City of Norwalk, CT
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2023-05-23
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Chapter 58 Housing, Tax Abatement
- Charter and Special Acts
- Ch 1 Charter and Related Laws
- Ch 5 Special Acts
- Ordinances
- Ch 7 General Provisions
- Ch 8 Adoption of Code
- Ch 9 Administration
- Ch 10 Adult Use, Licensing
- Ch 11 Air Pollution
- Ch 11A Alarm Systems
- Ch 12 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 14 Amusements
- Ch 15 Animals and Fowl
- Ch 17 Aquifer Protection Agency
- Ch 17A Arts and Culture Commission
- Ch 18 Auctions
- Ch 18A Body Care and Body Art Facilities
- Ch 18B Tanning Facilities
- Ch 19 Bidding and Purchasing
- Ch 20 Bike/Walk Advisory Commission
- Ch 21 Billboards and Signs
- Ch 26 Building Code
- Ch 27 Buildings and Facilities, City
- Ch 29 Cannabis
- Ch 30 Capital Projects Program
- Ch 30A Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 30B Chief of Staff
- Ch 31 Civil Preparedness
- Ch 32 Code of Ethics
- Ch 33 Community Services Department
- Ch 34 Contractors
- Ch 35 Conservation Commission
- Ch 35A Department of Code Enforcement
- Ch 35B Economic and Community Development
- Ch 36 Enterprise Zone
- Ch 37 Environmental Hazards
- Ch 38 Explosives
- Ch 39 Fair Rent
- Ch 40 Fire-Alarm Systems: Institutions
- Ch 41 Fire Department
- Ch 42 Fire Lanes
- Ch 42A Fire Prevention
- Ch 43 Floods and Erosion Control Board
- Ch 44 (Reserved)
- Ch 45 Food and Food Establishments
- Ch 47 Fuel-Oil Heating
- Ch 50 Gas and Oil Exploration
- Ch 53 Going-Out-Of-Business Sales
- Ch 54 (Reserved)
- Ch 55 Demolition Delay
- Ch 56 Historic District
- Ch 57 Health and Sanitation
- Ch 57A Historical Commission
- Ch 57B Home Health Care Agency
- Ch 57C Water Emergency
- Ch 58 Housing, Tax Abatement
- § 58-1 Definitions.
- § 58-2 Contracts for abatement.
- § 58-3 Term.
- § 58-4 State assistance.
- § 58-5 When effective.
- Ch 58A Blight Prevention
- Ch 59 Housing Code
- Ch 59A Housing: Equal Opportunity
- Ch 59B Housing Site Development Agency
- Ch 59C Housing Partnership
- Ch 59D Urban Rehabilitation Homeownership Program Tax Deferral
- Ch 60 Human Relations Commission
- Ch 60A Inland Wetlands and Watercourses
- Ch 61 Justices of the Peace
- Ch 62 Living Wage
- Ch 62A Landlord Identification
- Ch 63 Law Department
- Ch 64 Loitering for Solicitation
- Ch 65 Massage Establishments and Therapists
- Ch 66 Milk
- Ch 66A Mooring and Anchoring
- Ch 67 Motor Vehicle Junkyard Operations
- Ch 67A Municipal Liability
- Ch 68 Noise
- Ch 69 Norwalk Harbor
- Ch 70 Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Authority
- Ch 70A Nudity, Public
- Ch 71 Nuisances
- Ch 72 Numbering of Buildings and Trailers
- Ch 72A Panhandling and Loitering
- Ch 73 Park Authorities
- Ch 73A Parking Authority
- Ch 73B Parking Violations and Citations
- Ch 74 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 77 Peddlers, Street Vendors and Solicitors
- Ch 77A Pesticides
- Ch 78 Phased Increased Assessment
- Ch 79 Planning and Zoning Commission
- Ch 80 (Reserved)
- Ch 81 Pocket Bikes and Motorized Scooters
- Ch 83 Poles, Conduits, Wires and Fixtures
- Ch 84 Retirement Benefits
- Ch 85 Police Department: Cadet Corps
- Ch 85A Procurement Guidelines
- Ch 86 Public Lighting
- Ch 87 Public Library Board
- Ch 88 Public Gatherings and Special Events
- Ch 88A Public Safety Board
- Ch 89 Council of Governments
- Ch 89A Regional Council of Elected Officials
- Ch 90 Operations and Public Works, Department of
- Ch 91 Sewers, Public
- Ch 92 Septage Disposal
- Ch 93 Stormwater, Illicit Discharges and Connections
- Ch 94 Solid Waste Collection & Disposal; Transfer Station & Yard Waste Site
- Ch 95 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 95A Littering and Illegal Dumping
- Ch 96 Excavations and Encroachments in Public Streets and Grounds
- Ch 97 Excavating and Filling of Land
- Ch 98 Vehicle and Traffic
- Ch 99 Snow Emergencies
- Ch 100 Special Services Districts
- Ch 101 Scenic Roads
- Ch 102 Swimming Pools
