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Staff warns SB 974 could shift approvals and create appeal-pathway conflict for Madison County zoning decisions
Summary
County planning staff briefed the Board of Zoning Appeals on Senate Bill 974 and redlined county ordinance changes; staff said the bill moves some subdivision and site-plan approvals to designated agents and that current language could send appeals to circuit court, creating a conflict with local appeal routes to the BZA.
Madison County planning staff told the Board of Zoning Appeals that Senate Bill 974 will change how some subdivision and site-plan approvals are processed and could increase appeals to county decision bodies and to circuit court.
Alan, county planning staff, said he had redlined the county ordinances to comply with the new state law and that the redlined draft and the bill text were in the planning commission packet. "Approvals of subdivisions and…
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