HB 1361 - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2226
05/10
HOUSE BILL 1361
AN ACT relative to municipal land use regulation for manufactured housing and subdivisions.
SPONSORS: Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 29; Rep. Baroody, Hills. 39; Rep. Read, Rock. 10; Rep. McConkey, Carr. 8; Rep. Yokela, Rock. 32; Rep. DiLorenzo, Rock. 10; Rep. Wallace, Rock. 8; Rep. Damon, Sull. 8; Rep. Gibbs, Merr. 23; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21
COMMITTEE: Special Committee on Housing
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires municipalities to provide reasonable and realistic opportunities for the siting of manufactured housing parks and subdivisions.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2226
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to municipal land use regulation for manufactured housing and subdivisions.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Local Land Use Planning and Regulatory Powers; Manufactured Housing. Amend RSA 674:32, I to read as follows:
I. Municipalities shall afford reasonable and realistic opportunities for the siting of manufactured housing and manufactured housing parks and subdivisions, and a municipality shall not exclude manufactured housing and manufactured housing parks and subdivisions completely from the municipality by regulation, zoning ordinance or by any other police power. A municipality which adopts land use control measures shall allow, in its sole discretion, manufactured housing to be located on individual lots in most, but not necessarily all, land areas in districts zoned to permit residential uses within the municipality, or in manufactured housing parks and subdivisions [created for the placement of manufactured housing on individually owned lots] in most, but not necessarily all, land areas in districts zoned to permit residential uses within the municipality, or in all 3 types of locations. Manufactured housing located on individual lots shall comply with lot size, frontage requirements, space limitations and other reasonable controls that conventional single family housing in the same district must meet. No special exception or special permit shall be required for manufactured housing located on individual lots or manufactured housing subdivisions unless such special exception or permit is required by the municipality for single family housing located on individual lots or in subdivisions. Municipalities permitting manufactured housing parks shall afford reasonable and realistic opportunities for the development and expansion of manufactured housing parks. In order to provide such realistic opportunities, lot size and overall density requirements for manufactured housing parks shall be reasonable.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.