CHAPTER 93

SB 93 – FINAL VERSION

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2009 SESSION

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SENATE BILL 93

AN ACT relative to the exemption from subsequent local land use regulation where substantial development has begun on an approved plan.

SPONSORS: Sen. Bragdon, Dist 11

COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill allows for additional time to begin substantial development and building for a property subject to an approved subdivision plat or site plan to be exempt from subsequent planning board regulation.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03/11/09 0496s

04/29/09 1406eba

09-0970

10/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to the exemption from subsequent local land use regulation where substantial development has begun on an approved plan.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

93:1 New Paragraph; Local Land Use Planning; Recorded Plans; Four-Year Exemption; Additional Exemption Added. Amend RSA 674:39 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. Notwithstanding the time limits established in paragraph I, every subdivision plat and site plan approved by the planning board on or after January 1, 2007 and prior to July 1, 2009 shall be allowed 36 months after the date of approval to achieve active and substantial development or building as described in subparagraph I(a) and every subdivision plat and site plan approved by the planning board on or after July 1, 2005 and prior to July 1, 2009 shall be allowed 6 years after the date of approval to achieve substantial completion of the improvements as described in paragraph II.

93:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: June 12, 2009

Effective Date: June 12, 2009