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Senate moves substitute for RDA reform to third reading, adds one-year moratorium on new RDAs
Summary
Lawmakers substituted and amended Senate Bill 184 to limit redevelopment authority (RDA) practices, add a one‑year moratorium on new RDAs not already in process, and adjust taxing-entity appointment rules for first-class counties; the substitute was adopted and circled on third reading for further amendments.
Senator Bramble moved to delete and substitute first substitute Senate Bill 184, a compromise measure addressing perceived abuses by redevelopment agencies (RDAs). The substitute narrows allowable RDA uses, eliminates the ability to extend or expand RDAs in many cases, bars RDAs from funding certain recreational or stadium projects, and preserves the 20% low-income housing redirection to ensure affordable housing funding remains intact. Bramble said negotiations with the League of Cities and Towns, counties and public‑education representatives produced the substitute language.
An amendment adjusted whom county taxing-entity committees must include in first-class counties, allowing one appointee by the county executive and one by the county legislative body — a change requested by Salt Lake County representatives. The substitute also includes a one-year moratorium on creating new RDAs that are not already underway to give the legislature and local governments time to refine blight and retail-related language.
Senator Hale asked specifically whether the bill would affect funding for affordable housing; Bramble replied that the 20% set-aside to low-income housing was preserved and that the moratorium excludes projects already in progress. The body voted to adopt the substitute and moved it to the third-reading calendar with the intent to circle it and continue negotiations over amendments before final passage.
Next steps: the substitute SB184 is on the third-reading calendar; sponsors plan to circulate additional amendments and allow review time before third-reading consideration.
