AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN PARCELS OF STATE LAND.

1. authorizes conveyances of state property to the towns of Ansonia, East Lyme, Ridgefield, and South Windsor;

2. authorizes the sale of three parcels of Department of Transportation (DOT) property in Andover to individuals for their fair market value;

3. amends prior conveyances in Greenwich, Griswold, Middletown, New Britain, New Haven and repeals a prior conveyance in Norwalk; and

4. requires (a) DOT to convey an easement to Danbury and (b) state agencies and the City of Middletown to grant a conservation easement to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

The bill requires the following conveyances from the agencies to the towns named for the purpose specified:

1. DEP to Ridgefield for recreational purposes (2. 146 acres),

2. Connecticut National Guard to East Lyme for municipal purposes (3. 29 acres),

3. Department of Correction to East Lyme for recreational purposes (8 acres),

4. DEP to Ansonia for municipal purposes (2. 2 acres), and

5. DOT to South Windsor for economic development purposes (4. 84 acres).

Each of the new conveyances is subject to the State Properties Review Board's (SPRB) approval and must be made at a cost equal to the administrative cost of the conveyance, unless otherwise noted. The property reverts to the state if the recipient uses the parcel for any purpose other than that specified in the bill.

1. two parcels (5. 1 acres and 6. 2 acres) to Carolyn J. Sheehan and Edward F. Sheehan,

2. 15 acres to Lawrence E. Green and Fay E. Green, and

3. 9. 9 acres to John H. Yeomens.

These conveyances must be approved by SPRB and the recipients must pay the fair market value plus administrative costs of the conveyance.

The bill amends a 2007 land conveyance from the DOT that, under current law, must be conveyed to Derek Viel. The bill conveys the 0. 06 acre parcel to the City of New Britain.

It conveys to the City of New Haven, rather than transferring to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), 2. 7 acres of property in New Haven. New Haven must use the property for economic development purposes; the designated use under the 2007 conveyance to DMHAS is for Connecticut Mental Health Center parking. The conveyance to the city includes the typical conditions that it be made for administrative costs, subject to the SPRB's approval, and includes the reversion requirement.

The bill adds the improvements that are on four parcels of land that the Department of Children and Families (DCF) conveyed to Middletown in 1999. Under the bill, the land and the improvements are still to be used for municipal purposes or the property and the improvements revert to the state.

The bill substitutes municipal purposes for open space as the required use for 0. 49 acres of Department of Public Works property conveyed in 1998 to Greenwich. It deletes from the reversion clause a requirement in a 2007 conveyance from DEP to Griswold that it develop recreational fields within five years of the conveyance.

The bill repeals a 2008 requirement that DOT convey 6. 8 acres in Norwalk to the Building and Land Technology, Inc. for the fair market value of the property plus the administrative costs of the conveyance.

The bill requires DOT to convey to Danbury, for the fair market value of a defined trail corridor, a permanent easement over DOT land for the creation of the Ives Trail and Greenway.

The bill requires DMHAS, DCF, the City of Middletown, and Middlesex Community College to grant conservation easements to DEP over certain parcels of land for preserving reservoirs, watershed, aquifers, and other water supply lands on or around the Connecticut Valley Hospital.

Yea

Nay

(03/30/2009)