Any municipality which is a distressed municipality as defined in subsection (b) of section 32-9p, on October 1, 1987, may apply to the Commissioner of Housing to designate an area of such municipality as a housing development zone. Any such area shall consist of one or two contiguous United States census tracts or a portion of an individual census tract as determined in accordance with the most recent United States census. At least twenty-five per cent of the designated area shall be zoned or allow for multifamily residential dwellings.
(P.A. 87-378, S. 1; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing, effective June 19, 2013.