Bill Summary: HB05229

• Repeals and replaces section 8-2 of Connecticut general statutes effective October 1, 2019, authorizing zoning commissions to regulate sign height, size, location, brightness and illumination.

• Removes the term "advertising" from the statutory definition of signs and billboards that zoning commissions may regulate.

• Exempts signs and billboards without brightness or illumination calibration capability from any municipal ordinances regulating brightness or illumination adopted after the sign's installation date.

• Maintains comprehensive zoning commission authority to regulate buildings, structures, land use, density, yard sizes, and other development standards within municipalities.

• Preserves existing protections for nonconforming uses, child care homes, recycling receptacles, manufactured homes, and temporary health care structures in residential zones.