General Assembly Committee Bill No. 825
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3965
*03965SB00825TRA*
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
(TRA)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 825
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 3965
*03965SB00825TRA*
Referred to Committee on Transportation
Introduced by:
(TRA)
AN ACT AMENDING STATE TRAFFIC COMMISSION CERTIFICATE OF OPERATION THRESHOLDS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 14-311 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):
(a) No person, firm, corporation, state agency, or municipal agency or combination thereof shall build, expand, establish or operate any open air theater, shopping center or other development generating large volumes of traffic, having an exit or entrance on, or abutting or adjoining, any state highway or substantially affecting state highway traffic within this state until such person or agency has procured from the State Traffic Commission a certificate that the operation thereof will not imperil the safety of the public, except that: (1) Any development that contains one hundred or fewer residential units shall not be required to obtain such a certificate if such development is a residential-only development and not part of a mixed-use development containing office, retail or other such nonresidential uses, and (2) any development that contains seventy-five or fewer residential units and has an associated club house or similar amenity that is open to the public shall not be required to obtain such a certificate.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2011 14-311(a)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2011
14-311(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To create a more reasonable threshold for residential and commercial developments required to obtain a certificate of operation, in order to promote permit streamlining, housing production, economic development and job growth.
[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. MAYNARD, 18th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
SEN. MAYNARD, 18th Dist.
S.B. 825