{"id":10229,"date":"2026-04-22T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:49:20","slug":"hb-1681-will-mass-up-nh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2026\/04\/22\/hb-1681-will-mass-up-nh\/","title":{"rendered":"HB 1681 Will \u201cMass Up\u201d NH"},"content":{"rendered":"

HB1681 is now being heard in the Senate. You think other anti-zoning state mandates have been bad? This bill, if passed, will Mass up NH like no other.<\/p>\n

Rep. Len Turcotte, who has been fighting to preserve local control, was not allowed to give a floor speech in the House on this bill.<\/p>\n

Rep Turcotte reports \u201cThere are three new building structures being proposed to be at first permitted, later mandated, onto every residential lot in our state. Tiny homes, Tiny Homes on Wheels (also know as trailers or mobile homes) and Yurts. YURTS<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n

We only have to look at what has happened to several RSAs regarding zoning over the past couple of years as special interest groups and the few anti-zoning zealots \u201cunbundle zoning regulations\u201d on their way to their promised land of no zoning at all in NH. We had parking requirements for projects reduced three times. We had ever-expanding ADU mandates that started with the word \u201cmay\u201d and are now \u201cshall by right\u201d while expanding quantities on residential lots. And lastly, an amendment to this current legislation, that contained \u201cshall\u201d, was reverted to \u201cmay\u201d.<\/p>\n

Write to the Senate Commerce Committee to vote ITL: Daniel.Innis@gc.nh.gov, Denise.Ricciardi@gc.nh.gov, Keith.Murphy@gc.nh.gov, Donovan.Fenton@gc.nh.gov, Tara.Reardon@gc.nh.gov, Regina.Birdsell@gc.nh.gov, aaron.jones@gc.nh.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HB1681 is now being heard in the Senate. You think other anti-zoning state mandates have been bad? This bill, if passed, will Mass up NH like no other. Rep. Len Turcotte, who has been fighting to preserve local control, was not allowed to give a floor speech in the House on this bill. Rep Turcotte […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,11,20,51,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing","category-legislation","category-property-rights","category-town-government","category-zoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10231,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/10231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}