General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5461
February Session, 2020 LCO No. 2362
Referred to Committee on FINANCE, REVENUE AND
BONDING
Introduced by:
(FIN)
AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL BUILDING PROJECT GRANTS FOR
INCLUSIVE MUNICIPALITIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 Section 1. Section 10-285a of the 2020 supplement to the general
2 statutes is amended by adding subsection (k) as follows (Effective from
3 passage):
4 (NEW) (k) The percentage determined pursuant to this section for a
5 school building project grant, for a school under the jurisdiction of a
6 local or regional board of education for a municipality that the
7 Department of Housing has deemed to be an inclusive municipality,
8 that is approved on or after July 1, 2022, shall be increased by ten
9 percentage points. As used in this subsection, "inclusive municipality"
10 means any town that: (1) Has a total population, as defined in section
11 10-261, of greater than six thousand; (2) has less than ten per cent of its
12 housing units determined by the Department of Housing to be
13 affordable; (3) has adopted and maintained zoning regulations that (A)
14 promote fair housing, as determined by said department, (B) provide a
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15 streamlined process for multifamily housing of three units or more, (C)
16 permit mixed-use development, and (D) allow accessory dwelling units;
17 and (4) has constructed new affordable housing units that (A) are
18 restricted, through deeds, covenants or other means, to individuals or
19 families that are at or below eighty per cent of the state median income,
20 and (B) equal at least one per cent of such town's total housing units in
21 the three years immediately preceding the submission of an application
22 under this section.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 10-285a
Statement of Purpose:
To provide that school building project grants for inclusive
municipalities be increased by ten percentage points.
[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.]
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