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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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