Vote Smart's Synopsis:

A vote on a bill to Amend municipal zoning to allow multifamily and mixed use development

Highlights:

• Establishes the goals for zoning regulations in Montana including considering fire safety, promoting public safety, promoting public health, promoting the general welfare, and proper sewage disposal (Sec. 1).

• Establishes The municipal governing body must make adequate provisions for air and light quality, the effect on transportation, promotions of compatible urban growth, the suitability of it to its district and whether it conserves the value of the building (Sec. 1).

• Establishes that in census designated cities with populations over 7,000 the municipality must allow for mixed-use development and multi-unit housing on a parcel of land that has authorization from the Municipal sewer and water systems, is located in a commercial zone and other specifications (Sec. 1)

• Establishes that wherever the regulations made under authority of this part require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces;, require a lower height of building or less a fewer number of stories;, require a greater percentage of a lot to be left unoccupied;, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under authority of this part shall govern (Sec. 2).

• Authorizes that wherever the regulations made under authority of this part require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces;, require a lower height of building or less a fewer number of stories;, require a greater percentage of a lot to be left unoccupied;, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under authority of this part shall govern (Sec. 2).

• Authorizes this act to go into effect as soon as it is signed and approved (Sec. 3). 

• Authorizes this act to apply retroactively to municipal zoning regulations on or before the approval of this act (Sec. 4).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

A vote on a bill to Amend municipal zoning to allow multifamily and mixed use development

Highlights:

• Establishes the goals for zoning regulations in Montana including considering fire safety, promoting public safety, promoting public health, promoting the general welfare, and proper sewage disposal (Sec. 1).

• Establishes The municipal governing body must make adequate provisions for air and light quality, the effect on transportation, promotions of compatible urban growth, the suitability of it to its district and whether it conserves the value of the building (Sec. 1).

• Establishes that in census designated cities with populations over 7,000 the municipality must allow for mixed-use development and multi-unit housing on a parcel of land that has authorization from the Municipal sewer and water systems, is located in a commercial zone and other specifications (Sec. 1)

• Establishes that wherever the regulations made under authority of this part require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces;, require a lower height of building or less a fewer number of stories;, require a greater percentage of a lot to be left unoccupied;, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under authority of this part shall govern (Sec. 2).

• Authorizes that wherever the regulations made under authority of this part require a greater width or size of yards, courts, or other open spaces;, require a lower height of building or less a fewer number of stories;, require a greater percentage of a lot to be left unoccupied;, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute or local ordinance or regulation, the provisions of the regulations made under authority of this part shall govern (Sec. 2).

• Authorizes this act to go into effect as soon as it is signed and approved (Sec. 3). 

• Authorizes this act to apply retroactively to municipal zoning regulations on or before the approval of this act (Sec. 4).

Full Bill Text