- Ch 103 Taxation
- Ch 104 Tenements: Abatement of Nuisances
- Ch 105 Tenement Houses: Registration
- Ch 106 (Reserved)
- Ch 107 Town Clerk, Compensation of
- Ch 108 (Reserved)
- Ch 111 (Reserved)
- Ch 112 Trees
- Ch 113 Water Pollution Control Authority
- Ch 114 Water Use for Tree Spraying
- Ch 115 Women, Commission on Status of
- Ch 116 Zoning Board of Appeals
- Ch 117 Zoning Enforcement
- Ch 118 Zoning
- Appendix
- Part I
- Ch 125 Land Subdivision Regulations
- Part II
- Ch 126 Pension Plan
- Part III
- Ch 127 Sewer Assessments
- Part IV
- Ch 128 Veteran's Memorial Park
- Part V
- Ch 129 Voting Hours
- Part VI
- Ch 130 Welfare Benefits
- Part VII
- Ch 131 Salaries
- Part VIII
- Ch 132 Food Service Employees Pension Plan
- Part IX
- Ch 133 Executive Orders
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted City of Norwalk Common Council 3-11-1969. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
For the purposes of this ordinance:
Means housing, the construction or rehabilitation of which
is aided or assisted in any way by any federal) or state statute,
which housing is subject to regulation or supervision of rents, charges
or sale prices and methods of operation by a governmental agency under
a regulatory agreement or other instrument which restricts occupancy
of such housing to persons or families whose incomes do not exceed
prescribed limits.
Means a person or persons, partnership, joint venture or
corporation who or which has executed or will execute a regulatory
agreement or other instrument with a governmental agency, either federal,
state or local, which limits occupancy of the low- and moderate-income
housing owned or to be owned by such person or persons, partnership,
joint venture or corporation to persons or families whose incomes
do not exceed prescribed limits.
The Mayor may enter into contracts[1] for the city with owners of low- and moderate-income housing,
granting abatement in whole or in part of the taxes on the real estate,
used for such low- and moderate-income housing. The amount of such
abatement shall be established in each such contract, giving due consideration
to the purpose or purposes to which the money equivalent of the taxes
so, abated is to be applied. Each such contract shall require that
the owner apply the money equivalent of the taxes so abated to one
or more of the following specified purposes:
A.Â
To reduce rents below the levels which would be achieved in the absence
of such abatement;
B.Â
To improve the quality and design of such housing;
C.Â
To effect occupancy of such housing by persons and families of varying
income levels within limits determined by the Commissioner of Community
Affairs by regulation; and
D.Â
To provide necessary related facilities or services in such housing.
[Amended 3-10-1970]
The abatement shall become effective on the date specified in
the contract between the city and an owner of low- and moderate-income
housing. The term of abatement shall extend for the remainder of the
fiscal year in which abatement becomes effective and may continue
for a period not to exceed 39 consecutive fiscal years thereafter;
provided that such abatement shall terminate at any time when the
property for which tax abatement had been granted is not used solely
for low- and moderate-income housing; and provided further that the
continuation of such abatement may be conditioned upon the continuation
of state reimbursement to the city for such abatement. The abatement
authorized herein shall be granted only for low- and moderate-income
housing upon which construction or rehabilitation commenced after
July 1, 1967.
The Mayor shall, with the approval of the Common Council, execute
on behalf of the city contracts with the state for financial assistance
by the state in the form of reimbursement for the tax abatement granted
to an owner of low- and moderate-income housing in accordance with
this ordinance.
This ordinance shall take effect on passage, after due compliance with § 1-193, Norwalk City Charter.
