Sec.22-26gg-1a. Definitions

Any words, terms or phrases used in these regulations shall have the meanings assigned to them in this Section and Chapter 422a of the Connecticut General Statutes.

(a) Applicant means the fee simple owner of agricultural land or a person or entity lawfully empowered to exercise the rights of the fee simple owner.

(b) Project means an application considered for the joint purchase of development rights by the department of agriculture and a municipality.

(c) Agricultural Land Preservation Fund means a fund established by vote of a municipal legislative body for the purpose of purchasing development rights to agricultural lands.

(d) Important farmland soils means soils defined by the United States Department of Agriculture as being of statewide importance for production of food, feed, fiber, and forage crops.

(e) Municipal farmland preservation plan means a plan developed by or for a municipality approved by the legislative body of the municipality that provides qualitative and quantitative information on agricultural lands within the municipality containing goals and methods for preserving all or portions of such agricultural lands.

(f) Area occupied by a residence means single family residential dwellings and any associated on-site septic disposal system, potable well, and any area required for a residential driveway. The total area occupied by a residence shall be the sum of the land areas directly beneath the dwelling, the area occupied by any associated septic disposal system and the areas of land physically between the dwelling, septic disposal system and potable well, the area of the residential driveway, and any noncommercial structures associated with the residence.

(g) Farm roads means unpaved lanes used for access to interior portions of restricted lands by farm machinery for agricultural planting, maintenance and harvesting operations.

(h) Residential driveways means unpaved or paved accesses from public roads to a residential structure located on restricted agricultural lands.

(Effective August 21, 1991)