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

Sec. 8-169l. Discretionary funds. Planning advances. (a) The state, acting by the commissioner, may enter into a contract with a municipality for state financial assistance in order to assist such municipality to apply for discretionary funds provided under Title I of said Housin…

Sec. 8-169ll. Member municipalities; joint member entities. (a)(1) Any municipality, except the city of Hartford or any municipality that is considered part of the capital region, as defined in section 32-600, may, by certified resolution of the legislative body of the municipali…

Sec. 8-169m. Receipt of funds. Issuance of bonds. (a) The commissioner may receive and accept aid or contributions of funds from any source to be held, used and applied to carry out the purposes of section 8-169l and section 8-216b, subject to such terms and conditions as may hav…

Sec. 8-169mm. Reports to the Governor, Auditors of Public Accounts and General Assembly. Annual compliance and independent financial audits. Contract compliance officer; report. (a) In lieu of the report required under section 1-123, within the first ninety days of each fiscal ye…

Sec. 8-169n. Regulations. Section 8-169n is repealed. (P.A. 75-443, S. 14, 15; P.A. 88-280, S. 14.) PART VII URBAN HOMESTEADING

Sec. 8-169nn. Application or request for funds re authority development project. Economic development statement. Expenditure of funds. Coordination of resources. (a) Any person, including, but not limited to, a state or municipal agency, requesting funds from the state, including…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 8-169oo. Bonds, notes and other obligations of the authority. (a) The board of directors of the Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority is authorized from time to time to issue its bonds, notes and other obligations in such principal amounts as in the opinion of the bo…

Sec. 8-169p. Definitions. As used in this part: (a) “Abandoned property” means any real property on which there is a vacant structure and on which (1) real property taxes have been delinquent for one year or more and orders have been issued by the municipality's fire official, bu…

Sec. 8-169pp. State's pledge to not limit or alter rights of authority or holders of bonds, notes and obligations or parties to contracts. The state of Connecticut does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any bonds, notes and other obligations issued under section 8-16…

Sec. 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 communit…

Sec. 8-169qq. Establishment and use of special capital reserve funds. Required minimum capital reserve. Conditions for bond issuance. (a) For the purposes of this section, “required minimum capital reserve” means the maximum amount permitted to be deposited in a special capital r…

Sec. 8-169r. Acquisition of abandoned property by urban homesteading agency. Certification of vacant municipally owned property. (a) In any municipality adopting an ordinance pursuant to section 8-169q, the building official shall certify to the urban homesteading agency (1) all …

Sec. 8-169rr. Economic development master plan. Development and submission to authority; review and approval. Section 8-169rr is repealed, effective October 1, 2024. (P.A. 19-117, S. 222; P.A. 24-81, S. 243.)

Sec. 8-169s. Disposition of property by urban homesteading agency. (a)(1) Upon acquisition of real property by the urban homesteading agency under section 8-169r or (2) upon certification by the building official of vacant municipally owned property under subdivision (2) of subse…

Sec. 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 receiv…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 8-169tt. Approval of housing growth zones. (a) As used in this section, “housing growth zone” means any area within a municipality in which applicable zoning regulations adopted pursuant to section 8-2 are designed to facilitate substantial development of new dwelling units …

Sec. 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…

Sec. 8-169uu. Authority development project impact evaluations. The authority may establish criteria to evaluate any potential impact of an authority development project. Such criteria shall include, but not be limited to, the impact the proposed project may have on the tax base …

Sec. 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 Uni…

Sec. 8-169vv. Technical support for member municipalities and joint member entities. The authority shall offer technical support to any member municipality or joint member entity in the development of project criteria and local regulations intended to substantially increase housi…

Sec. 8-169w. Urban Homesteading Fund created. Regulations. Bond authorization. (a) A fund to be known as the “Urban Homesteading Fund” is hereby created. Said fund shall be used (1) on a revolving basis to aid any urban homesteading agency in accordance with section 8-169q, in pr…

Secs. 8-169x to 8-169z. Reserved for future use. PART VIII ABANDONED AND BLIGHTED PROPERTY RECEIVERSHIP

Secs. 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 …

Sec. 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 me…

Sec. 8-187. Definitions. As used in this chapter, (1) “municipality” means a town, city, consolidated town and city or consolidated town and borough; (2) “legislative body” means (A) the board of selectmen in a town that does not have a charter, special act or home rule ordinance…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 8-189. Project plan. Approval. Notice. Review. (a) The development agency may initiate a development project by preparing a project plan in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner pursuant to section 8-198. The project plan shall meet an identified public nee…

Sec. 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 fif…

Sec. 8-191. Adoption of development plan. (a) Before the development agency adopts a plan for a development project, (1) the planning commission of the municipality shall find that the plan is in accord with the plan of development for the municipality; and (2) the regional counc…

Sec. 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 beca…

Sec. 8-192. Bond issues. Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated or its subsidiaries. Federal and state aid. Taxes. Temporary notes. (a) For the purpose of carrying out or administering a development plan or other functions authorized under this chapter, a municipality, acting by a…

Sec. 8-192a. Allocation of taxes on real or personal property in a development project. Any development 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 plan o…

Sec. 8-192b. Temporary notes. Extension of time for renewal. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) of section 8-192 and any other public or special act or charter or bond ordinance or bond resolution which limits the renewal of temporary notes issued pursuant to said s…

Sec. 8-193. Acquisition and transfer of real property. Procedure. Powers of agency. Limitations. (a) After approval of the development plan as provided in this chapter, the development agency may proceed by purchase, lease, exchange or gift with the acquisition or rental of real …

Sec. 8-194. Readjustment, relocation and removal of public service facilities. 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 electric distribution, gas, t…

Sec. 8-195. Development grants and special development grants. (a) The commissioner is authorized to make development grants to municipalities for development projects, provided (1) no such grant shall be made for any such project until said commissioner has given approval to the…

Sec. 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 app…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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 f…

Sec. 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 …

Sec. 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,…

Sec. 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…

Sec. 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 pr…

Sec. 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 c…