Bill Text: AZ SB1563 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transit-oriented development; standards.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-06 - Senate read second time [SB1563 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2024-SB1563-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: transit-oriented development; standards.

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

SB 1563

 

Introduced by

Senators Bravo: Hernandez, Shope;  Representative Ortiz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 9, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 9-461.18; relating to municipal housing.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 9, chapter 4, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 9-461.18, to read:

START_STATUTE9-461.18. Transit-oriented development; standards; applicability; definition

A. Notwithstanding any other law, ordinance or charter provision, on or before January 1, 2025, a municipality with a population of more than five hundred twenty-five thousand persons shall allow by right, in any existing commercial, mixed use or multifamily residentially zoned district within one-half mile of a major transit corridor, the construction of low-income multifamily residential rental property as defined in section 42-13601 with the following development standards:

1. The maximum height limit may not be less than eighty feet.

2. The density limit must allow for density equal to the greatest density in existence within one mile of the project.

B. The municipality may not require a general plan amendment or use permit for construction pursuant to subsection A of this section.

C. This section does not apply to any land in the immediate vicinity of a municipal airport, to any territory in the vicinity of a military airport or ancillary military facility as defined in section 28-8461 or to any area where an existing mobile home park as defined in section 33-1409 may be displaced.

D. For the purposes of this section, "major transit corridor" means a light rail or streetcar stop, a bus rapid transit stop or a freeway. END_STATUTE