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Committee advances parking-focused housing bill that counts two‑car garages as two spaces
Summary
Senate Bill 181, a parking-focused housing affordability measure that counts a two‑car garage as two parking spaces and bars municipalities from requiring garages for deed-restricted owner-occupied affordable housing (while allowing on-site parking requirements), received a unanimous favorable recommendation in committee.
A Utah legislative committee on Wednesday recommended favorably the first substitute of Senate Bill 181, a housing affordability bill focused on parking standards that sponsors and stakeholders described as part of a consensus package from the Commission on Housing Affordability.
Senator Fillmore, sponsor of SB 181, told the committee the bill makes two principal changes: it defines a two‑car garage so that it counts as two parking spaces for land‑use calculations, and it prohibits municipalities…
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