By Friday night at midnight, it’ll all be over! Things are swimming along, bills are morphing or dying, and the huge raft of new land use changes that seem so daunting early in the session, well, it’s much less now than we thought. Still, there will be some pretty momentous changes, most of which we’ve at least noted in earlier posts.
First, let’s cut things down to size. We noted that we were following 37 bills this session, which isa lot, but it looks like a goodly share of them will not be enacted. Here’s a list of the bills we’re tracking which look pretty much dead at this point:
H.B. 65 Active Transportation and Canal Trail Amendments – would have encouraged development of trails alongside canals
H.B. 135 County Land Use Amendments – would have rescinded the legislature’s granting of approval last year for a private development in Summit County
H.B. 151 Public Lands Amendments – would have required an inventory of BLM land within municipal boundaries and nearby
H.B. 175 Impact Fees Amendments – would have allowed use of impact fees for fire equipment
H.B. 180 Short-term Rental Amendments – would have made many changes regarding licensing and requirements for short-term rentals
H.B. 195 Land Use Planning Amendments – would have required an assessment of land use actions’ impact on wildlife
H.B. 235 Eminent Domain Amendments – would have allowed eminent domain to be used for the Bonneville Shoreline Trail
H.B. 237 Land Use Authority Amendments – would have prohibited local entities from requiring aesthetic features in developments unless they are expressly set out in land use regulations
H.B. 243 Riparian Amendments – originally would have required a riparian areas element in general plans. Was amended to just allow studies, bill was defeated in House floor vote
H.B. 258 Airport Land Use Amendments – would have required planning and land use regulations around private airports, much as the bill passed last required this for public airports. Defeated in House floor vote
H.B. 306 Residential Housing Amendments – would have required minimum lot sizes and density for, and would have defined, starter homes
H.B. 434 Station Area Plan Amendments – would have required MPO review of proposed station area plans, but defer to local discretion
S.B. 172 Protection Areas Revisions – one of the two mining/gravel pit bills, this one is done. The other bill was modified to require study of the issue
So, these are the bills that are very likely not going to pass this session – 13 of the 37. That leaves us with 24 to follow. We’ll summarize those coming up in a subsequent post, some of which have changed a lot from their originals!
