Committee considers easing rules for one-time urban growth boundary expansions, but acreage and resource-land changes split stakeholders

House bill 4035 would ease eligibility for SB 1537 UGB expansions by shifting from a 'severely cost-burdened' threshold to a 30% rent-burden standard, clarifying 'undeveloped' tract definitions, allowing narrow resource-land use, and increasing net acreage for large cities from 100 to 170 acres; proponents and conservation groups disagreed on scale and safeguards.