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Committee hears DLCD technical fixes to recent housing laws, including tribal grant authority and inclusive language change
Summary
House Committee on Housing and Homelessness Chair Marsh opened public testimony Feb. 5 on House Bill 2347, a package of technical fixes from the Department of Land Conservation and Development intended to clarify implementation steps for housing laws passed in recent sessions.
House Committee on Housing and Homelessness Chair Marsh opened public testimony Feb. 5 on House Bill 2347, a package of technical fixes from the Department of Land Conservation and Development intended to clarify implementation steps for housing laws passed in recent sessions.
The bill, presented by Aurora Jettl, legislative and policy analyst for DLCD, would authorize DLCD to provide technical assistance and housing planning grants to federally recognized Indian tribes, allow metro counties to opt into intergovernmental agreements on urbanizable lands, let DLCD set administrative deadlines for certain city data submittals, clarify rules about prefabricated middle housing, and change statutory wording from "single family/multi family" to "single unit/multi unit" dwellings in land-use statutes.
The measures are described by DLCD staff as technical clarifications rather than program expansions. "This bill makes a few technical amendments... it clarifies that…
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