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House adopts substitute planning and zoning bill, clarifies official map and hearing rules
Summary
The House adopted a substitute to Senate Bill 8, streamlining planning and zoning rules: uniform notice and public hearing procedures, adding aesthetic and historic preservation as valid purposes for general plans, limiting official maps to proposed streets, and allowing civil penalties for zoning violations. Substitute passed and SB8 was approved by the House.
The House adopted a substitute to Senate Bill 8, a wide‑ranging planning and zoning update, and approved the measure on the floor.
Representative Lyon moved adoption of the substitute and summarized the changes: the bill sets uniform requirements for advertising and holding public hearings for general plans, zoning ordinances and subdivision ordinances; it specifies methods of notification; it adds aesthetic and historic preservation purposes for general plans; limits the use of official maps to proposed streets in communities that had adopted them under prior law; clarifies board of adjustment meetings must comply with open meetings law; and it permits adoption of civil penalties in lieu of criminal penalties for zoning violations.
Representative Lewis questioned the definition of an "official map," asking whether it should also include current streets, to which the sponsor replied the term refers to maps that list proposed streets and is a planning term. After a brief summation and vote the House approved the substitute and passed SB8 (recorded on the floor as 61 affirmative, 5 negative). The bill will be sent back to the Senate for further action.
