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Board weighs whether some municipal rules create 'political liability' amid housing debate
Summary
ULCT staff presented two local policy fact patterns — use of a 32‑foot roadway exception as a citywide standard and a city limiting housing to quarter‑acre single‑family lots — and asked the board whether those practices represent political liabilities requiring league action.
League staff presented two fact patterns May 19 to ask whether certain local policies should be labeled political liabilities and how the league should respond.
Fact pattern one concerned several cities that staff said were using a statutory exception intended to allow wider roads when street parking is needed — a "32‑foot road width" exception — as a default citywide standard rather than on a project‑by‑project basis. Jared and other staff noted that in some verified examples the exception had become the…
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