Bill Text: NH HB1263 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizing municipalities to use form-based codes as an alternative zoning regulation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-27 - Died on Table [HB1263 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1263-Introduced.html

HB 1263 - AS INTRODUCED

 

2016 SESSION

16-2230

03/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1263

 

AN ACT authorizing municipalities to use form-based codes as an alternative zoning regulation.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Abramson, Rock. 20

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill authorizes municipalities to use form-based codes as an innovative land use control.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2230

03/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT authorizing municipalities to use form-based codes as an alternative zoning regulation.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Subparagraph; Innovative Land Use Controls; Form-Based Code.  Amend RSA 674:21, I by inserting after subparagraph (o) the following new subparagraph:

(p)  Form-based code.

2  New Subparagraph; Innovative Land Use Controls; Definitions; Form-Based Code.  Amend RSA 674:21, IV by inserting after subparagraph (c) the following new subparagraph:

(d)  "Form-based code" means a land development regulation that fosters predictable results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form, rather than separation of uses, as the organizing principle for the code.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

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