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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property › Section 8-169rr. - Economic development master plan. Development and submission to authority; review and approval.

(a) For the purposes of this section, “economic development master plan” means (1) a comprehensive economic development plan that is designed to increase the tax base of a municipality, or the combined tax bases of two or more municipalities, as applicable, to a level that will allow the municipality or municipalities to provide an adequate level of municipal services, or (2) a comprehensive economic development plan developed pursuant to section 7-578.
(b) Prior to execution of a memorandum of agreement between the authority and the chief executive officer of a member municipality, or the chief executive officers of the municipalities constituting a joint member entity, as applicable, establishing a development district, the member municipality or joint member entity shall develop an economic development master plan and submit such plan for the authority's review and approval. Each member municipality or joint member entity shall provide for community and stakeholder input and a public comment process in the development of its economic development master plan, and such plan shall be approved by the legislative body of such member municipality or the legislative bodies of the municipalities constituting such joint member entity, as applicable.
(c) In determining whether to approve an economic development master plan developed under subsection (b) of this section, the authority shall consider whether such plan includes a clear and feasible path toward achieving as many of the purposes of the authority, as set forth in subsection (a) of section 8-169jj, as practical and appropriate in the context of the unique characteristics of a member municipality or the municipalities constituting a joint member entity, as applicable. The authority shall offer support to such municipality or municipalities in creating the economic development master plan, if requested by such municipality or municipalities.
(d) Any authority development project that receives support from the authority shall be consistent with (1) the economic development master plan of the member municipality, or the municipalities constituting the joint member entity, as applicable, in which such project is located, (2) the plan of conservation and development, adopted under section 8-23, of each such municipality, and (3) the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy prepared under section 32-742.
(P.A. 19-117, S. 222.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property › Section 8-169ss. - Encouragement to hire local employees. Office of Workforce Strategy assistance with training and recruitment.

The authority, member municipalities and joint member entities shall encourage businesses, as appropriate, to hire local employees. Any business that receives financial assistance from the authority shall enter into an agreement with the Office of Workforce Strategy for assistance with the training and recruitment of workers.
(P.A. 19-117, S. 223; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2, S. 247.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-2 replaced reference to Workforce Training Authority with Office of Workforce Strategy, effective July 1, 2021.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property › Section 8-169o. - Declaration of policy.

It is hereby found and declared that there exists within the municipalities of this state a large number of real properties containing vacant and abandoned buildings, that many of these vacant and abandoned buildings are located in areas which are blighted or dilapidated and that the existence of such vacant and abandoned buildings contributes to the further decline of such blighted or dilapidated areas. It is further found that the abandonment and forfeiture of real properties with structures thereon are adversely affecting the economic well being of the municipalities and are inimical to the health, safety and welfare of the residents of this state. It is further found that many of the vacant and abandoned buildings can be rehabilitated, reconstructed or reused so as to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing and ancillary commercial facilities and that such rehabilitation, reconstruction and reuse would eliminate, remedy and prevent the adverse conditions described above. It is further found that in blighted or dilapidated residential areas in municipalities of this state there are vacant municipally owned real properties where safe and sanitary housing could be constructed. It is further found that private enterprise has not been able to undertake and carry out the rehabilitation, reconstruction or reuse of abandoned and vacant buildings and the construction of housing on vacant municipally owned real properties within the blighted or dilapidated areas of the municipalities of this state and that the provisions of this part are necessary and in the public interest.
(P.A. 75-452, S. 1, 8; P.A. 86-405, S. 3, 12.)
History: P.A. 86-405 added findings re housing construction on vacant municipally owned real properties.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property › Section 8-169q. - Designation of urban homesteading agency.

Any municipality may, by ordinance, establish an urban homesteading program and may authorize any existing board, commission, department or agency, including a housing authority, redevelopment agency or any nonprofit community housing development corporation complying with the provisions of section 8-217, to be the urban homesteading agency or may, by ordinance, establish a new board, commission, department or agency to act as the urban homesteading agency. Such new urban homesteading agency shall be composed of not less than three nor more than nine members, all of whom shall be residents of the municipality appointed by the chief elected official with the approval of the legislative body or the board of selectmen in the case of a municipality in which the legislative body is a town meeting. Those first appointed shall be designated to serve one, two and three years respectively and thereafter members shall be appointed annually to serve for three years. Each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and has qualified. Action by such an urban homesteading agency shall be taken by majority vote of members present, provided no action may be taken unless at least fifty per cent of the members are present. An urban homesteading agency created pursuant to this section shall select a secretary, who may be a member of the agency and may elect or employ such other officers, agents, technical consultants, legal counsel and employees as the agency requires. The members shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
(P.A. 75-452, S. 3, 8; P.A. 94-59, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 94-59 added provision that appointments be made by the board of selectmen in the case of a municipality in the legislative body is a town meeting.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property › Section 8-169t. - Selection of urban homesteaders.

