Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1619

E Relating to housing; redefining building standards for statutory warranty
purposes as the state building code and clarifying certain vendor warranty
statement requirements; expanding the municipal planning policy to providing for
an adequate supply of affordable housing, defining affordable housing; modifying
the governing body voting requirement for adoption or amendment of zoning
ordinances, applying the former vote requirement to the adoption or amendment of
portions of zoning ordinances changing the existing classification of a zoning
district from residential to either commercial or industrial; requiring the
construction codes advisory council to establish a technical advisory group to
study and make recommendations on model development and redevelopment ordinances
for adoption by local jurisdictions to simplify and reduce the cost of
development and redevelopment, specifying advisory group membership requirements
and options, requiring the housing finance agency (HFA), the metropolitan
council and the strategic and long range planning office to provide
administrative support to the advisory group and requiring group findings and
recommendations to the governor and legislature by a certain date, sunset;
repealing the zoning ordinance amendment adoption procedure for first class
cities (ra, ja)