2018 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 8 - Zoning, Planning, Housing and Economic and Community Development
Chapter 124* - Zoning
- Section 8-1 - Zoning commissions.
- Section 8-1a - “Municipality” to include district.
- Section 8-1aa - Ridgeline protection: Definitions.
- Section 8-1b - Alternate members of zoning commission or combined planning and zoning commission.
- Section 8-1bb - Temporary health care structures. Municipal permit required. Municipal opt-out.
- Section 8-1c - Fees for municipal land use applications.
- Section 8-1d - Hours for holding land use public hearings.
- Section 8-1e to 8-1y - Reserved for future use.
- Section 8-1z - Exclusion of conservation easement from open space percentage allocation required for land use application.
- Section 8-2 - Regulations.
- Section 8-2a - Copies of zoning and subdivision regulations to be available.
- Section 8-2b - Use of maps of Soil Conservation Service as standard.
- Section 8-2c - Payment of a fee in lieu of parking requirements.
- Section 8-2d - Planned unit developments under former chapter 124a continue to be valid.
- Section 8-2e - Municipal agreements regarding development rights.
- Section 8-2f - Joint applications necessary for transfer of development rights.
- Section 8-2g - Special exemption from density limits for construction of affordable housing.
- Section 8-2h - Zoning applications filed prior to change in zoning regulations not required to comply with change. Applications for building permit or certificate of occupancy filed prior to adoption of zoning regulations not required to comply with regulations.
- Section 8-2i - Inclusionary zoning.
- Section 8-2j - Village districts. Compatibility objectives with other uses in immediate neighborhood. Applications. Village district consultant.
- Section 8-2k - Zoning regulations re construction near lakes.
- Section 8-2l - Zoning regulations re structures or uses located in floodplain.
- Section 8-2m - Floating and overlay zones and flexible zoning districts.
- Section 8-2n - Zoning regulations re crematories.
- Section 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.
- Section 8-3a - Findings of consistency of proposed regulations or boundaries with the plan of development. Referral of proposed regulations or boundaries to planning commission.
- Section 8-3b - Notice to regional council of governments of proposed zone or zone use change.
- Section 8-3c - Special permits, exceptions and exemptions. Hearings. Filing requirements.
- Section 8-3d - Variances, special permits, special exceptions and special exemptions to be recorded.
- Section 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.
- Section 8-3f - Establishment of community residences for persons with intellectual disability and child-care residential facilities.
- Section 8-3g - Regulation of community residences for mentally ill adults and UCONN 2000 projects.
- Section 8-3h - Notice to adjoining municipalities.
- Section 8-3i - Notice to water company re projects within aquifer protection area or watershed of water company.
- Section 8-3j - Regulation of family child care homes.
- Section 8-4 - Zoning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission.
- Section 8-4a - Zoning or planning commission may be designated as planning and zoning commission.
- Section 8-4b - Change from combined commission to separate commissions.
- Section 8-5 - Zoning board of appeals. Alternate members.
- Section 8-5a - Designation of alternate members to act.
- Section 8-5b - Ordinance may provide for appointment of alternate members.
- Section 8-6 - Powers and duties of board of appeals.
- Section 8-6a - Appeal to be heard before variance when both joined.
- Section 8-7 - Appeals to board. Hearings. Effective date of exceptions or variances; filing requirements.
- Section 8-7a - Evidence at hearings and meetings to deliberate formal petitions, applications, requests or appeals to be taken by stenographer or recorded.
- Section 8-7b - Notice to contiguous municipalities of variance applications.
- Section 8-7c - Disclosure of beneficiaries of real property held in trust.
- Section 8-7d - Hearings and decisions. Time limits. Day of receipt. Notice to adjoining municipality. Public notice registry.
- Section 8-7e - Notice to adjoining municipalities of applications or requests.
- Section 8-8 - Appeal from board to court. Mediation. Review by Appellate Court.
- Section 8-8a - Process for mediation.
- Section 8-9 - Appeals from zoning commissions and planning and zoning commissions. Review by Appellate Court.
- Section 8-10 - Appeals procedure to apply to all municipalities.
- Section 8-11 - Disqualification of members of zoning authorities.
- Section 8-11a - Disqualification of board member as enforcement officer.
- Section 8-12 - Procedure when regulations are violated.
- Section 8-12a - Establishment of municipal penalties for violations of regulations.
- Section 8-13 - Controlling requirement in case of variation.
- Section 8-13a - Nonconforming buildings, structures and land uses.
*Constitutionality of zoning; restoration of nonconforming use. 110 C. 92. No impairment of vested rights by adoption of regulations after contract made to purchase land and work commenced. Id., 141. Cited. 112 C. 240, 245; 113 C. 50; 116 C. 555; 118 C. 7; 123 C. 480; 124 C. 54. History of zoning laws in state. 133 C. 250. Cited. 139 C. 119; 143 C. 152, 280. No municipality is obliged to establish a planning commission, and statutory authority granted to towns, cities and boroughs under this chapter for establishment of zoning commission is not conditioned on simultaneous exercise of powers granted under chapter 126. 144 C. 117. Cited. 145 C. 435, 625; 147 C. 65; 148 C. 492. Entire history of zoning legislation indicates clear intention on part of General Assembly, subject to certain underlying principles, to leave solution of zoning questions to local authority; courts must not substitute their discretion for wide and liberal discretion enjoyed by zoning agencies; court can grant relief on appeal only where local authority has acted arbitrarily or illegally and has thus abused discretion vested in it. 150 C. 79. Cited. Id., 131; 154 C. 203; Id., 463. Chapter is a general zoning enabling act and has no effect in city of Hartford whose legislative body has not acted to adopt it, except as to such provisions as Secs. 8-8 through 8-10 which the legislature intended should apply to all municipalities. 155 C. 360. Provisions of Sec. 8-7 held not to apply to municipality until it has adopted chapter as provided in Sec. 8-1. Id., 422. City of Norwalk has been acting under general statutes in zoning matters since 1929; therefore provisions of chapter apply to appeal from its board. Id., 550. Cited. 157 C. 308, 552. Whether or not a municipality adopts chapter, appeals from its final zoning authority are governed by Sec. 8-10. 159 C. 1. Cited. Id., 598. Amendments to zoning regulations are essentially legislative actions and courts will not disturb them unless amendment violates chapter or is “patently arbitrary”. 164 C. 210. Zoning in Norwich is controlled by special act, hence its charter and not this chapter controls the reference to referendum of a zoning ordinance. 167 C. 579. Cited. 171 C. 480. Fact that town and zoning enforcement officer, defendants in the action, were not named in the two previous actions does not preclude application of doctrine of res judicata; since they represent the rights of the municipality, the agents of the same municipal corporation are in privity with each other and with the municipality. 181 C. 556. Cited. 189 C. 261; 208 C. 267; 211 C. 690; 213 C. 604; 221 C. 374; 227 C. 71.
Cited. 2 CA 595; 22 CA 407; 35 CA 317.
Where building permit has been properly obtained, it may not arbitrarily be revoked, particularly where, on faith of it, owner has incurred material expense and substantial liabilities. 23 CS 461. Cited. 25 CS 278; 28 CS 286.
