Rep. Charlie Kimball introduces H.134 to simplify land-use-change tax and exempt some affordable housing withdrawals

Representative Charlie Kimball, R‑Windsor‑5, told the House Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry Committee that he introduced H.134 to simplify the land‑use‑change tax process and to create an exemption for withdrawals of current‑use land used to develop affordable housing near designated centers.

Kimball said the bill makes two primary changes: it would revert the calculation when part of a parcel is withdrawn so the land‑use‑change tax is computed by prorating the parcel’s known grand‑list value instead of requiring a separate valuation of the subdivided portion; and it would exempt from the tax a portion of a parcel withdrawn to develop affordable housing if the parcel fronts a public road, meets the statutory definition of affordable housing in Title 24, is within a specified distance of a designated downtown, village center, planned growth area, or neighborhood development area, and does not cause fragmentation that undermines the policy goals of current use enrollment.

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