OLR Bill Analysis

sHB 7040

AN ACT CONCERNING RESUBDIVISIONS AND CLARIFYING CONSIDERATIONS OF INLAND WETLANDS DECISIONS BY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONS.

SUMMARY:

This bill requires a planning commission that has received an application to subdivide or resubdivide of land regulated as an inland wetland or watercourse by a local wetland agency, to accept the application and process it on the commission's schedule set in existing law. By law, the commission must consider the wetland agency's report in making its decision. The bill requires the commission, if it imposes terms and conditions that are not consistent with the wetland agency's final decision, to state its reasons for the terms and conditions on the record. The bill imposes the same requirements on zoning commissions when they act on site plan applications that are also subject to a wetlands agency jurisdiction.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2007

COMMITTEE ACTION

Planning and Development Committee

Joint Favorable Substitute