The urban homesteading agency shall select from among applicants for urban homestead program property those applicants who in the determination of the agency can acquire the necessary financial and technical resources to rehabilitate or construct, own and manage urban homestead program property. Such property shall be offered to such qualified applicants in accordance with the following priorities: (1) Persons displaced by governmental activities declaring in writing their intent to occupy the property for a period of not less than two years; (2) low and moderate income families declaring in writing their intent to occupy the property for a period of not less than two years; (3) families or persons declaring in writing their intent to occupy the property for a period of not less than two years; (4) nonprofit community housing development corporations; (5) any other qualified applicant, provided the urban homesteading agency has certified that no qualified urban homesteaders of higher priority have applied.
(P.A. 75-452, S. 6, 8; P.A. 86-405, S. 7, 12; P.A. 87-417, S. 2, 10.)
History: P.A. 86-405 added reference to “construction” of urban homestead program property and amended Subdiv. (4) to authorize offering of property to limited equity cooperatives; P.A. 87-417 amended Subdiv. (4) by deleting provisions re limited equity cooperatives, effective July 1, 1988.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property › Section 8-169u. - Financial assistance. Abatement of real property taxes.

(a) An urban homesteading agency may provide financial assistance to urban homesteaders for the purchase and rehabilitation of, or construction on, urban homestead program property. Such financial assistance may be in the form of grants, loans or deferred loans for the community housing development corporation chartered under section 8-218f and in the form of loans for other urban homesteaders. All such loans or deferred loans, if made by the urban homesteading agency, shall be secured by a mortgage naming the municipality as the mortgagee, provided if any such loans are made from funds provided by the state or federal government or any other public or private entity, the state or federal government or the public or private agency may be the mortgagee, and provided further that a municipality may assign any such mortgage to another entity. In the case of a deferred loan, the contract shall require that payments on interest are due immediately but that payments on principal may be made at a later time.
(b) An urban homesteading agency may utilize federal, state or other public or private financial assistance, provided that any such assistance requiring local financial participation shall be first approved by the legislative body of the municipality.
(c) An urban homesteading agency may recommend to the legislative body the abatement in whole or in part of real property taxes due on urban homestead program property conveyed to an urban homesteader pursuant to sections 8-169s and 8-169t, or the deferral of such taxes for a period not to exceed ten years. Such legislative body may, by resolution, authorize such abatement. All urban homestead program property conveyed to an urban homesteader may be designated by the legislative body of a municipality as property eligible for deferral of increased assessment under the provisions of sections 12-65c to 12-65f, inclusive.
(P.A. 75-452, S. 7, 8; P.A. 76-57, S. 1, 3; P.A. 86-405, S. 8, 12; P.A. 87-417, S. 3, 10; P.A. 92-166, S. 8, 31.)
History: P.A. 76-57 substituted “resolution” for “ordinance”; P.A. 86-405 authorized urban homesteading agency to provide financial assistance for construction on urban homestead program property and allowed financial assistance to be in form of grants or loans for limited equity cooperatives and community housing development corporation chartered under Sec. 8-218e and in form of loans for other urban homesteaders; P.A. 87-417 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provisions re assistance to limited equity cooperatives, effective July 1, 1988; P.A. 92-166 amended Subsec. (a) by making deferred loans a form of financial assistance available under the section and providing that payments on interest are due immediately but that payments on principal may be made at a later time.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 130 - Redevelopment and Urban Renewal. State and Federal Aid. Community Development. Urban Homesteading. Abandoned and Blighted Property › Section 8-169v. - Acceptance of real property from United States government.

