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Senate committee adopts dash‑5 amendment to limit municipal frontage improvement requirements in HB 2658
Summary
The committee adopted a narrowed dash‑5 amendment to House Bill 2658 that bars municipalities (population threshold previously proposed) from conditioning building‑alteration permits on frontage improvements for non‑expanding renovations under $150,000 (adjusted annually); the committee moved the amended bill to the floor with a due‑pass report.
The Senate Committee on Holders on June 17 adopted the dash‑5 amendment to House Bill 2658 and voted to send the amended bill to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation.
Under the dash‑5 amendment, a municipality with a population of 15,000 or greater may not require, as a condition of a building permit to renovate or alter an existing building, that the owner install frontage improvements if all of these are true: the alteration does not increase the building’s square footage or footprint; the cost of the alteration does not exceed $150,000 (to be adjusted annually); and the existing or proposed uses do not change the building’s occupational classification group. The amendment excludes…
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