Sec. 8-169c. Preparation and content of a community development plan.
Sec. 8-169c. Preparation and content of a community development plan. (a)
Any municipality may prepare, or cause to be prepared a community development plan
for submission to the legislative body of such municipality for approval. Such plan shall
include:
(1) A summary of a three-year community development program which identifies
community development and housing needs, demonstrates a comprehensive strategy
for meeting those needs and specifies both short-term and long-term community development objectives which have been prepared in accordance with the general plan of
the municipality, area-wide development planning and state and national urban growth
policies;
(2) A program which describes the activities to be undertaken and the resources
expected to be made available to meet its community development needs and objectives,
including activities designed to revitalize neighborhoods for the benefit of low and
moderate income persons, together with the estimated costs and the general locations
of such activities;
(3) A description of the environmental considerations taken into account in the
preparation of the plan;
(4) A description of a program designed to (A) eliminate or prevent slums, blight and
deterioration where such conditions or needs exist; (B) provide improved community
facilities and public improvements, including the provision of supporting health, social
and similar services where necessary and appropriate; and in a manner to insure fully
the opportunity for participation by, and benefits to, the physically disabled and (C)
improved conditions for low and moderate income persons residing in or expected to
reside in the community and foster neighborhood development in order to induce higher
income persons to remain in, or return to, the community;
(5) A description of a housing assistance plan which (A) accurately describes the
conditions of the housing stock within the community and assesses the housing assistance needs of low and moderate income persons, including elderly and handicapped
persons, large families and persons displaced or to be displaced residing in or expected
to reside in the community and identifies housing stock which is in a deteriorated condition; (B) specifies a realistic goal during the program period for the number of dwelling
units or persons to be assisted, including (i) the relative proportion of new, rehabilitated
and existing dwelling units, (ii) the size and types of housing projects and assistance
best suited to the needs of the low and moderate income families and persons and (iii),
in the case of subsidized rehabilitation, adequate provisions to assure that a preponderance of persons assisted are of low and moderate income, and (C) indicates the general
locations of proposed housing for low and moderate income families and persons with
the objective of (i) furthering the revitalization of the community, including the restoration and rehabilitation of stable neighborhoods to the maximum extent possible, and
the reclamation of the housing stock where feasible through the use of a broad range of
techniques for housing restoration by local government, the private sector or community
organizations, including provision of a reasonable opportunity for tenants displaced as
a result of such activities to relocate in their immediate neighborhood, (ii) promoting
greater choice of housing opportunities and avoiding undue concentration of assisted
persons in areas containing a high proportion of low-income persons and (iii) assuring
the availability of public facilities and services adequate to serve proposed housing
projects.
(b) Where any community development activity proposed to be undertaken is to be
undertaken in a development project area, harbor improvement project area, housing
site development project area, redevelopment project area or urban renewal project area,
the community development plan shall state whether the proposed activity is subject to
the controls of an adopted plan for such project area and, if so, whether the activity
conforms to the plan for such project area. If any such activity is not in conformance
with the provisions of the plan for such project area, then the community development
plan shall state in what respects the plan for such project area must be modified or
amended.
(c) A community development plan may be based to the extent it is consistent with
the provisions of this section upon a plan of conservation and development adopted under
section 8-23 or a community development action plan. Any nonentitlement municipality
may also use its adopted plan of conservation and development or community development action plan, to the extent such plans have been kept current, as determined by the
commissioner, or the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in lieu of preparing
a community development plan under this section for the purpose of receiving state
financial assistance under section 8-169l.
(d) In the event the United States government, acting by and through the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development, waives any requirement under the provisions of
Section 104 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as from time
to time amended, the provisions of subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, of subsection (a)
of this section affected by such waiver shall not be applicable to any municipality.
(e) The provisions of this section and section 8-169d shall not be applicable to
any community development plan submitted to a legislative body of a municipality for
approval prior to July 1, 1975.
(P.A. 75-443, S. 3, 15; P.A. 76-70, S. 1, 4, 5; P.A. 78-373, S. 2; P.A. 82-186, S. 1; 82-322, S. 5, 6; P.A. 88-280, S. 3;
P.A. 95-335, S. 16, 26.)
History: P.A. 76-70 added Subsecs. (d) and (e) re exceptions to applicability of section; P.A. 78-373 amended Subsec.
(a)(1) to include housing needs, Subsec. (a)(2) to include provision for revitalizing neighborhoods, Subsec. (a)(4) to include
health and social services for physically disabled and to include provision for improvement of conditions for low and
moderate-income persons via neighborhood development and required identification of deteriorated housing stock, assistance to low and moderate-income persons in order to obtain subsidized rehabilitation and reclamation of housing stock
where possible and relocation assistance; P.A. 82-186 amended Subsec. (d) to exclude references to communities under
25,000 persons and to expand the possible scope of the waivers; P.A. 82-322 changed effective date of P.A. 82-186 from
October 1, 1982, to July 1, 1982; P.A. 88-280 made technical change in Subsec. (c); (Revisor's note: In 1993 an obsolete
reference in the first sentence in Subsec. (c) to "adopted pursuant to section 8-207" immediately following the reference
to "a community development action plan" was deleted editorially by the Revisors since Sec. 8-207 is repealed); P.A. 95-335 amended Subsec. (c) to change "plan of development" to "plan of conservation and development", effective July
1, 1995.
Cited (as P.A. 76-70). 183 C. 523.