Bill Text - HB265 (2017)

Relative to accessory dwelling units.


Revision: March 30, 2017, 9:06 a.m.

HB 265 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

8Mar2017... 0420h

2017 SESSION

17-0635

03/05

 

HOUSE BILL 265

 

AN ACT relative to accessory dwelling units.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Matthews, Rock. 3; Rep. Hunt, Ches. 11; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill authorizes a municipality to limit the right to have an accessory dwelling unit for certain single-family dwellings and prohibits condominium conveyance of an accessory dwelling unit.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

8Mar2017... 0420h 17-0635

03/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to accessory dwelling units.

 

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

 

1  Accessory Dwelling Units.  Amend RSA 674:72, I to read as follows:

I.  A municipality that adopts a zoning ordinance pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter shall allow accessory dwelling units as a matter of right or by either conditional use permit pursuant to RSA 674:21 or by special exception, in all zoning districts that permit single-family dwellings.  One accessory dwelling unit shall be allowed without additional requirements for lot size, frontage, space limitations, or other controls beyond what would be required for a single-family dwelling without an accessory dwelling unit.  The municipality is not required to allow more than one accessory dwelling unit for any single-family dwelling.  The municipality may prohibit accessory dwelling units associated with multiple single-family dwellings attached to each other such as townhouses, and with manufactured housing as defined in RSA 674:31.  Subsequent condominium conveyance of any accessory dwelling unit separate from that of the principal dwelling unit shall be prohibited, notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 356-B:5, unless allowed by the municipality.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.