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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1114
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 7980
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT RELINQUISHING THE STATE INTEREST IN A PARCEL OF
LAND CONVEYED TO THE TOWN OF EAST WINDSOR.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) Notwithstanding the provisions of 1
section 8-214d of the general statutes and (1) a certain restriction 2
contained in a Restrictive Covenant entered into between the State of 3
Connecticut, Department of Housing and Creative Housing, Inc., dated 4
September 30, 1992, and recorded in the Town of East Windsor Land 5
Records in Volume 169, Page 942, that the community housing land 6
bank and land trust parcel of land described in said agreement on 7
Phelps Road in the town of East Windsor shall be used for "the benefit 8
of low and moderate income persons", and (2) a certain restriction when 9
said parcel of land was conveyed to the town of East Windsor by the 10
Department of Housing with the approval of the State Bond 11
Commission obtained on December 14, 2020, and noted as item 30 on 12
said bond commission agenda that said parcel "be used for, or in 13
conjunction with, activities related to, or similar to, any program 14
administered by the commissioner pursuant to state or federal law", said 15 Raised Bill No. 1114
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restrictions may be released, relinquished and have no further force and 16
effect, the town of East Windsor may convey said parcels free of said 17
restrictions and the parcels may be used for other than (A) low and 18
moderate income purposes, or (B) activities related to or similar to 19
programs administered by the Commissioner of Housing. 20
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To remove a restriction that a parcel of land conveyed by the state to the
town of East Windsor be used for low and moderate income housing or
related activities.
[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.]