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Senate committee tweaks S.328 to clarify who counts as 'served' by water and adds update to farm‑housing report
Summary
Members of the Senate Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs committee discussed edits to S.328 that would defer precise service-area definitions to local authorities (including fire districts and other public water providers) and add an updated farm‑housing report; members debated removing prescriptive distance language and preserving some by‑right connection protections.
The Senate Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs committee spent much of its March 26 meeting hashing out amendments to S.328, a housing bill that members said aims to increase housing supply while clarifying where municipal sewer and water infrastructure should allow new connections.
Committee discussion centered on a proposal to remove prescriptive distance measures (for example, 300 or 2,000 feet) from the statute and instead rely on municipal or local determinations of where systems can safely and legally support new connections. A Committee member said municipalities and local regulators “know what their system can handle” and warned that a fixed-distance rule could force repeated ordinance…
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