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HB 7207 — Trust Funds; Growth Management
by the Select Committee on Government Reorganization; and Rep. Aubuchon
This summary is provided for information only and does not represent the opinion of any Senator, Senate Officer, or Senate Office.
Prepared by: Budget Committee (BC)
This bill as filed amended statutes for various trust funds – terminating certain trust funds and providing for revenue sources for a newly created trust fund.
The conference report provides instead for various provisions relating to growth management:
• Makes concurrency for parks and recreation, schools, and transportation facilities optional for local governments.
• Applies and revises the expedited comprehensive plan amendment process statewide.
• Deletes the requirement that comprehensive plans be financially feasible.
• Deletes the twice a year limitation on comprehensive plan amendments.
• Revises the small scale amendment process.
• Specifies that population projections should be a floor for requisite development except for areas of critical state concern.
• Allows additional planning periods for specific parts of the comprehensive plan.
• Abolishes 9J-5 (DCA’s growth management regulations and incorporates certain provisions into the bill).
• Removes many of the state specifications and requirements for optional elements in the comprehensive plan, but allows local governments to continue to include optional elements.
• Expands and revises the optional sector plan process.
• Reduces the requirements of the evaluation and appraisal process.
• Revises the rural land stewardship program.
• Restricts the state’s ability to interpret joint planning agreements.
• Clarifies and broadens the window for permit extensions.
• Creates a 4-year development of regional impact permit extension.
• Removes industrial areas, hotels/motels, and theaters from the list of developments of regional impact.
• Creates an exemption from the DRI process for mining projects and allows those mines to enter into agreements with the Department of Transportation.
• Adds a new 2-year permit extension, but caps the maximum extension at 4 years.
• Prohibits local governments from having referenda for local comprehensive plan amendments.
• Encourages planning innovation technical assistance.
• Sunsets the Century Commission in two years.
• Clarifies requirements for adopting criteria to address compatibility of lands relating to military installations.
• Allows a certain plan amendment to be readopted by a local government without being resubmitted to the state land planning agency.
• Clarifies when a local government can reject a proposed change to a development of regional impact.
• Encourages adaptation strategies.
• Requires DOT to study the proportionate share calculation.
• Allows DCA to have procedural issues on their website.
If approved by the Governor, these provisions take effect upon becoming law.
Vote: Senate 34-5; House 87-31