HB05475 - An Act Concerning The Development Of Housing, Challenges To Certain Decisions Of Municipal Agencies, And The Conversion Of Vacant Nursing Homes Into Multifamily Housing.

3 Co-Sponsors

To (1) require that a person claiming to be aggrieved by certain decisions of municipal commissions, agencies or boards demonstrate actual damage or an impairment of right, title or interest to such person's real property, (2) remove the right of protest against certain zoning changes by persons who do not own lots affected by such changes, (3) allow municipalities to adopt ordinances which exempt developments in certain areas from review by the inland wetlands agencies of such municipalities, (4) allow the conversion of vacant nursing homes into multifamily housing as of right, and (5) require the Commissioner of Housing to conduct a study of certain unused real property owned by the state to determine the suitability of such real property to improve affordable housing opportunities.