Connecticut HB 5362: AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MAJORITY LEADER'S ROUNDTABLE.

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General Assembly  
Substitute Bill No. 5362  
February Session, 2026 
 
 
 
 
 
AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 
MAJORITY LEADER'S ROUNDTABLE.  
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of Representatives  in  General 
Assembly convened: 
 
Section  1.  Subsection  (a)  of  section  8-30g of  the  2026  supplement  to 1 
the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2 
thereof (Effective October 1, 2026): 3 
(a) As used in this section: 4 
(1) "Affordable  housing  development"  means  a  proposed  housing 5 
development   which   is   (A)   assisted   housing,   or   (B)   a   set-aside 6 
development; 7 
(2) "Affordable housing application" means any application made to 8 
a commission in connection with an affordable housing development by 9 
a person who proposes to develop such affordable housing; 10 
(3) "Assisted  housing"  means  housing  which  is  receiving,  or  will 11 
receive,  financial  assistance  under  any  governmental  program  for  the 12 
construction or substantial rehabilitation of low and moderate income 13 
housing,   and   any   housing   occupied   by   persons   receiving   rental 14 
assistance under chapter 319uu or Section 1437f of Title 42 of the United 15 
States Code; 16 

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(4) "Commission"     means     a     zoning     commission,     planning 17 
commission, planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals 18 
or municipal agency exercising zoning or planning authority; 19 
(5) "Municipality"   means   any   town,   city   or   borough,   whether 20 
consolidated or unconsolidated; 21 
(6) "Set-aside development" means a development in which not less 22 
than  thirty  per  cent  of  the  dwelling  units  will  be  conveyed  by  deeds 23 
containing covenants or restrictions which shall require that, for at least 24 
[forty  years  after  the  initial  occupation  of  the  proposed  development] 25 
the  applicable  time  period  set  forth  in  subparagraph  (A)  or  (B)  of  this 26 
subdivision, such  dwelling  units  shall  be  sold  or  rented  at,  or  below, 27 
prices which will preserve the units as housing for which persons and 28 
families pay thirty per cent or less of their annual income, where such 29 
income is less than or equal to eighty per cent of the median income. In 30 
a  set-aside  development,  of  the  dwelling  units  conveyed  by  deeds 31 
containing covenants or restrictions, a number of dwelling units equal 32 
to not less than fifteen per cent of all dwelling units in the development 33 
shall be sold or rented to persons and families whose income is less than 34 
or equal to sixty per cent of the median income and the remainder of the 35 
dwelling units conveyed by deeds containing covenants or restrictions 36 
shall be sold or rented to persons and families whose income is less than 37 
or equal to eighty per cent of the median income, for at least (A) twenty 38 
years  after  the  initial  occupation  of  a  proposed  development  built  on 39 
land  owned  by  a  municipality  or  conveyed  by  a  municipality  to  a 40 
developer  for  the  purpose  of  constructing  such  development,  or  (B) 41 
forty years after the initial occupation of a proposed development built 42 
on land not owned by a municipality or conveyed by a municipality to 43 
a developer for the purpose of constructing such development; 44 
(7) "Median  income"  means,  after  adjustments  for  family  size,  the 45 
lesser of the state median income or the area median income for the area 46 
in    which    the    municipality    containing    the    affordable    housing 47 
development is located, as determined by the United States Department 48 
of Housing and Urban Development; and 49 

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(8) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Housing. 50 
Sec.  2.  Subsection  (f)  of  section  8-30g of  the  2026  supplement  to  the 51 
general  statutes  is  repealed  and  the  following  is  substituted  in  lieu 52 
thereof (Effective October 1, 2026): 53 
(f) Except  as  provided  in  subsections  (k)  and  (l)  of  this  section,  any 54 
person whose affordable housing application is denied, or is approved 55 
with  restrictions  which  have  a  substantial  adverse  impact  on  the 56 
viability  of  the  affordable  housing  development  or  the  degree  of 57 
affordability    of    the    affordable    dwelling    units    in    a    set-aside 58 
development, may appeal such decision pursuant to the procedures of 59 
this section. Such appeal shall be filed within the time period for filing 60 
appeals as set forth in section 8-8, 8-9, 8-28 or 8-30a, as applicable, and 61 
shall  be  made  returnable  to  the  superior  court  for  the  judicial  district 62 
where the real property which is the subject of the application is located. 63 
Upon  motion  by  the  municipality,  the  court  s