Week 4 of the legislative session gets underway today. A couple of new bills of interest came out late Friday.

HB327 – Airport Land Use Amendments has been talked about for a while because of conflicts that arise between existing airports that are located in one jurisdiction but owned by another – for example, Salt Lake City owns airports, besides the big SLC International, in West Jordan and Tooele.  The bill makes some modifications to the Airport Zoning Act in state code to try to encourage (a word that is used in the new amendments several times) and accommodate better coordination and cooperation for protection of airports and land use around them.  There have been some conflicts, prompting this bill.

The other bill of interest is HB322 – Public Transit Capital Facilities Modifications.  Here are a couple of new stories from the DesNews and Trib that describe what this bill does.

And Utah Lake continues to stir up lots of churn.  Here’s an opinion piece by a member of the Provo City Council on the current controversies about how to “improve” the lake.  To underline the level of interest in this, the League will be holding a short meeting right after their LPC meeting today at the Capitol about HB232 – Utah Lake Authority, for all those interested in this issue (more and more as time goes on!)