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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 697
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 2623
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND
DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING CE RTAIN MUNICIPAL AGREEMENTS TO FIX
ASSESSMENTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 12-65b of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021): 2
(a) (1) Any municipality may, by affirmative vote of its legislative 3
body or, pursuant to subdivision (2) of this subsection, its board of 4
selectmen, enter into a written agreement, for a period of not more than 5
ten years, with any party owning or proposing to acquire an interest in 6
real property in such municipality, or with any party owning or 7
proposing to acquire an interest in air space in such municipality, or 8
with any party who is the lessee of, or who proposes to be the lessee of, 9
air space in such municipality in such a manner that the air space leased 10
or proposed to be leased shall be assessed to the lessee pursuant to 11
section 12-64, fixing the assessment of the real property or air space 12
which is the subject of the agreement, and all improvements thereon or 13
therein and to be constructed thereon or therein, subject to the 14 Raised Bill No. 697
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provisions of subsection (b) of this section. For purposes of this section, 15
"improvements to be constructed" includes the rehabilitation of existing 16
structures for retail business use. 17
(2) In the case of a municipality where the legislative body is a town 18
meeting and such town meeting has adopted an ordinance delegating 19
to the board of selectmen the authority to enter into an agreement 20
described in subdivision (1) of this subsection, such board of selectmen 21
may enter into such agreement. 22
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall only apply if 23
the improvements are for at least one of the following: (1) Office use; (2) 24
retail use; (3) permanent residential use in connection with a residential 25
property consisting of four or more dwelling units; (4) transient 26
residential use in connection with a residential property consisting of 27
four or more dwelling units; (5) manufacturing use; (6) warehouse, 28
storage or distribution use; (7) structured multilevel parking use 29
necessary in connection with a mass transit system; (8) information 30
technology; (9) recreation facilities; (10) transportation facilities; (11) 31
mixed-use development, as defined in section 8-13m; or (12) use by or 32
on behalf of a health system, as defined in section 19a-508c. 33
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 12-65b
PD Joint Favorable