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House Bill 369 would let municipalities of any size form land banks
Summary
House Bill 369, sponsored by Chairman Freeman, would remove the minimum population requirement so any municipality — alone or jointly — could form a land bank; municipal associations and the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association told the committee they support the change as a tool to reduce blight and encourage redevelopment.
Chairman Freeman’s House Bill 369 would change the definition of land‑bank jurisdiction to allow municipalities of any size to create land banks and to remove the population threshold that currently requires a jurisdiction to have at least 10,000 residents to establish a land bank.
Committee staff explained the bill would also remove the fewer‑than‑10,000 population requirement for two or more municipalities to jointly form a land bank and…
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