§ 8-1a — “Municipality” and “town” to include district; “selectmen” to include district officers. Definitions.

(a) “Municipality” as used in this chapter shall include a district establishing a zoning commission under section 7-326. Wherever the words “town” and “selectmen” appear in this chapter, they shall be deemed to include “district” and “officers of such district”, respectively. (b) As used in this chapter: (1) “Accessory apartment” means a separate dwelling unit that (A) is located on the same lot as a principal dwelling unit of greater square footage, (B) has cooking facilities, and (C) complies with or is otherwise exempt from any applicable building code, fire code and health and safety regulations; (2) “Affordable accessory apartment” means an accessory apartment that is subject to binding recorded deeds which contain covenants or restrictions that require such accessory apartment be sold or rented at, or below, prices that will preserve the unit as housing for which, for a period of not less than ten years, persons and families pay thirty per cent or less of income, where such income is less than or equal to eighty per cent of the median income; (3) “As of right” or “as-of-right” means able to be approved in accordance with the terms of a zoning regulation or regulations and without requiring that a public hearing be held, a variance, special permit or special exception be granted or some other discretionary zoning action be taken, other than a determination that a site plan is in conformance with applicable zoning regulations; (4) “Cottage cluster” means a grouping of at least four detached housing units, or live work units, per acre that are located around a common open area; (5) “Live work unit” means a building or a space within a building used for both commercial and residential purposes by an individual residing within such building or space; (6) “Middle housing” means duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, cottage clusters and townhouses; (7) “Mixed-use development” means a development containing both residential and nonresidential uses in any single building; and (8) “Townhouse” means a residential building constructed in a grouping of three or more attached units, each of which shares at least one common wall with an adjacent unit and has exterior walls on at least two sides.

Legislative History

(1959, P.A. 577, S. 1; P.A. 21-29, S. 1; P.A. 24-143, S. 10.) History: P.A. 21-29 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) to define “accessory apartment”, “affordable accessory apartment”, “as of right”, “cottage cluster”, “middle housing”, “mixed-use development” and “townhouse”; P.A. 24-143 amended Subsec. (b) to add new Subdiv. (5) defining “live work unit” and redesignated existing Subdivs. (5) to (7) as Subdivs. (6) to (8). Cited. 212 C. 375; 216 C. 112.