HB 5482 Summary

• Restructures Connecticut zoning statutes (Section 8-2) to require municipalities demonstrate compliance with affordable housing provisions by July 1, 2019 and every five years thereafter, with failure resulting in ineligibility for discretionary state funding unless waived.

• Establishes mandatory inclusionary zoning requirements for new multifamily housing developments with ten or more units: minimum 12% of units must be affordable (40-year deed restrictions), with at least 3% affordable to households earning ≤30% of median income, plus density bonus incentives up to 20%.

• Exempts supportive housing, assisted living facilities, developments with fewer than 10 units, and projects in distressed municipalities or low/very low opportunity census tracts from inclusionary zoning requirements.

• Adds fair housing promotion as an explicit purpose of zoning regulations and requires zoning commission consideration of Long Island Sound ecosystem protection in coastal municipalities.

• Creates a transit-oriented development planning task force to develop legislative recommendations and planning standards for transit-oriented development with affordable housing by December 1, 2019.