Utah House takes up amendments to subdivision notice law, sets Oct. 1 effective date for county standards

Representative Kurt Webb presented amendments to House Bill 1,001 on the House floor that would revise notice requirements for subdivision deeds and set an effective date to allow counties time to adopt standards.

Webb said the measure follows the veto of House Bill 156 and subsequent talks with the governor's office. "They agreed that if we could solve their concerns, they would put the bill on the call and that's what we have here is House Bill 1,001," Webb said.

According to Webb, the changes include two principal elements. First, the notice that must be filed with the deed "now must include the 100 acres" associated with the lot; the transcript contains a redaction or unclear language at that point and the specific statutory phrasing is not recorded in the transcript. Second, Webb said the bill gives counties an opportunity to prepare "reasonable standards of access, health and safety." He added the bill carries an effective date of Oct. 1, 2009 "that gives them the opportunity to do that to make sure that they are available to the public."

After brief discussion, the presiding officer noted there were no further lights and Webb waived summation. The presiding officer then announced that voting would be opened on the subdivision approval amendments to House Bill 1,001. The transcript does not include a recorded vote or final outcome.

The measure was presented as an attempt to address concerns raised after a prior veto and to align county-level standards with the amended notice requirement. Specific statutory language for the notice requirement and any potential county standards are not included in the transcript and would need to be reviewed in the bill text for precise wording.

Next steps: voting was opened on the House floor; the transcript does not record whether the amendments passed on the floor vote.