Notwithstanding any other provision of sections 8-169o to 8-169u, inclusive, an urban homesteading agency may accept, on behalf of the municipality, any real property tendered to it without payment by the United States of America, acting by and through the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant to the provisions of Section 810 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383). Upon acquisition of real property by the urban homesteading agency under this section, the urban homesteading agency shall publish at least twice a notice in a newspaper having general circulation in the municipality that such property is available. Such notice shall include the estimated purchase price, the qualifications of the applicant, procedures for bidding on the property and the closing date for such bidding. The second notice shall be published not less than two weeks before such closing date. In addition, thereto, the legislative body of a municipality may, upon recommendation of the urban homesteading agency, authorize conveyance of such real property to an urban homesteader meeting the requirements of Subsection (b)(3) of Section 810 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 in accordance with the requirements and procedures set forth in Section 810 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and any regulations promulgated thereunder by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
(P.A. 76-57, S. 2, 3.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 131 - Department of Economic and Community Development: Industrial and Research Development Projects (Conditionally Repealed) › Section 8-170 to 8-185. - Industrial and research development projects.

Sections 8-170 to 8-185, inclusive, are repealed; provided, that in any case where any municipality, on or before July 6, 1967, had prepared an industrial or research development project plan under said sections 8-170 to 8-185, inclusive, or had otherwise taken substantial action under said sections, then such municipality, the state, any state or local development company, as defined in section 8-171, and any other interested person shall continue to be subject to said sections and be eligible for state financial assistance thereunder but only insofar as said sections relate to those projects that have been planned or commenced thereunder and such municipality, the state, such state or local development company or such other interested person may make application to the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development for, and the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development may make, grants for the purposes of such industrial or research development project from the funds available for the purposes of chapter 132, but subject to the provisions of section 8-154f.
(February, 1965, P.A. 449, S. 1–17; 1967, P.A. 760, S. 14; 1971, P.A. 505, S. 1; P.A. 73-599, S. 25; P.A. 77-614, S. 284, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 81, 136; P.A. 79-598, S. 4; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6.)
History: 1967 act repealed sections; 1971 act substituted Connecticut development commission for commissioner of community affairs; P.A. 73-599 substituted department of commerce for Connecticut development commission; P.A. 77-614 substituted department of economic development for department of commerce, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of economic development for department in sections involving commissioner of community affairs, implying that provisions of 1971 and 1973 acts were never enacted; P.A. 79-598 repeated change from community affairs to economic development; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Economic Development with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-186. - Declaration of policy.

It is found and declared that the economic welfare of the state depends upon the continued growth of industry and business within the state; that the acquisition and improvement of unified land and water areas and vacated commercial plants to meet the needs of industry and business should be in accordance with local, regional and state planning objectives; that such acquisition and improvement often cannot be accomplished through the ordinary operations of private enterprise at competitive rates of progress and economies of cost; that permitting and assisting municipalities to acquire and improve unified land and water areas and to acquire and improve or demolish vacated commercial plants for industrial and business purposes and, in distressed municipalities, to lend funds to businesses and industries within a project area in accordance with such planning objectives are public uses and purposes for which public moneys may be expended; and that the necessity in the public interest for the provisions of this chapter is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 1; 1972, P.A. 87, S. 1; P.A. 74-184, S. 1, 10; P.A. 75-480, S. 1, 8; P.A. 84-243, S. 1.)
History: 1972 act included vacated commercial plants in provisions of section; P.A. 74-184 allowed demolition of vacated commercial plants as well as acquisition or improvement; P.A. 75-480 included water areas in provisions of section; P.A. 84-243 included reference to use of funds for loans in distressed municipalities.
Cited. 184 C. 51; 206 C. 579. A unified land and water area is one that exists because of the combination of separate land parcels into a unitary development scheme and is not limited to vacant land and includes developed or occupied land. 268 C. 1.
Cited. 35 CS 157.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-188. - Designation of development agency.

