Bill Text: CT SB00825 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Amending State Traffic Commission Certificate Of Operation Thresholds.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-03 - Public Hearing 03/07 [SB00825 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2011-SB00825-Comm_Sub.html
General Assembly |
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January Session, 2011 |
LCO No. 3965 | ||
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Referred to Committee on Transportation |
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Introduced by: |
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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 Subsection (a) of section 14-311 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2011):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) |
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.]