General Assembly Committee Bill No. 686
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3900
*03900SB00686PD_*
Referred to Committee on Planning and Development
Introduced by:
(PD)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 686
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 3900
*03900SB00686PD_*
Referred to Committee on Planning and Development
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING APPLICATIONS TO THE STATE TRAFFIC COMMISSION AND A STUDY OF LAND USE PERMITTING PROCEDURES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2011) Whenever the State Traffic Commission receives an application from any person for an activity that will require local approval from a municipal planning commission, zoning commission, combined planning and zoning commission or inland wetlands commission, said commission shall not require such person to obtain such local approval before accepting such application for filing and shall process such application to the extent practicable without such local approval.
Sec. 2. (Effective from passage) On or before February 1, 2012, the Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee shall submit to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to planning and development an analysis of local and state-wide land use permitting requirements and procedures. Such study shall include, without limitation, an analysis of the interplay between state and local approval requirements and an identification of redundant and unduly burdensome steps or requirements that may hinder economic development in the state.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2011 New section
Sec. 2 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2011
New section
Sec. 2
from passage
New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the State Traffic Commission to accept applications from developers before such developers obtain local approval, and to require the Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee to study inefficiencies in the state's land use permitting process.
[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.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.
S.B. 686