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Committee amends bill to expand specific plans to municipalities and residential uses; amendment on housing language splits vote
Summary
The House Local Government Committee reported House Bill 1532, which would let individual municipalities adopt specific plans for implementing portions of their comprehensive plans and extend specific‑plan authority to residential developments.
At a meeting of the House Local Government Committee, members voted to report House Bill 1532, a measure that would expand the Municipalities Planning Code to allow individual municipalities to adopt “specific plans” and to authorize those plans for both residential and nonresidential developments.
Chairman Freeman said the measure responds to housing‑availability concerns and recalled a recommendation from the state planning board to broaden specific‑plan authority. The bill would authorize a municipality (or a county or multmunicipal comprehensive plan) to adopt a specific plan that implements portions of a…
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