the lead agency for coordination of state services to neighborhood revitalization zones. On or before January 1, 1996, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management may develop guidelines for state departments, agencies and institutions to provide technical assistance to neighborhood revitalization zones. Such guidelines may provide for multiagency collaboration as well as a process to make funds, technical support and training available to neighborhoods and may recommend models for community outreach, job training and education, conflict resolution, environmental and health performance standards, new technologies and public safety strategies.(P.A. 95-340, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 7-620 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones|Section 7-620 - Enterprise zone facility bonds authorized.

 Any municipality in the state which meets the requirements for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds complying with the provisions of Sections 1391 to 1397C of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, through its designation as an urban empowerment zone by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the Code, may issue such bonds, provided such bonds comply with the requirements imposed by the Code, U.S. Treasury Regulations and other federal law related to the issuance of tax-exempt bond financing to provide funding for an enterprise zone business with qualified zone property as defined in such law.(P.A. 00-122, S. 1, 7.)History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
CT Gen Stat § 7-620a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones|Section 7-620a - Enterprise zone facility bonds to be special obligation of municipality.

 For the purpose of carrying out a financing authorized under sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, a municipality may issue bonds which are payable solely from and secured by a pledge of and lien upon any or all of the income, proceeds, revenues and property provided as security for the repayment of loans by borrowers financing enterprise zone facilities or by lenders relending bond proceeds in a “loans to lenders” program or any combination thereof as provided in the Internal Revenue Code. Bonds issued pursuant to sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, shall be special obligations of the municipality and shall not be payable from or charged upon any funds other than the revenues pledged to the payment thereof, nor shall the municipality issuing the same be subject to any liability thereon except to the extent of such pledged revenues. No holder or holders of any bonds shall have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the municipality to pay any bonds or the interest thereon, or to enforce payment thereon against any property of the municipality and the bonds shall not constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the municipality. The substance of such limitation shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond. Bonds issued pursuant to sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, shall not be subject to any statutory limitation on the indebtedness of the municipality and such bonds when issued shall not be included in computing the aggregate indebtedness of the municipality in respect to and to the extent of any such limitation.(P.A. 00-122, S. 2, 7.)History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
CT Gen Stat § 7-620c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones|Section 7-620c - Public purpose.

 It is hereby determined that the powers conferred in sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, are in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state and for the improvement of their health, safety, welfare, comfort and security and that the purposes of sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, are public purposes and that a municipality will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive.(P.A. 00-122, S. 4, 7.)History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
CT Gen Stat § 7-620d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones|Section 7-620d - Interest income from bonds.

 A municipality may issue bonds the interest on which may be includable under the Internal Revenue Code, as from time to time amended, in the gross income of the holders of such bonds to the same extent and in the same manner that interest on bills, bonds, notes or other obligations of the United States is includable in the gross income of the holders thereof under said Code, for the purpose of financing certain costs of issuance or other costs related to providing tax-exempt bond financing for funding an enterprise zone business with qualified zone property as set forth in section 7-620, based upon a finding by the board, officers or agency delegated the authority to issue and sell the bonds that the issuance of such bonds on a taxable basis is in the best interest of the municipality and in furtherance of the purposes of sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive.(P.A. 00-122, S. 5, 7.)History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
CT Gen Stat § 7-620e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 7 - Municipalities|Chapter 119 - Federally Designated Empowerment Zones|Section 7-620e - Bonds made securities.

 The bonds of a municipality issued under sections 7-620 to 7-620e, inclusive, are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or in other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to them. The bonds are also hereby made securities which may be deposited with and may be received by all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is now or may hereafter be authorized. Whether or not the bonds are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under the terms of the Uniform Commercial Code, the bonds are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code, subject only to the provisions of the bonds for registration.(P.A. 00-122, S. 6, 7.)History: P.A. 00-122 effective May 26, 2000.
CT Gen Stat § 8-1a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-1a - “Municipality” to include district.

 “Municipality” as used in this chapter shall include a district establishing a zoning commission under section 7-326. Wherever the words “town” and “selectmen” appear in this chapter, they shall be deemed to include “district” and “officers of such district”, respectively.(1959, P.A. 577, S. 1.)Cited. 212 C. 375; 216 C. 112.
CT Gen Stat § 8-1aa (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-1aa - Ridgeline protection: Definitions.