Any municipality which has a planning commission is authorized, by vote of its legislative body, to designate the economic development commission or the redevelopment agency of such municipality or a nonprofit development corporation as its development agency and exercise through such agency the powers granted under this chapter, except that the Quinnipiac Valley Development Corporation, organized and existing by virtue of the provisions of number 625 of the special acts of 1957, may be designated as a development agency, for the purposes of this chapter, to act as such within the geographical area specified in section 2 of said special act. Any municipality may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a separate economic development commission, redevelopment agency or nonprofit development corporation as its development agency for each development project undertaken by the municipality pursuant to this chapter.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 3; 1969, P.A. 404, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 86; P.A. 78-357, S. 10, 16; P.A. 82-55, S. 2, 3.)
History: 1969 act allowed consideration of Quinnipiac Valley Development Corporation as development agency; 1971 act allowed municipality to designate nonprofit development corporation as its development agency; P.A. 78-357 allowed distressed municipalities to designate more than one development agency; P.A. 82-55 specified that municipality's designation of separate commissions for separate projects is contingent upon approval of the commissioner.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-190. - Planning grants and special planning grants.

The commissioner is authorized to make planning grants and special planning grants to municipalities to facilitate the planning of development projects, provided (a) no such grant shall be made in an amount in excess of fifty per cent of the estimated reasonable cost of such planning as determined by said commissioner and (b) the municipal share of such planning costs may be paid in noncash contributions, the value of such contributions to be determined by the commissioner. Planning grants and special planning grants may be made to any distressed municipality, as defined in section 32-9p, in amounts up to one hundred per cent of such planning costs if the commissioner determines that there is a substantial likelihood that the planned development project will be consummated. Special planning grants may be authorized for development projects consisting, predominantly, of industrial buildings, which it is anticipated, within eighteen months, shall have more than fifty per cent of the usable floor area unused or substantially underutilized and shall result in significant unemployment. Said commissioner may consult with and advise any development agency in the preparation of a plan for a development project.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 5; 1971, P.A. 505, S. 3; P.A. 74-184, S. 4, 10; P.A. 75-480, S. 4, 8; P.A. 76-134, S. 1; P.A. 78-357, S. 11, 16; P.A. 79-582, S. 3, 4; P.A. 85-50, S. 2.)
History: 1971 act substituted Connecticut development commission for commissioner of community affairs; P.A. 74-184 substituted commissioner of commerce for Connecticut development commission; P.A. 75-480 applied existing provisions to special planning grants and added provision concerning special planning grants for projects involving underused industrial buildings; P.A. 76-134 changed maximum amount of grant from full estimated cost to 50% of estimated cost of planning and replaced provision deducting amount of planning grant from other development grant which might be made with provision that municipal share of planning costs may be noncash contributions the value of which is to be determined by the commissioner; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of economic development for commissioner of commerce, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-357 allowed grants for full planning costs to distressed municipalities; P.A. 79-582 changed unused floor space requirement from 75% to 50%; P.A. 85-50 made industrial buildings anticipated, within 18 months, instead of within one year, to have more than 50% of usable floor area either unused or substantially underutilized, instead of only unused, eligible for special planning grants.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-191a. - Effect of commissioner's failure to make environmental evaluation.

No plan prepared and approved under sections 8-189 and 8-191, which includes the findings enumerated in subdivisions (12) and (13) of section 8-189, shall be invalid and deemed ineffective solely because of the commissioner's failure to comply with any provision of sections 22a-1a to 22a-1f, inclusive. All actions taken by the commissioner between February 1, 1975, and June 14, 1977, are validated. Nothing in this section or section 8-191, 8-193 or 8-196 shall relieve the commissioner from the commissioner's obligation to comply with sections 22a-1a to 22a-1f, inclusive, subsequent to June 14, 1977.
(P.A. 77-410, S. 4, 5; P.A. 07-141, S. 21.)
History: P.A. 07-141 substituted “subdivisions (12) and (13)” for “subsection (k)” re findings and made a technical change.
Cited. 184 C. 51.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-196. - Joint projects.

Any two or more municipalities by vote of their respective legislative bodies may, through their respective development agencies, jointly initiate a development project where the project area is to be located in one or more of such towns, and after approval by the commissioner of the project plan therefor if any state aid is to be requested under section 8-190 or 8-195, enter into, and thereafter amend, an agreement for the purposes of jointly carrying out the project plan through their respective development agencies, which agreement may include provisions for furnishing municipal services to, and sharing costs of, and revenues, including property tax and rental receipts, from, the development project. A proposed form of the agreement to be entered into by such towns shall be included as part of the project plan. In furtherance of its obligations under such an agreement, each town which is a party thereto may make appropriations and levy taxes in accordance with the provisions of the general statutes and may issue bonds in accordance with section 8-192.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 11; 1971, P.A. 505, S. 7; P.A. 74-184, S. 8, 10; P.A. 75-480, S. 7, 8; P.A. 77-410, S. 3, 5.)
History: 1971 act substituted Connecticut development commission for commissioner of community affairs; P.A. 74-184 substituted commissioner of commerce for Connecticut development commission; P.A. 75-480 deleted requirement that municipalities jointly initiating project be contiguous and simply required approval by commissioner rather than “final approval”; P.A. 77-410 required approval of commissioner “if any state aid is to be requested under section 8-190 or 8-195”; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of economic development for commissioner of commerce, effective January 1, 1979.
Cited. 184 C. 51.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-197. - Furnishing of municipal services to other municipalities.

