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      Sec. 8-26b. Notice to regional planning agency of proposed subdivision; report of agency findings. Whenever a subdivision of land is planned, the area of which will abut or include land in two or more municipalities one or both of which are within a region or regions having a regional planning agency or agencies, the planning commission, where one exists, of each such municipality shall, before approving the plan, give written notice of such subdivision plan to the regional planning agency or agencies of the region in which it or the other municipality is located. Such notice shall be made by certified mail, return receipt requested not later than thirty days before the public hearing to be held in relation thereto. A regional planning agency receiving such notice shall, at or before the hearing report to each such planning commission and to the proponent of such subdivision on its findings on the intermunicipal aspects of the proposed subdivision, including street layout, storm drainage, sewer and water service and such other matters as it considers appropriate. If such report of a regional planning agency is not submitted, at or before the hearing, it shall be presumed that such agency does not disapprove of the proposed subdivision. A regional planning agency may designate its executive committee to act for it under this section or it may establish a subcommittee for the purpose. The report of such regional planning agency shall be purely advisory.

      (1961, P.A. 547; 1967, P.A. 64, S. 2; 383, S. 2; P.A. 03-177, S. 8.)

      History: 1967 acts required that report be made within 30 rather than 15 days, included subdivisions which "abut" land in two or more municipalities, allowed for possibility of involvement of more than one region or planning agency and substituted "does not disapprove" for "approves"; P.A. 03-177 replaced provision requiring that plan be submitted to the regional planning agency with requirement that notice of such plan be given and required the regional planning agency to submit report at or before the public hearing instead of within 30 days, effective October 1, 2003, and applicable to application filed on or after that date.