{"id":9539,"date":"2024-04-10T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=9539"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:43:11","slug":"analysis-of-hb-1399","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2024\/04\/10\/analysis-of-hb-1399\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of HB 1399"},"content":{"rendered":"

HB 1399 is being heard by the Senate Commerce Committee.<\/strong>
\nContact the committee to ask them to ITL.<\/p>\n

William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us, Denise.Ricciardi@leg.state.nh.us, Shannon.Chandley@leg.state.nh.us, Donna.Soucy@leg.state.nh.us, Daniel.Innis@leg.state.nh.us, aaron.jones@leg.state.nh.us<\/p>\n

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HB 1399 is “An act allowing municipalities to permit 2 residential units in certain single-family residential zones.”.<\/em><\/p>\n

“A proposed housing development of expanding a single family residence within a residential zone to no more than 2 residential units shall be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or a hearing, if the proposed housing development meets all of the following requirements:”<\/em><\/p>\n

“The planning board shall not impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards that would have the effect of physically precluding the construction of up to 2 units and each being at least 1000 square feet in floor area.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The bill would establish (and planning boards couldn’t oppose) future (proposed) developments of 2 residential units in certain single-family residential zones.<\/p>\n

This bill will override local zoning law and authority by creating a mandate to allow creation of multi-family neighborhoods from currently existing single-family neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

In short, this bill would mandate a retroactive zoning change onto existing homeowners who bought into a (currently) zoned single-family neighborhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reasons to oppose:<\/p>\n

– What NH constitutional article or NH statute gives the General Court authority over Town planning boards regarding local zoning decisions?<\/p>\n

– This will impact the value of property in previously single-family neighborhoods that are now able to be made into multi-family.<\/p>\n

– What recourse exists for owners who invested in a dwelling in a single-family area whose value is diminished (taken?) by a retroactive zoning change?<\/p>\n

– There is no apparent saving of money for current property owners, only for the cost of prospective future development.<\/p>\n

– Housing availability and affordability issues should be handled by the free market through current, or expanded, or new, multi-family developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HB 1399 is being heard by the Senate Commerce Committee. Contact the committee to ask them to ITL. William.Gannon@leg.state.nh.us, Denise.Ricciardi@leg.state.nh.us, Shannon.Chandley@leg.state.nh.us, Donna.Soucy@leg.state.nh.us, Daniel.Innis@leg.state.nh.us, aaron.jones@leg.state.nh.us — HB 1399 is “An act allowing municipalities to permit 2 residential units in certain single-family residential zones.”. “A proposed housing development of expanding a single family residence within a residential […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539","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=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}