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Senate reviews sweeping municipal land-use amendments to streamline lot and boundary adjustments
Summary
Senate debate on SB117 focused on clarifying planning and zoning procedures: the bill would let legislative bodies approve certain lot-line and boundary adjustments without full subdivision procedures, set a 45-day notice for plat hearings and bar creation of remnant parcels; senators pressed questions about taxation and local implementation.
Senate Bill 117, a substitute bill described as a follow-up to earlier planning-and-zoning codification, drew substantial floor debate as senators examined how the bill would change local land-use processes.
Sponsor Sen. Lane Beatty told the Senate the bill mostly consolidates existing planning and zoning law for cities and counties and adds technical clarifications intended to streamline local…
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