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HB1263: authorizing municipalities to use form-based codes as an alternative zoning regulation.

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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.


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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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