HB 132-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0091
11/04
HOUSE BILL 132-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to acreage required to build certain single family housing.
SPONSORS: Rep. Yokela, Rock. 33; Rep. McWilliams, Merr. 27
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits zoning ordinances from requiring certain acreage for certain single family
housing units.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
 HB 132-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED
21-0091
11/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT relative to acreage required to build certain single family housing.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 1 Zoning; Grant of Power; Single Family Housing Acreage. Amend RSA 674:16, I(b) to read as
2 follows:
3 (b) Lot sizes, the percentage of a lot that may be occupied, and the size of yards, courts
4 and other open spaces, provided that no ordinance shall require more than a one half acre
5 lot for single family housing where such housing does not use a well for its water source
6 and does not disperse liquid from a black water septic tank into the ground of the lot;
7 2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 674:16
latest version: 674:16