SB 263 – AS INTRODUCED
2006 SESSION
05/09
SENATE BILL 263
AN ACT relative to inclusionary zoning and workforce housing.
SPONSORS: Sen. Larsen, Dist 15; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 24; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Rep. Craig, Hills 9
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill permits a municipality to adopt an inclusionary zoning provision that requires certain housing developments to include a percentage of workforce housing. The bill also prohibits municipalities from using unreasonable requirements for inclusionary zoning to prevent the development of housing.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
06-2702
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to inclusionary zoning and workforce housing.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Innovative Land Use Controls; Inclusionary Zoning; Workforce Housing. Amend RSA 674:21, IV(a) to read as follows:
(a) “Inclusionary zoning” means land use control regulations which provide a voluntary incentive or benefit to a property owner in order to induce the property owner to produce housing units which are affordable to persons or families of low and moderate income. Inclusionary zoning includes, but is not limited to, density bonuses, growth control exemptions, and a streamlined application process. A municipality that has adopted a master plan that includes a housing section pursuant to RSA 674:2, III(l) may adopt an inclusionary zoning provision that requires any housing development of a certain size to include a percentage of workforce housing units, as defined in RSA 674:56, III, provided that such percentage shall not exceed 15 percent of the total number of units in the development. Municipalities shall not use unreasonable requirements for inclusionary zoning to prevent the development of housing.
2 Contingency. If SB 190-LOCAL of the 2005 session becomes law, then section 1 of this act shall take effect on January 1, 2007. If SB 190-LOCAL of the 2005 session does not become law, then section 1 of this act shall not take effect.
3 Effective Date.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 2 of this act.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.