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Bill to bar zoning discrimination against manufactured and factory-built housing draws mixed testimony; sponsor plans amendments
Summary
Senate Bill 252 seeks to prevent zoning that excludes manufactured or factory-built homes; industry groups and housing advocates supported it while the League of Cities and the planning association asked for changes to avoid unintended preferential treatment and to address part-1 citizen-initiated zoning and industrial-zone residential impacts.
Senate Bill 252, sponsored by Senator Dave Fern, would clarify that manufactured, factory-built and modular homes cannot be excluded from zoning solely because of their construction method and would expand access to municipal water and sewer for certain factory-built projects. Fern framed the bill as a response to Montana's housing shortage and argued allowing factory-built and HUD-code homes more clearly in law can support affordable housing development.
Proponents included Stewart Doggett of…
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