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

Sec. 8-126. Redevelopment agency. (a) The legislative body of any municipality may designate as a redevelopment agency the housing authority of the municipality or the Connecticut Housing Authority, or may create a new redevelopment agency to consist of electors resident therein.…

Sec. 8-126a. Agency employees not to promote political parties or members. No person shall cause any employee of a redevelopment agency to serve in any capacity for the purpose of promoting a political party or any member thereof. (February, 1965, P.A. 541, S. 4.)

Sec. 8-127. Preparation and approval of redevelopment plan. Notice of approval. Review. (a) The redevelopment agency may prepare, or cause to be prepared, a redevelopment plan and any redeveloper may submit a redevelopment plan to the redevelopment agency, and such redevelopment …

Sec. 8-127a. Limits on redevelopment agency's use of eminent domain under a redevelopment plan. (a)(1) No real property may be acquired by a redevelopment agency by eminent domain pursuant to section 8-128 under a redevelopment plan under this chapter for the primary purpose of i…

Sec. 8-128. Acquisition or rental of real property by redevelopment agency. Limitations. (a) Within a reasonable time after its approval of the redevelopment plan as provided in section 8-127, the redevelopment agency may proceed with the acquisition or rental of real property by…

Sec. 8-129. Agency to determine compensation and file with Superior Court and town clerks; notice to owners and interested parties. Possession of land. Certificate of taking. (a)(1) The redevelopment agency shall determine the compensation to be paid to the persons entitled there…

Sec. 8-129a. Apportionment and abatement of taxes on acquisition of property. In any case where a redevelopment agency acquires real property, municipal taxes on such property may be apportioned in accordance with prevailing local practice in the transfer of property as of the da…

Sec. 8-130. Deposit filed with Superior Court clerk. Withdrawal of agency from proceeding. Whenever any redevelopment agency files a statement of compensation as provided for in section 8-129, it shall deposit with the clerk of the Superior Court a sum of money equal to the amoun…

Sec. 8-131. Acceptances to be filed. Approval by judge or judge trial referee. After the statement of compensation provided for in section 8-129 has been filed with the clerk of the Superior Court, the property owner affected and all other persons having a record interest therein…

Sec. 8-132. Judicial review of statement of compensation. (a) Any person claiming to be aggrieved by the statement of compensation filed by the redevelopment agency may, at any time within six months after the statement of compensation has been filed, apply to the superior court …

Sec. 8-132a. Determination of equities of parties in deposit or compensation. (a) Any person making application for payment of moneys deposited in court as provided for by section 8-130 or claiming an interest in the compensation being determined in accordance with section 8-132 …

Sec. 8-133. Costs taxable against agency. If, as the result of any review under the provisions of section 8-132, the applicant obtains an award from the court greater than the amount determined as compensation by the redevelopment agency, costs of court, including such appraisal …

Sec. 8-133a. Relocation or removal of public service facilities from streets closed as part of project. As used in this section, “public service facility” includes any sewer, pipe, main, conduit, cable, wire, pole, tower, building or utility appliance owned or operated by an elec…

Sec. 8-133b. Payments in lieu of taxes. The redevelopment agency of a municipality shall make payments in lieu of taxes to such municipality on all property acquired by such agency in accordance with any redevelopment or urban renewal plan, to the extent that such payments qualif…

Sec. 8-134. Bonds: Authorization; terms, security, payment. Issuance by Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated or its subsidiary for specified project. For the purpose of carrying out or administering a redevelopment plan or other functions authorized under this chapter, a municip…

Sec. 8-134a. Allocation of taxes on real or personal property in a redevelopment project. Any redevelopment plan authorized under this chapter or any proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds under this chapter may contain a provision that taxes, if any, identified in such pl…

Sec. 8-135. Acceptance of funds. Financing. For the purpose of carrying out or administering a redevelopment plan or other functions authorized under this chapter, a municipality, acting by and through its redevelopment agency, may accept grants, advances, loans or other financia…

