Emergency Certification
AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPALITIES AND SOLID WASTE FACILITIES
SUMMARY: This act specifies that a municipality can regulate solid waste facility land use through zoning regulations but prohibits regulations adopted as authorized by state zoning law (though not by special act) from effectively banning solid waste facility construction, alteration, or operation in the municipality. By law, a “solid waste facility” is a solid waste disposal area, volume reduction plant, transfer station, wood-burning facility, or biomedical waste treatment facility (CGS § 22a-207(4)).
EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
BACKGROUND
Related Case
In Recycling Inc. v. City of Milford, 50 Conn. L. Rptr. 866 (2010), the Superior Court held that the legislature, in PA 06-76, intended to preempt local regulatory authority of solid waste facilities except facilities for land disposal of solid waste (i. e. , landfills). The 2006 act, in part, repealed a provision in the Solid Waste Management Act that allowed local governing bodies to regulate land use for solid waste disposal through zoning.
OLR Tracking: KLM: MJ: JL: ro