HB 5474 - NYU Furman Center

State Land Use Enacted Legislation

Bill #	State	Year	Party	Topic
HB 5474	CT	2024	D	Affordable housing incentives and financing, Deadlines, Streamline application, Vacant or blighted lands

Provided by Furman

Summary

Expands annual municipal housing reporting requirements to include an optional questionnaire on residential permit applications, proposed units, approvals, and denials, and requires publication of submitted questionnaires on the state economic development agency’s website.
Directs the legislative majority leaders’ affordable housing roundtable to study how municipal design review processes affect the cost and timeline of affordable housing development and to identify successful reforms used in other jurisdictions.
Requires municipalities to apply expedited “summary review” to qualifying applications to convert vacant nursing homes into multifamily housing, limits review to objective zoning compliance and public health and safety, and mandates a decision within 65 days when eligibility criteria are met.
Prioritizes housing agency applications for surplus state land when multiple agencies seek disposition and requires the housing commissioner to apply for such land when it can be used for housing for low- and moderate-income households.
Authorizes municipalities to impose higher blight penalties on larger residential and commercial developments while maintaining existing fee limits for smaller developments.
Extends the allowable duration of property tax assessment agreements between municipalities and property owners from 10 to 30 years and allows such agreements to apply to personal property as well as real property.
Authorizes municipalities to require licenses for short-term rental properties.
Allows municipalities to adopt ordinances permitting middle housing types—including duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, cottage clusters, and townhouses—as of right on any residential, commercial, or mixed-use lot, and awards housing-unit-equivalent credit toward exemption from the builder’s remedy statute for completed middle housing units.
Allows municipalities to use tax increment financing funds to renovate or rehabilitate mixed-income developments with expiring affordability restrictions located outside TIF districts, provided owners extend affordability for at least 40 years.
Expands a state financing program for environmental and energy retrofits in multifamily housing located in environmental justice communities or alliance districts by authorizing grants in addition to loans.
Protects certain vacant lots shown on recorded subdivision or resubdivision plans from later zoning changes by granting nonconforming use rights when recording and title conditions are met.
Allows eligible housing units completed before a temporary builder’s remedy moratorium—but not previously counted toward eligibility—to be counted toward qualification for a subsequent moratorium.

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Bill Title

An Act Concerning Municipal Approvals For Housing Development, Fines For Violations Of Local Ordinances, Regulation Of Short-Term Rentals, Rental Assistance Program Administration, Notices Of Rent Increases And The Housing Environmental Improvement Revolving Loan And Grant Fund.