Connecticut 50% Rule: Substantial Improvement Explained
Posted by Tim Bray onConnecticut · Flood Zone Renovations
The 50% Rule Isn’t One Rule. That’s Why So Many Renovations Go Sideways.
Three separate rules share the same number. Almost nobody separates them — and in Connecticut, the one that decides your project is written by your town, not the state.
Seaport Advisory · Southeastern Connecticut & Southern Rhode Island
A few days ago a group of us got into it over the 50% rule — the one that says you can only renovate a house in a flood zone so far before the whole building has to come up to current code. Everyone in the room knew the rule. Everyone in the room had a different version of it.
That’s not a knowledge problem. It’s that three separate rules share the same number, and almost nobody…
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