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Senate takes up H 687, a sweeping land-use and housing bill; long amendment packet reported
Summary
Senators debated a multi-instance amendment to H 687 (community resilience and biodiversity protection through land use) covering tier designations, jurisdictional opinion requirements, ADUs, housing thresholds and a second-home/property transfer tax proposal; the Senate concurred with the reported amendment package.
The Senate took up H 687 (described in debate as community resilience and biodiversity protection through land use, sometimes referenced as Act 50/housing) under a distributed amendment with numerous instances addressing tiered land-use designations, housing opportunities and tax/finance provisions.
Senator Madison and other reporting senators walked the body through 15 instances of amendment. Key elements discussed included: shifting certain rulemaking to a tier-3 process for some natural-resource areas; removing a mandatory requirement for…
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