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Panel weighs streamlined process for minor county zoning changes in SB 175
Summary
Senate Bill 175 would let counties use a shorter notice-and-hearing process (15 days notice, two weeks newspaper publication) for minor amendments to existing county zoning regulations while preserving the longer process for creating new zoning districts. Supporters said it speeds routine fixes; an opponent cautioned the public process should not be curtailed.
Senator Forrest Mandeville told the committee SB 175 responds to an administrative problem in county-initiated (part 2) zoning: the existing statutory process to amend zoning closely mirrors the lengthy process used to create a new zoning district and can take months. "If you start adding up those days, it takes several months to get through a simple process to amend zoning regulations,"…
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