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Mesquite staff brief council on new state housing laws and limits on local control
Summary
City planning staff summarized Senate Bill 15 (small‑lot single‑family rules) and SB 840 (expansion of multifamily by‑right), noted that PDs and development agreements can preserve prior standards, and said staff will prepare text amendments to preserve design controls where legal.
City planning staff briefed the Mesquite City Council on Sept. 15 about two recent state laws affecting local land‑use authority.
Garrett Langford, planning staff, explained that Senate Bill 15 restricts local regulation of small‑lot single‑family subdivisions on qualifying tracts (five acres or more) and sets limits on setbacks, parking, open‑space and other standards for lots under 4,000 square feet. “This applies to cities with populations over 150,000, which includes…
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