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Lawmakers consider bill to require "clear and objective" residential development standards
Summary
Senate Bill 5,613 would require the Department of Commerce to convene stakeholders and produce model clear-and-objective residential development standards and give jurisdictions until Jan. 1, 2029, to adopt clear-and-objective development regulations for residential projects within urban growth areas.
Senate Bill 5,613 was heard by the House Housing Committee on March 20. The bill directs the Department of Commerce to create a stakeholder work group to analyze development regulations that create barriers to housing, produce a model code of clear-and-objective standards for residential development, and require fully planning cities and counties to adopt only clear-and-objective regulations for residential development within urban growth areas by January 1, 2029, or face a statutory cause of action.
Sponsor Senator Jesse Solomon described the intent as reducing permit uncertainty caused by subjective or inconsistent development regulations: "What we are often faced with when people…
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