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

Sec. 8-3. Establishment and changing of zoning regulations and districts. Enforcement of regulations. Certification of building permits and certificates of occupancy. Site plans. District for water-dependent uses. (a) Such zoning commission shall provide for the manner in which r…

Sec. 8-3a. Findings of consistency of proposed regulations or boundaries with the plan of development. Referral of proposed regulations or boundaries to planning commission. (a) In any municipality which has a combined planning and zoning commission operating under the general st…

Sec. 8-3b. Notice to regional council of governments of proposed zone or zone use change. When the zoning commission of any municipality proposes to establish or change a zone or any regulation affecting the use of a zone any portion of which is within five hundred feet of the bo…

Sec. 8-3c. Special permits, exceptions and exemptions. Hearings. Filing requirements. Expiration and extensions. (a) If an application for a special permit or special exception involves an activity regulated pursuant to sections 22a-36 to 22a-45, inclusive, the applicant shall su…

Sec. 8-3d. Variances, special permits, special exceptions and special exemptions to be recorded. No variance, special permit or special exception granted pursuant to this chapter, chapter 126 or any special act, and no special exemption granted under section 8-2g, shall be effect…

Sec. 8-3e. Regulation of community residences for persons with intellectual disability, child-care residential facilities, community residences for persons receiving mental health or addiction services and hospice facilities. (a) No zoning regulation shall treat the following in …

Sec. 8-3f. Establishment of community residences for persons with intellectual disability and child-care residential facilities. No (1) community residence, except a community residence that (A) houses eight or fewer persons with intellectual disability and necessary staff person…

Sec. 8-3g. Regulation of community residences for mentally ill adults and UCONN 2000 projects. (a) No zoning regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter or any special act shall prohibit any community residence in any area which is zoned to allow structures containing two or more…

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 Section 8-3h is repealed, effective October 1, 2003.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

Sec. 8-3i. Notice to Department of Public Health and water company re applications, petitions, requests and plans re land within aquifer protection area or watershed of water company. (a) As used in this section “water company” means a water company, as defined in section 25-32a,…

Sec. 8-3j. Regulation of family child care homes. (a) No zoning regulation shall treat any family child care home or group child care home, located in a residence and licensed by the Office of Early Childhood pursuant to chapter 368a, in a manner different from single or multifam…

Sec. 8-3k. Expirations and extensions of site plan, subdivision, permit, special permit and special exception approvals. (a)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any special act, any site plan, subdivision or permit approval by a zoning commission, planning commission, combined p…

Sec. 8-3l. Annual reports re dwelling units permitted and demolished. Residential permit applications questionnaire. (a)(1) Not later than March 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, each municipality shall report to the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, in a form …

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…

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.)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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.)

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…

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…

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.)

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 …

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…

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…

Secs. 8-14 to 8-17. Purpose. License. Appeal. Exceptions. Sections 8-14 to 8-17, inclusive, are repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 849–852; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 42; 1967, P.A. 69.)

Sec. 8-17a. Land use ordinances. Any town, city or borough which, on June 8, 1982, has not adopted the provisions of chapter 124 and which is not exercising zoning power pursuant to any special act may, by ordinance, prescribe minimum land use regulations reasonably related to pu…

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,…