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Bill would speed minor county zoning text changes; opponents warn of lost process

2768608 · March 25, 2025
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Sen. Forrest Mandeville told the House Local Government Committee that Senate Bill 175 would create a streamlined process for minor county zoning text amendments, shortening the minimum public-notice period for those changes.

Sen. Forrest Mandeville told the House Local Government Committee that Senate Bill 175 is intended to create a quicker statutory process for making amendments to county-administered zoning regulations (part 2 zoning) when the change is limited to text amendments rather than the establishment or rezoning of districts. “There is no process in statute to really amend a zoning code,” Mandeville said. He explained local governments typically rerun the full part 2 zoning process to make small changes, a process that can take several months because of publication and written-comment windows.

Proponents told the committee…

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