Sec. 8-136. Modification of redevelopment plan. A redevelopment plan may be modified at any time by the redevelopment agency, provided, if modified after the lease or sale of real property in the redevelopment project area, the modification must be consented to by the redeveloper…

Sec. 8-137. Transfer, sale or lease of real property in a redevelopment area. The redevelopment agency, for the purpose of this chapter, may sell, lease or otherwise transfer for such sums as are agreed upon the whole or any part of the real property within a redevelopment area t…

Sec. 8-137a. Other authority re transfer unaffected. Nothing in section 8-137 shall be deemed to diminish or restrict in any way authority concerning the sale, lease or transfer of any easements or other interests in, above or below any street, highway or other public right-of-wa…

Sec. 8-138. Bonds and title to land to be in name of municipality. Any redevelopment agency shall exercise its powers in the name of the municipality, except that all bonds issued under section 8-134 shall be issued solely in the name of the municipality and that title to land ta…

Sec. 8-139. Joint action by two or more municipalities. By concurrent action the legislative bodies of two or more municipalities: (a) May create a regional or metropolitan planning agency and may authorize such agency or the planning agency of any of such municipalities to make …

Sec. 8-140. Policy concerning slum areas. In addition to the findings and declarations made in section 8-124, which findings and declarations are incorporated herein and made a part of this section, it is further found and declared that (a) certain insanitary, deteriorated, deter…

Sec. 8-141. Urban renewal projects authorized. In addition to its authority under other provisions of this chapter, a redevelopment agency is authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects. As used in this part, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activ…

Sec. 8-142. Urban renewal plan. Any urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to section 8-141 shall be undertaken in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the area of the project. As used in this part, an urban renewal plan means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for a…

Sec. 8-143. Powers of redevelopment agency. A redevelopment agency shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects, including the authority to acquire and dispose of property, to issue bonds and other obl…

Sec. 8-144. Powers of municipality. Any municipality or other municipal corporation is hereby authorized, without limiting any provision in section 8-143, to do any and all things necessary to aid and cooperate in the planning and undertaking of an urban renewal project in the ar…

Sec. 8-145. Legislative body to prepare program. The legislative body of the municipality, or such public officer or public body as it may designate, is hereby authorized to prepare a workable program, which may include an official plan of action, as it exists from time to time f…

Secs. 8-146 to 8-150. Finding and declaration of necessity. Contract for state assistance. Form of aid. Bond issue. Maximum amount of loan notes. Requirements of notes and bonds. Regulations. Sections 8-146 to 8-150, inclusive, are repealed. (November, 1955, S. N34–37; 1957, P.A.…

Sec. 8-151. Declaration of policy. It is found and declared that there exist in the municipalities of the state substandard, insanitary, deteriorated, deteriorating or blighted areas, that the existence thereof is impairing and arresting the sound growth and development of such m…

Secs. 8-152 to 8-154. Grants-in-aid for redevelopment or urban renewal. Bond issue. Commissioner of Community Affairs to administer program. Sections 8-152 to 8-154, inclusive, are repealed. (March, 1958, P.A. 24, S. 2–4, 6–8; P.A. 77-313, S. 8.)

Sec. 8-154a. Contracts for state financial assistance; eligibility. Net cost of project. Disposition of land by municipalities. (1) The state, acting by the Commissioner of Housing, may enter into a contract with a municipality, acting by its redevelopment agency, for state finan…

Sec. 8-154b. Bond issues. To provide funds for state grants provided pursuant to section 8-154a, the Treasurer is directed, subject to the provisions of section 3-20, to issue bonds of the state in an amount not exceeding eighty-seven million six hundred ninety-two thousand two h…

Sec. 8-154c. Regulations. The Commissioner of Housing is authorized to make and enforce reasonable regulations to effectuate the purposes of this part and to determine the allocation of state financial assistance herein provided for among the municipalities of the state on the ba…

Sec. 8-154d. Certified list of contractors for project prerequisite to grant payment. Section 8-154d is repealed. (1963, P.A. 646, S. 3; P.A. 76-435, S. 33, 82; P.A. 77-313, S. 8.)

