Title 8 — Title 8: Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
42 chapters · 774 sections in this title.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-3m Approval of warehousing or distribution facility prohibited in certain circumstances.
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Sec. 8-3m. Approval of warehousing or distribution facility prohibited in certain circumstances. Notwithstanding any municipal charter, ordinance, regulation or resolution, special act or provision of this title, no municipality with a population of more than six thousand and les…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-4 Zoning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission.
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Sec. 8-4. Zoning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission. Section 8-4 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 840; 1959, P.A. 679, S. 4.)
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-4a Zoning or planning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission.
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Sec. 8-4a. Zoning or planning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission. Any town, city or borough, unless otherwise provided by special act, may by ordinance or by vote of its legislative body designate its zoning commission or its planning commission as the…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-4b Change from combined commission to separate commissions.
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Sec. 8-4b. Change from combined commission to separate commissions. Any town, city or borough which has designated its zoning commission or its planning commission as the planning and zoning commission of such municipality under the provisions of section 8-4a may, by ordinance or…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-4c Training for members of planning, zoning or combined planning and zoning commissions and zoning boards of appeals. Training guidelines. Statement of compliance.
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Sec. 8-4c. Training for members of planning, zoning or combined planning and zoning commissions and zoning boards of appeals. Training guidelines. Statement of compliance. (a) On and after January 1, 2023, each member of a municipal planning commission, zoning commission, combine…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-5 Zoning board of appeals. Alternate members.
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Sec. 8-5. Zoning board of appeals. Alternate members. (a) In each municipality having a zoning commission there shall be a zoning board of appeals consisting of five regular members and three alternate members, unless otherwise provided by special act. Such alternate members, als…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-5a Designation of alternate members to act.
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Sec. 8-5a. Designation of alternate members to act. If a regular member of a zoning board of appeals is absent, he may designate an alternate from the panel of alternates to act in his place. If he fails to make such designation or if he is disqualified, the chairman of the board…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-5b Ordinance may provide for appointment of alternate members.
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Sec. 8-5b. Ordinance may provide for appointment of alternate members. 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 of three altern…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-6 Powers and duties of board of appeals.
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Sec. 8-6. Powers and duties of board of appeals. (a) The zoning board of appeals shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged that there is an error in any order, requirement or decision made by the official charged with the enfor…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-6a Appeal to be heard before variance when both joined.
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Sec. 8-6a. Appeal to be heard before variance when both joined. Whenever an application to a zoning board of appeals for the grant of a variance is joined with an appeal from any order, requirement or decision made by the official charged with the enforcement of this chapter, or …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-7 Appeals to board. Hearings. Effective date of exceptions or variances; filing requirements.
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Sec. 8-7. Appeals to board. Hearings. Effective date of exceptions or variances; filing requirements. The concurring vote of four members of the zoning board of appeals shall be necessary to reverse any order, requirement or decision of the official charged with the enforcement o…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-7a Evidence at hearings and meetings to deliberate formal petitions, applications, requests or appeals to be taken by stenographer or recorded.
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Sec. 8-7a. Evidence at hearings and meetings to deliberate formal petitions, applications, requests or appeals to be taken by stenographer or recorded. The zoning commission, planning commission, planning and zoning commission and zoning board of appeals shall call in a competent…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-7b Notice to contiguous municipalities of variance applications.
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Sec. 8-7b. Notice to contiguous municipalities of variance applications. Section 8-7b is repealed, effective October 1, 2003. (February, 1965, P.A. 54; P.A. 83-247; P.A. 03-177, S. 14.)
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-7c Disclosure of beneficiaries of real property held in trust.
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Sec. 8-7c. Disclosure of beneficiaries of real property held in trust. Any person who makes an application to a planning commission, zoning commission or zoning board of appeals pertaining to real property, the record title to which is held by a trustee of an undisclosed trust, s…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-7d Hearings and decisions. Time limits. Day of receipt. Notice to adjoining municipality. Public notice registry.
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Sec. 8-7d. Hearings and decisions. Time limits. Day of receipt. Notice to adjoining municipality. Public notice registry. (a) In all matters wherein a formal petition, application, request or appeal must be submitted to a zoning commission, planning and zoning commission or zonin…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-7e Notice to adjoining municipalities of applications or requests.
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Sec. 8-7e. Notice to adjoining municipalities of applications or requests. Section 8-7e is repealed, effective October 1, 2003. (P.A. 87-307, S. 2; P.A. 89-175, S. 4, 7; P.A. 03-177, S. 14.)
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-8 Appeal from board to court. Mediation. Review by Appellate Court.
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Sec. 8-8. Appeal from board to court. Mediation. Review by Appellate Court. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Aggrieved person” means a person aggrieved by a decision of a board and includes any officer, department, board or bureau of the municipality charged with enforcement of …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-8a Process for mediation.
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Sec. 8-8a. Process for mediation. (a) As used in this section, “mediation” means the process where the parties in an appeal filed under section 8-8, 22a-34 or 22a-43 meet with an impartial third party to work toward resolution of the issues in the decision that was the subject of…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-9 Appeals from zoning commissions and planning and zoning commissions. Review by Appellate Court.
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Sec. 8-9. Appeals from zoning commissions and planning and zoning commissions. Review by Appellate Court. Appeals from zoning commissions and planning and zoning commissions may be taken to the Superior Court and, upon certification for review, to the Appellate Court in the manne…