Any municipality by vote of its legislative body may for consideration furnish municipal services to, or have municipal services furnished to it by, one or more other municipalities. The consideration for such services may be based, in whole or in part, upon a formula which takes into account the taxes levied on so much of the real property situated in the municipality to which such services are to be furnished as, in the judgment of the legislative body thereof, will be appreciably benefited by such services.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 12.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-198. - Regulations.

The commissioner is authorized to make and enforce reasonable regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 13; 1971, P.A. 505, S. 8; P.A. 74-184, S. 9, 10.)
History: 1971 act substituted Connecticut development commission for commissioner of community affairs; P.A. 74-184 substituted commissioner of commerce for Connecticut development commission; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of economic development for commissioner of commerce, effective January 1, 1979.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-199. - Action to be taken in name of municipality.

Any development agency shall exercise its powers in the name of the municipality, and all bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be issued in the name of the municipality and title to land taken or acquired pursuant to a development plan shall be solely in the name of the municipality.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 15.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-200. - Modification of development plan. Abandonment of plan and conveyance of property. Limitations.

(a) A development plan may be modified at any time by the development agency, provided, if modified after the lease or sale of real property in the development project area, the modification must be consented to by the lessees or purchasers of such real property or their successor or successors in interest affected by the proposed modification. Where the proposed modification will substantially change the development plan as previously approved, the modification must be approved in the same manner as the development plan.
(b) If after three years from the date of approval of the development plan the development agency has been unable to transfer by sale or lease at fair market value or fair rental value, as the case may be, the whole or any part of the real property acquired in the project area to any person in accordance with the project plan, and no grant has been made for such project pursuant to section 8-195, the municipality may, by vote of its legislative body, abandon the project plan and such real property may be conveyed free of any restriction, obligation or procedure imposed by the plan but shall be subject to all other local and state laws, ordinances or regulations, including, but not limited to, any offer of sale required under subsection (c) of section 8-193.
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 16; P.A. 80-41; P.A. 81-415, S. 3, 4; P.A. 07-141, S. 12.)
History: P.A. 80-41 substituted “development” for “redevelopment”; P.A. 81-415 added Subsec. (b) authorizing municipality to abandon project plan and convey real property in the project area if, after three years from the date of the plan's approval the development agency is unable to sell or lease all or any part of the property; P.A. 07-141 amended Subsec. (b) to add “including, but not limited to, any offer of sale required under subsection (c) of section 8-193”, effective June 25, 2007, and applicable to property acquired on or after that date.
Subsec. (a) does not provide a basis of aggrievement to contract purchasers who have not yet completed purchase; “purchasers” means only those parties who actually have purchased specific property in the area subject to the proposed plan modification. 150 CA 279.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-200a. - Conversion of balance of prior loans to grants-in-aid.

The unpaid balance of all loans made under the provisions of chapter 131 of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to 1966, shall, on May 23, 1969, become state grants-in-aid under the provisions of this chapter and shall not be repaid to the state in whole or in part.
(1969, P.A. 259, S. 1; P.A. 03-278, S. 21.)
History: P.A. 03-278 made a technical change, effective July 9, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 132 - Municipal Development Projects › Section 8-200b. - Payment of administrative costs under prior law.

Administrative or other costs or expenses incurred by the state in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of chapter 131 of the general statutes, revision of 1958, revised to 1966, shall be paid from the proceeds of bonds issued for grants-in-aid for industrial or research development projects from funds available for the purposes of this chapter.
(1969, P.A. 259, S. 2; P.A. 03-278, S. 22.)
History: P.A. 03-278 made a technical change, effective July 9, 2003.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-201. - Declaration of policy.

