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Candidate says housing relief begins with cutting taxes and restoring local planning authority
Summary
In a Utah County Republican Party podcast interview, Matt Durant said lawmakers should focus on reducing taxes and regulations to chip away at housing costs and preserve local control over zoning; he criticized PIDs and state mandates that shift decisions away from elected local governments.
Matt Durant, a Republican candidate for Utah House District 64, told the Utah County Republican Party podcast that housing affordability should be addressed through regulatory and tax relief rather than top-down mandates. "If we can do things to help bring it down 1,000 here or 500 there by reducing some regulations, reducing some taxes," he said, "all those little things, they start to add…
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