 As used in section 8-2:(1) “Traprock ridge” means Beacon Hill, Saltonstall Mountain, Totoket Mountain, Pistapaug Mountain, Fowler Mountain, Beseck Mountain, Higby Mountain, Chauncey Peak, Lamentation Mountain, Cathole Mountain, South Mountain, East Peak, West Peak, Short Mountain, Ragged Mountain, Bradley Mountain, Pinnacle Rock, Rattlesnake Mountain, Talcott Mountain, Hatchett Hill, Peak Mountain, West Suffield Mountain, Cedar Mountain, East Rock, Mount Sanford, Prospect Ridge, Peck Mountain, West Rock, Sleeping Giant, Pond Ledge Hill, Onion Mountain, The Sugarloaf, The Hedgehog, West Mountains, The Knolls, Barndoor Hills, Stony Hill, Manitook Mountain, Rattlesnake Hill, Durkee Hill, East Hill, Rag Land, Bear Hill, Orenaug Hills;(2) “Amphibolite ridge” means Huckleberry Hill, East Hill, Ratlum Hill, Mount Hoar, Sweetheart Mountain;(3) “Ridgeline” means the line on a traprock or amphibolite ridge created by all points at the top of a fifty per cent slope, which is maintained for a distance of fifty horizontal feet perpendicular to the slope and which consists of surficial basalt geology, identified on the map prepared by Stone et al., United States Geological Survey, entitled “Surficial Materials Map of Connecticut”;(4) “Ridgeline setback area” means the area bounded by (A) a line that parallels the ridgeline at a distance of one hundred fifty feet on the more wooded side of the ridge, and (B) the contour line where a ridge of less than fifty per cent is maintained for fifty feet or more on the rockier side of the slope, mapped pursuant to section 8-2;(5) “Development” means the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or expansion of a building; and(6) “Building” means any structure other than (A) a facility as defined in section 16-50i or (B) structures of a relatively slender nature compared to the buildings to which they are associated, including but not limited to chimneys, flagpoles, antennas, utility poles and steeples.(P.A. 95-239, S. 1; P.A. 98-105, S. 2; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 83, 121.)History: P.A. 98-105 added new Subdiv. (2) defining “amphibolite ridge”, renumbering existing Subdivs. accordingly, and made technical corrections; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 made technical corrections, effective June 24, 1998.
CT Gen Stat § 8-1b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-1b - Alternate members of zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission.

 Any town, city or borough, in addition to such powers as it has under the provisions of the general statutes or any special act, shall have the power to provide by ordinance for the appointment or election of alternate members to its zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission. Such alternate members shall, when seated as herein provided, have all the powers and duties set forth in the general statutes or any special act relating to such municipality for such commission and its members. Such alternate members shall be electors and shall not be members of the zoning board of appeals or planning commission. Such ordinance shall provide for the manner of designating alternates to act.(1963, P.A. 249; February, 1965, P.A. 280; 1971, P.A. 763, S. 1; P.A. 84-154, S. 1, 3; P.A. 85-284, S. 1, 5.)History: 1965 act provided option of electing alternate members; 1971 act deleted provision concerning alternate members of planning commissions, forbade members of planning commission to serve as alternate members of zoning commission and deleted provisions concerning selection of alternate by member he is to substitute for, giving chairman sole power to make selection; P.A. 84-154 provided for mandatory appointment or election of alternates, effective January 1, 1986; P.A. 85-284 repealed provisions of P.A. 84-154 and provided that local ordinances shall provide for the manner of designating alternates to act.See Sec. 8-19a re alternate members of planning commission.Cited. 168 C. 20.
CT Gen Stat § 8-1c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-1c - Fees for municipal land use applications.

 Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish a schedule of reasonable fees for the processing of applications by a municipal zoning commission, planning commission, combined planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals or inland wetlands commission. Such schedule shall supersede any specific fees set forth in the general statutes, or any special act or established by a planning commission under section 8-26.(P.A. 82-282; P.A. 93-124, S. 2; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 9, 130.)History: P.A. 93-124 added reference to planning commissions for consistency with 1993 changes to the general statutes; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 made technical change, effective July 1, 1994.Town has broad authority under section to define subdivision application processing fees by ordinance subject only to the standard of reasonableness. 232 C. 44.
CT Gen Stat § 8-1d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-1d - Hours for holding land use public hearings.

 Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish an hour at or after which public hearings shall be held by its planning commission, zoning commission, combined planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals and inland wetlands agency.(P.A. 89-175, S. 2, 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-1z (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-1z - Exclusion of conservation easement from open space percentage allocation required for land use application.

 For the purpose of final approval of a municipal land use application, including, but not limited to, the open space percentage allocation required for cluster developments, as defined in section 8-18, where such municipality has a population of not less than eighty-two thousand and not more than ninety thousand residents and a total area of not less than thirty-five square miles and not more than thirty-seven square miles, any conservation easement purchased all, or in part, with state funds shall be excluded from the open space percentage allocation required for such an application by such municipality's zoning or planning commission.(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 472.)History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 effective June 30, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 8-2a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-2a - Copies of zoning and subdivision regulations to be available.

 The secretary or clerk of each regulatory board of a political subdivision of the state, adopting subdivision or zoning regulations pursuant to the general statutes or a special act, shall make printed copies of such regulations available to the public at a reasonable price upon request.(1961, P.A. 410.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-2b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-2b - Use of maps of Soil Conservation Service as standard.

 Any planning commission, zoning commission or planning and zoning commission of any municipality may use soil survey maps of the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture as a standard in determining land use, planning, zoning or development regulations.(1971, P.A. 132.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-2d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-2d - Planned unit developments under former chapter 124a continue to be valid.

 Any land use regulations concerning planned unit developments or planned residential developments adopted by a municipal zoning commission, planning and zoning commission or other applicable zoning authority pursuant to sections 8-13b to 8-13k, inclusive, of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 1985, shall continue to be valid and any planned unit development or planned residential development proposed in accordance with such regulations which has received approval, whether tentative, preliminary or final, from such commission or authority prior to July 1, 1985, shall continue to be governed by the provisions of such regulations.(P.A. 85-409, S. 6, 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-2e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-2e - Municipal agreements regarding development rights.

 Any two or more municipalities which have adopted the provisions of this chapter or chapter 125a or which are exercising zoning power pursuant to any special act may, with the approval of the legislative body of each municipality, execute an agreement providing for a system of development rights and the transfer of development rights across the boundaries of the municipalities which are parties to the agreement. Such system shall be implemented in a manner approved by the legislative body of each municipality and by the commission or other body which adopts zoning regulations of each municipality.(P.A. 87-490, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-2f (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-2f - Joint applications necessary for transfer of development rights.

 Any zoning regulations adopted pursuant to section 8-2 concerning development rights shall authorize the transfer of the development rights to land only upon joint application of the transferor and transferee.(P.A. 87-490, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 8-2h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development|Chapter 124 - Zoning|Section 8-2h - Zoning applications filed prior to change in zoning regulations not required to comply with change. Applications for building permit or certificate of occupancy filed prior to adoption of zoning regulations not required to comply with regulations.

 (a) An application filed with a zoning commission, planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals or agency exercising zoning authority of a town, city or borough which is in conformance with the applicable zoning regulations as of the time of filing shall not be required to comply with, nor shall it be disapproved for the reason that it does not comply with, any change in the zoning regulations or the boundaries of zoning districts of such town, city or borough taking effect after the filing of such application.(b) An application for a building permit or certificate of occupancy filed with the building official of a city, town or borough prior to the adoption of zoning regulations by such city, town or borough in accordance with this chapter shall not be required to comply with, nor shall it be disapproved for the reason that it does not comply with, such zoning regulations.(P.A. 89-311, S. 2.)Cited. 220 C. 527; 225 C. 1.Cited. 25 CA 199; 26 CA 212.Subsec. (a):Cited. 28 CA 314; Id., 379; 40 CA 501; Id., 840. States that if zoning regulations are changed after an application is filed, that application need not comply in order to be approved. 63 CA 176.