It is found and declared that improvement of the conditions and quality of urban life is one of the most serious responsibilities facing this state. The persistence of slums and blight; the critical need for additional and improved housing and community facilities and services arising from rapid expansion of the state's urban population; the inadequacy of sites for industrial and commercial growth; the concentration of persons of low income in the older urban areas of the state; the persistence of poverty, unemployment, underemployment, educational deprivation, crime and delinquency, and physical and mental illness; all these have resulted in a marked deterioration of the quality of the environment and the lives of large numbers of Connecticut citizens, while the state as a whole prospers. It is further found and declared that the municipalities of this state do not have adequate resources to deal effectively with these physical, economic, and human resource problems and that financial and technical assistance by the state, in addition to that now authorized, and the granting of new powers and authority to municipalities, are essential to enable the municipalities to plan, develop and conduct physical, economic and human resource programs for effective community development. It is further found and declared that the accomplishment of these objectives requires effective concentration and coordination of federal, state, regional and local public and private efforts and resources and that such concentration and coordination of efforts can best be achieved through the creation of an Office of Policy and Management.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 590, 609, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 119, 136.)
History: P.A. 77-614 substituted office of policy and management for department of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979, and in Sec. 609 repealed section; P.A. 78-303 removed section from repeal provision in Sec. 609 of P.A. 77-614.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-202. - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(a) Repealed by P.A. 77-614, S. 609, 610;
(b) “Human resource development agency” means a human resource development agency as defined in section 17b-852;
(c) “Housing solely for low or moderate-income persons or families” means housing, the construction or rehabilitation of which is aided or assisted in any way by any federal or state statute, which housing is subject to regulation or supervision of rents, charges or sale prices and methods of operation by a governmental agency under a regulatory agreement or other instrument which restricts occupancy of such housing to persons or families whose incomes do not exceed prescribed limits;
(d) “Municipality” means town, city or borough;
(e) “Governing body” means, for towns having a town council, the council; for other towns, the selectmen; for cities, the common council or other similar body of officials; and for boroughs, the warden and burgesses.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 609, 610.)
History: P.A. 77-614 repealed Subsec. (a) which had defined “commissioner” as commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-203 to 8-205. - Department of Community Affairs; commissioner. Advisory Council on Community Affairs. Duties of council.

Sections 8-203 to 8-205, inclusive, are repealed.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 3, 5, 6; 1969, P.A. 28; P.A. 73-8, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 609, 610.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-206b. - Emergency fuel assistance program. Eligibility requirements. Participation in weatherization program.

Section 8-206b is repealed, effective October 1, 2004.
(P.A. 78-184, S. 1, 2; Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 79-5, S. 1, 5; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2, S. 10, 165; P.A. 04-76, S. 59.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-206c. - Effective date of Secs. 8-206b and 16a-45.

Sections 8-206b and 16a-45 shall take effect November 20, 1979, except that this law shall only remain in effect until June 30, 1980.
(Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 79-5, S. 5.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-206f. - Designation of HUD Section 202 or Section 236 elderly housing development as demonstration program.

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8-206e, the Commissioner of Housing, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Services and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, may designate as a demonstration program one or more established United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 202 or Section 236 elderly housing development that is licensed to provide assisted living services, for the purpose of qualifying otherwise eligible residents for payment for such services as authorized under a 1915c Medicaid waiver or the state-funded portion of the Connecticut Home Care Program for the Elderly established pursuant to section 17b-342.
(Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5, S. 88; P.A. 13-234, S. 67.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5 effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 13-234 substituted “Commissioner of Housing” for “Commissioner of Economic and Community Development” and substituted “one or more” for “an” re designation of demonstration program, effective July 1, 2013.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-207 and 8-207a. - Community development action plan. State financial assistance for implementing, reviewing and revising community development action plan.

Sections 8-207 and 8-207a are repealed.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 9; 1969, P.A. 478; 757, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 759, S. 2, 4; 1972, S.A. 53, S. 23; P.A. 73-96, S. 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 38, 39, 610; P.A. 78-303, S. 120, 136.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-208. - State grants-in-aid for housing code enforcement.

