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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-141 (2025)

Urban renewal projects authorized

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In addition to its authority under other provisions of this chapter, a redevelopment agency is authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects. As used in this part, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the elimination, and for the prevention of the development or spread, of slums or substandard, insanitary, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating areas, and may involve any work or undertaking for such purpose constituting a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such undertaking or work. For this purpose, rehabilitation or conservation work may include (1) carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements; (2) acquisition of real property and demolition, removal or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon where the agency has determined the same to be necessary to eliminate unhealthful, insanitary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities; (3) installation, construction or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and (4) the disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal project, of any property or part thereof acquired in the area of such project; provided such disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in this part for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area.

(1955, S. 498d; 1959, P.A. 397, S. 6.)

History: 1959 act added words “or deteriorating” in second sentence.

Cited. 158 C. 522.

Cited. 26 CS 249.

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1965–1969 · leading case: Broadriver, Inc. v. City of Stamford, 265 A.2d 75 (Conn. 1969).
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Broadriver, Inc. v. City of Stamford, 265 A.2d 75 (Conn. 1969). · cites it 2× “gued that the plaintiff’s property was, in reality, taken for a private purpose through the unjustified reliance, by the commission, on an unenforceable and sham contract utilized to permit preselected redevelopers to control decisions which the commission should have made; and…”
State v. Schaffel, 229 A.2d 552 (Conn. App. Ct. 1966). “Ample statutory authorization for the enactment of a municipal housing code may be found in General Statutes, title 8, chapter 130 part II, entitled “Urban Benewal,” particularly §§ 8-141, 8-143, 8-144 and 8-145; see title 7, “Municipalities,” particularly §§ 7-148, 7-194 (26),…”
Bridgeport Taxpayers Ass'n v. City of Bridgeport, 217 A.2d 718 (Conn. Super. Ct. 1965). “Section 8-142 of the General Statutes provides as follows: “Any urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to section 8-141 shall be undertaken in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the area of the project.”
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