HB 390 – AS INTRODUCED
2007 SESSION
03/05
HOUSE BILL 390
AN ACT relative to review of developments of regional impact.
SPONSORS: Rep. Lasky, Hills 26; Rep. Spang, Straf 7; Rep. Fargo, Straf 4
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill requires regional planning commissions to develop guidelines to assist local land use boards in determining whether a development has potential for regional impact. This bill also requires applicants to pay plan review costs incurred by regional planning commissions.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0626
03/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to review of developments of regional impact.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Review of Applications for Development; Regional Impact; Guidelines. Amend RSA 36:56 to read as follows:
36:56 Review Required.
I. A local land use board, as defined in RSA 672:7, upon receipt of an application for development, shall review it promptly and determine whether or not the development, if approved, reasonably could be construed as having the potential for regional impact. Doubt concerning regional impact shall be resolved in a determination that the development has a potential regional impact.
II. Each regional planning commission shall, with public participation, develop guidelines to assist the local land use boards in its planning region in their determinations whether or not a development has a potential regional impact. The regional planning commission shall update the guidelines every 5 years and provide them to all municipalities in the planning region.
2 Review of Developments of Regional Impact; Procedure; Costs. Amend RSA 36:57, II to read as follows:
II. Within 144 hours of reaching a decision regarding a development of regional impact, the local land use board having jurisdiction shall, by certified mail, furnish the regional planning commission and the affected municipalities with copies of the minutes of the meeting at which the decision was made. The local land use board shall, at the same time, submit an initial set of plans to the regional planning commission, the cost of which shall be borne by the applicant. Reasonable costs incurred for the review of the plans by the regional planning commission shall be paid by the applicant; the local land use board shall collect such payments and forward them to the regional planning commission.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.