The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance to initiate, expand or improve housing code enforcement programs to promote the preservation or rehabilitation of housing, in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to two-thirds of the cost of the program, as approved by the commissioner, for two years after execution of the state assistance agreement, one-half of such cost for an additional period not to exceed three years and thereafter one-third the cost of the program. To facilitate the effective enforcement of housing codes throughout the state, the commissioner may prepare a model State Housing Code. Any municipality may adopt such code by ordinance.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 11; P.A. 73-338; P.A. 75-368, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 291, 610; P.A. 79-598, S. 11; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 73-338 placed three-year limit on additional aid for cost after initial two-year period and placed five-year limit on additional aid for programs under federal Housing Act of 1949; P.A. 75-368 added provision that code enforcement programs promote preservation and rehabilitation of housing, deleted provision placing five-year limit on aid from programs under federal Housing Act and provided for continuing aid after three-year limit expires for one-third of the program's cost; P.A. 77-614 gave contracting authority to commissioner of economic development, “commissioner” previously having referred to commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-598 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-208a. - Appeals from municipal housing code board decisions and enforcement. Cost.

Any person or persons severally or jointly aggrieved by any decision of a housing code board of appeals or any officer, department, board or bureau of any municipality, charged with the enforcement of any order, requirement or decision of said board, may, within fifteen days from the date of such decision, take an appeal to the superior court of the judicial district in which such municipality is located, which appeal shall be made returnable to said court in the same manner as that prescribed for civil actions brought to said court. Notice of such appeal shall be given by leaving a true and attested copy thereof with, or at the usual place of abode of, the chairman or clerk of said board. The appeal shall state the reasons upon which it has been predicated and shall not stay proceedings upon the decision appealed from, but the court to which such appeal is returnable may, on application, on notice to the board and on cause shown, grant a restraining order. The authority issuing a citation in such appeal shall take from the appellant, unless such appellant is an official of the municipality, a bond or recognizance to said board, with surety, to prosecute such appeal to effect and comply with the orders and decrees of the court. Said board shall be required to return either the original papers acted upon by it and constituting the record of the case appealed from, or certified copies thereof. The court, upon such appeal, shall review the proceedings of said board and shall allow any party to such appeal to introduce evidence in addition to the contents of the record of the case returned by said board if the record does not contain a complete transcript of the entire proceedings before said board, including all evidence presented to it, or if, upon the hearing upon such appeal, it appears to the court that additional testimony is necessary for the equitable disposition of the appeal. The court may take such evidence or appoint a referee or committee to take such evidence as it directs and report the same to the court, with his or its findings of facts and conclusions of law, which report shall constitute a part of the proceedings upon which the determination of the court shall be made. The court, upon such appeal and after a hearing thereon, may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify or revise the decision appealed from. Costs shall be allowed against said board if the decision appealed from is reversed, affirmed in part, modified or revised. Appeals from decisions of said board shall be privileged cases to be heard by the court, unless cause is shown to the contrary, as soon after the return day as is practicable.
(P.A. 73-532; P.A. 76-436, S. 269, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127.)
History: P.A. 76-436 substituted superior court for court of common pleas, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-280 deleted reference to counties.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development › Chapter 133 - Housing, Redevelopment and Urban Renewal and Human Resource Development Programs › Section 8-209. - State grants-in-aid for demolition of unsafe structures; for urban beautification.

(a) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance for the demolition of unsafe structures which under state or local law have been determined to be structurally unsound or unfit for human habitation and which such municipality has authority to demolish. Such contract shall provide state financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to (1) two-thirds of the net cost of the demolition as approved by the commissioner, or (2) where the demolition is financed under the federal Housing Act of 1949, as amended, one-half of the amount by which the net cost of the demolition, as approved by the commissioner, exceeds the federal grant-in-aid thereof.
(b) The state, acting by and in the discretion of the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance for programs of urban beautification; provided such program shall have been approved by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development under the federal Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, as amended. Such contract shall provide for state financial assistance in the form of a state grant-in-aid equal to one-half of the amount by which the net cost of the program as approved by the commissioner exceeds the federal grant-in-aid thereof.
(1967, P.A. 522, S. 12; P.A. 77-614, S. 292, 610; P.A. 79-598, S. 13; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 77-614 specified that commissioner of economic development has contracting authority, previously “commissioner” had meant commissioner of community affairs, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-598 substituted commissioner of housing for commissioner of economic development; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, references to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development were changed editorially by the Revisors to references to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.
See Sec. 8-226 re use of prior bond proceeds for purposes of this section.