Sec. 8-154e. Certification by agencies of employees and persons performing work under contract. All local redevelopment agencies or commissions administering urban renewal or redevelopment projects receiving grants for urban renewal or redevelopment from the state shall certify t…

Sec. 8-154f. State grants-in-aid not subject to repayment. Contracts for financial assistance in effect prior to October 1, 1977, valid and binding. (a) All state financial assistance authorized by sections 8-154a to 8-154c, inclusive, shall, on July 1, 1967, become state grants-…

Secs. 8-155 to 8-159. Commercial or industrial development. Sections 8-155 to 8-159, inclusive, are repealed; provided, that in any case where any municipality, on or before July 6, 1967, had entered into a contract with the Connecticut Development Commission for financial assist…

Sec. 8-159a. State grants for urban problems. Section 8-159a is repealed, effective July 1, 2024. (1969, P.A. 792, S. 5–8; June, 1969, S.A. 2, S. 8; P.A. 77-614, S. 19, 284, 323, 610; P.A. 78-185, S. 1, 3; 78-303, S. 81, 136; P.A. 79-424, S. 1, 2; 79-598, S. 3, 4, 10; P.A. 81-2, …

Sec. 8-160. Capital improvement programs. Definitions. As used in sections 8-160 to 8-162, inclusive, “capital improvement program” means a priority schedule of any and all necessary municipal capital improvements projected for a period of not less than six years and so prepared …

Sec. 8-161. Commissioner to assist. State payments toward preparation of program. The Commissioner of Housing is authorized to make available technical assistance to any municipality for the purpose of preparing a capital improvement program for such municipality. The commissione…

Sec. 8-162. Procedure for obtaining technical assistance. Any municipality may receive technical assistance from the Commissioner of Housing for the preparation of a capital improvement program. The legislative body of the municipality by resolution shall designate an appropriate…

Sec. 8-163. Definitions. As used in this part: (a) “Redevelopment area” means those areas of this state designated as redevelopment areas by the Secretary of Commerce acting pursuant to Public Law 136 of the 89th Congress of the United States; (b) “Municipality” means any town, c…

Sec. 8-164. Authority to participate in federal act. Any board, commission, agency or department of this state, any municipality or political subdivision of this state, individually or with any other municipality or political subdivision, any regional council of governments, or a…

Sec. 8-165. Overall economic development program. In furtherance of the requirement of the federal act for an overall economic development program, the municipal economic development commission, if a redevelopment area consists of a single town or city within this state, shall be…

Sec. 8-166. Application for federal aid. (a) An application under the provisions of either the Public Works and Economic Development Act or the Small Business Investment Act may be made on behalf of the state by a department, board, commission or agency, after prior written appro…

Sec. 8-167. Department of Economic and Community Development to act for state. Reimbursement of small business development centers. (a) The Department of Economic and Community Development is authorized on behalf of the state to make any determination or certification required by…

Sec. 8-168. State loans for industrial or business projects. Section 8-168 is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 619, S. 4; 1967, P.A. 223, S. 4; 522, S. 8; 1969, P.A. 742, S. 1; 1972, P.A. 225, S. 1; P.A. 73-190, S. 1; 73-599, S. 36; P.A. 75-175, S. 2, 3; 75-606, S. 1, 4; P.A. 77-3…

Sec. 8-168a. Funds transferred to the Connecticut Growth Fund. Effective July 1, 1988, funds from the repayment of loans made pursuant to section 8-168, revision of 1958, revised to 1987 and in effect on June 30, 1988, shall be transferred to the Connecticut Growth Fund establish…

Sec. 8-169. Bond issue. Section 8-169 is repealed. (February, 1965, P.A. 619, S. 5; 1969, P.A. 742, S. 2; 1972, P.A. 225, S. 2; P.A. 73-190, S. 2; P.A. 75-606, S. 2, 4; P.A. 77-370, S. 5, 13; P.A. 88-265, S. 35, 36.) PART VI* COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT *Cited. 183 C. 523.