Bill Title: Authorizing towns located in populous counties to withdraw from county zoning; requiring certain towns to enact a zoning ordinance and a comprehensive plan; removing plat and certified survey map approval authority from a county if the town in which the subdivision or land is located has withdrawn from county zoning; farmland preservation ordinances of towns that withdraw from county zoning and eligibility in those towns for the farmland preservation tax credit; and prohibiting restrictions on land that is not shoreland or that is not within a floodplain. (FE)

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 14)

Status: (Passed) 2016-03-01 - Published 3-1-2016 [AB563 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Senate: Read a third time and concurred in	2016-02-16	19	13	1	0	33	Passed	Link	View
House	Assembly: Read a third time and passed	2016-02-09	62	35	0	0	97	Passed	Link	View