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Senate committee advances bill limiting cities' extraterritorial planning authority
Summary
The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee passed House Bill 1510, which would remove cities' automatic planning and regulatory authority beyond their corporate limits, a change supporters framed as restoring property rights and critics warned could weaken subdivision and infrastructure standards.
The Senate City, County & Local Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to pass House Bill 1510, a measure that would remove a city's extraterritorial planning authority beyond its official boundaries.
Supporters said the bill protects private property owners from long-standing planning designations that can encumber land without notice or compensation. "This bill ... basically boils down to property rights for those outside the cities," said Sen. Jim Petty (R.), who described constituents whose land was affected by a long-range road plan and who later discovered the road lay on their property, reducing the land's sale value.
Proponents told the committee the measure does not stop cities from…
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