Any municipality which has a planning commission is authorized, by vote of its legislative body, to designate the economic development commission or the redevelopment agency of such municipality or a nonprofit development corporation as its development agency and exercise through such agency the powers granted under this chapter, except that the Quinnipiac Valley Development Corporation, organized and existing by virtue of the provisions of number 625 of the special acts of 1957, may be designated as a development agency, for the purposes of this chapter, to act as such within the geographical area specified in section 2 of said special act. Any municipality may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a separate economic development commission, redevelopment agency or nonprofit development corporation as its development agency for each development project undertaken by the municipality pursuant to this chapter.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 8-188
Designation of development agency
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
Most recently applied in Kelo v. City of New London (June 2005)
(1967, P.A. 760, S. 3; 1969, P.A. 404, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 86; P.A. 78-357, S. 10, 16; P.A. 82-55, S. 2, 3.) History: 1969 act allowed consideration of Quinnipiac Valley Developmen…
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