Title 8 — Title 8: Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development

Sec. 8-18. Definitions. As used in this chapter: “Commission” means a planning commission; “municipality” includes a city, town or borough or a district establishing a planning commission under section 7-326; “subdivision” means the division of a tract or parcel of land into thre…

Sec. 8-19. Creation of planning commissions. Exemption re certain affordable housing. (a) Any municipality may create by ordinance a planning commission, which shall consist of five members, who shall be electors of such municipality and whose terms of office and method of electi…

Sec. 8-19a. Alternate members of planning commission. Any municipality, 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 p…

Sec. 8-20. Designation of planning commission as planning and zoning commission. Section 8-20 is repealed. (1951, S. 169b; 1953, S. 387d; 1959, P.A. 679, S. 4.)

Sec. 8-21. Disqualification of members in matters before planning or zoning commissions or zoning board of appeals. Replacement by alternates. No member of any planning commission and no member of any municipal agency exercising the powers of any planning commission, whether exis…

Sec. 8-22. Contracts and expenditures. Action by majority vote. The commission may engage such employees as are necessary for its work and may contract with professional consultants. The commission may accept gifts but all of its expenditures, exclusive of such gifts, shall be wi…

Sec. 8-23. Preparation, amendment or adoption of plan of conservation and development. (a)(1) At least once every ten years, the commission shall prepare or amend and shall adopt a plan of conservation and development for the municipality. Following adoption, the commission shall…

Sec. 8-24. Municipal improvements. No municipal agency or legislative body shall (1) locate, accept, abandon, widen, narrow or extend any street, bridge, parkway or other public way, (2) locate, relocate, substantially improve, acquire land for, abandon, sell or lease any airport…

Sec. 8-25. Subdivision of land. (a) No subdivision of land shall be made until a plan for such subdivision has been approved by the commission. Any person, firm or corporation making any subdivision of land without the approval of the commission shall be fined not more than five …

Sec. 8-25a. Proposals for developments using water. Prerequisite. No proposal for a development using water supplied by a company incorporated on or after October 1, 1984, shall be approved by a planning commission or combined planning and zoning commission unless such company ha…

Sec. 8-25b. Fund. Payments in lieu of open spaces. Any municipality which provides in regulations, adopted pursuant to section 8-25, for the payment of a fee or the fair market value of land transferred in lieu of any requirement to provide open space, shall deposit any such paym…

Sec. 8-26. Approval of subdivision and resubdivision plans. Waiver of certain regulation requirements. Fees. Hearing. Notice. Applications involving an inland wetland or watercourse. (a) All plans for subdivisions and resubdivisions, including subdivisions and resubdivisions in e…

Sec. 8-26a. Effect of change in subdivision or zoning regulations or boundaries of districts after approval of plan. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act or local ordinance, when a change in the subdivision regulations is adopted by the planning commis…

Sec. 8-26b. Notice to regional council of governments of proposed subdivision; report of agency findings. Whenever a subdivision of land is planned, the area of which will abut or include land in two or more municipalities, the planning commission, where one exists, of each such …

Sec. 8-26c. Subdivision to be completed within five years of plan approval. Exceptions. (a) Any person, firm or corporation making any subdivision of land, except as provided in section 8-26g, shall complete all work in connection with such subdivision within five years after the…

Sec. 8-26d. Hearings and decisions. In all matters wherein a formal application, request or appeal is submitted to a planning commission under this chapter all public hearings shall be held and all decisions made in accordance with the provisions of section 8-7d. (1971, P.A. 862,…

Sec. 8-26e. Hearings by planning commission on applications for special permit or exception. Notice of decision. Expiration and extensions. (a) The planning commission of any municipality shall hold a public hearing on an application or request for a special permit or special exc…

Sec. 8-26f. Notice to adjoining municipalities. Section 8-26f is repealed, effective October 1, 2003. (P.A. 87-307, S. 3; P.A. 89-175, S. 5, 7; P.A. 03-177, S. 14.)

Sec. 8-26g. Subdivision projects consisting of four hundred or more dwelling units to be completed within ten years of approval of plan. Exceptions. (a) Any person, firm or corporation making a subdivision of land for a project consisting of four hundred or more dwelling units sh…

Sec. 8-26h. Validation re erected structures on lot or lots shown on filed map or plan of subdivision. No use or occupancy of or the presence of any building or other structure erected on a lot or lots either shown on a filed or recorded map or plan of subdivision or located in a…

Sec. 8-27. Building on unaccepted streets. Any municipality having a planning commission may, by ordinance, prohibit or regulate the issuance of building permits for the erection of buildings or structures on lots abutting unaccepted highways or streets. No such ordinance shall p…

Sec. 8-28. Notice of decision of planning commission. Appeal. Notice of all official actions or decisions of a planning commission, not limited to those relating to the approval or denial of subdivision plans, shall be published in a newspaper having a substantial circulation in …

Sec. 8-28a. Change in zoning regulations or districts not to affect approved subdivision plan. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act or municipal ordinance, when an application, petition or request for approval of a subdivision plan for residential property…

Sec. 8-28b. Change in subdivision regulations or zoning districts not to affect approved subdivision plan. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special act or municipal ordinance, when an application, petition or request for approval of a subdivision plan for resident…

Sec. 8-29. Filing of maps and plans. Notice and hearing. Assessments. Such commission is authorized, unless otherwise provided by ordinance adopted by the municipality, to prepare and file surveys, maps or plans of proposed highways, streets, sidewalks or the relocation, grade, w…

Sec. 8-30. Appeals. Action by court. Section 8-30 is repealed. (1951, 1953, S. 391d; P.A. 76-436, S. 295, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-29, S. 60, 82; P.A. 89-356, S. 18.)

Sec. 8-30a. Appeals provisions to apply in all municipalities. The provisions of section 8-8 shall apply to appeals from planning commissions or other final planning authorities of any municipality whether or not such municipality has adopted the provisions of this chapter and wh…

Secs. 8-30b to 8-30f. Reserved for future use.