Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF3148

E Relating to affordable housing; requiring annual building code reports to the
department of administration to include separate fee totals for single family,
multifamily and accessory dwelling units, defining accessory dwelling unit;
requiring cities over a certain population with housing shortages identified by
the federal department of housing and urban development (HUD) to adopt an
accessory dwelling unit policy by ordinance, authorizing the policies to specify
zoned areas permitting ADUs and to regulate the height, width, lot coverage,
size, setback and parking requirements; authorizing cities to require
conditional or special use permits for ADUs; requiring the housing finance
agency (HFA) to encourage applications for grants or loans to aid in the
construction, rehabilitation or conversion of structures to serve as ADUs for
rental to persons meeting certain income limits, requiring a higher priority to
ADU proposals promoting high energy efficiency; requiring the office of
strategic and long range planning in coordination with the metropolitan council
to develop and make available to local government units model ordinances for ADU
development(ra, ja)