Bill Text: CT HB06004 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Municipal Applications For Land Use Permits And Tax Abatements.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development [HB06004 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB06004-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 6004
January Session, 2017		LCO No. 5631
		*05631HB06004PD_*
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)

AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL APPLICATIONS FOR LAND USE PERMITS AND TAX ABATEMENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2017) (a) In addition to any powers it has under the provisions of the general statutes or any special act, each municipality shall require each applicant for a land use permit filed with such municipality's zoning commission, planning commission, combined planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals or inland wetlands commission or for a tax abatement to disclose the following, in writing, upon submission of the application: (1) The name, address, Internet web site address, if any, and telephone number of the property owner, developer and intended occupant, if any, of the property subject to the application, (2) a statement describing the specific purpose of the application, and (3) the relationship of the person signing the application to the property owner and developer, if such person is not the property owner or developer.

(b) Each applicant required to make disclosures pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall update any change in the information disclosed pursuant to said subsection not later than five business days after such change.

(c) Any person who files an application described in subsection (a) of this section shall include a brief statement in any public notice made pursuant to such application that identifies the specific purpose of such application.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2017	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To create transparency so that municipal officials and the public have accurate information regarding the purpose of any development requiring land use, zoning or wetlands approval or for the purpose of a tax abatement.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

Co-Sponsors:

REP. BARAM, 15th Dist.; REP. SLAP, 19th Dist. SEN. BYE, 5th Dist.

H.B. 6004