This document includes Senate 3rd Reading Floor Amendments incorporated into the bill on Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:33 PM by lpoole.
Senator J. Stuart Adams proposes the following substitute bill:


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LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT AMENDMENTS

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2016 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Brad R. Wilson

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Senate Sponsor: J. Stuart Adams

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7     LONG TITLE
8     General Description:
9          This bill modifies the Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act.
10     Highlighted Provisions:
11          This bill:
12          ▸     addresses the process by which a municipality may create a local historic district or
13     area.
14     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
15          None
16     Other Special Clauses:
17          None
18     Utah Code Sections Affected:
19     AMENDS:
20          10-9a-503, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2012, Chapter 195
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22     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
23          Section 1. Section 10-9a-503 is amended to read:
24          10-9a-503. Land use ordinance or zoning map amendments -- Historic district or
25     area.
26          (1) The legislative body may amend:
27          (a) the number, shape, boundaries, or area of any zoning district;
28          (b) any regulation of or within the zoning district; or
29          (c) any other provision of a land use ordinance.
30          (2) The legislative body may not make any amendment authorized by this section
31     unless the amendment was proposed by the planning commission or was first submitted to the
32     planning commission for its recommendation.
33          (3) The legislative body shall comply with the procedure specified in Section
34     10-9a-502 in preparing and adopting an amendment to a land use ordinance or a zoning map.
35          [(4) (a) Notwithstanding Subsection (1), on or after May 10, 2011, and before May 14,
36     2013, within an area designated on the National Register of Historic Places that has on or
37     before March 1, 2011, a land use application pending to designate the area as a local historic
38     district or area, the legislative body of a city of the first class in a county of the first class may
39     not:]
40          [(i) establish the local historic district or area;]
41          [(ii) adopt or amend a land use ordinance affecting the area except as provided in
42     Subsection (4)(c); and]
43          [(iii) authorize a demolition permit for more than 75% of the above grade area of any
44     structure on property located within the area.]
45          [(b) A land use application in an area subject to Subsection (4)(a):]
46          [(i) shall be stayed from any further proceedings conducted by the municipality before
47     May 15, 2013; and]
48          [(ii) is not subject to Section 10-9a-509 or 10-9a-509.5.]
49          [(c) The provisions of this Subsection (4) do not apply to an adopted or amended land
50     use ordinance applicable generally throughout a municipality unless the ordinance is enacted to
51     contravene the purpose of this Subsection (4)(a).]
52          (4) (a) As used in this Subsection (4):
53          (i) "Condominium project" means the same as that term is defined in Section 57-8-3.
54          (ii) "Local historic district or area" means a geographically or thematically definable
55     area that contains any combination of buildings, structures, sites, objects, landscape features,
56     archeological sites, or works of art that contribute to the historic preservation goals of a
57     legislative body.
58          (iii) "Unit" means the same as that term is defined in Section 57-8-3.
59          (b) If a municipality provides a process by which one or more residents of the
60     municipality may initiate the creation of a local historic district or area, the process shall
61     require that:
62          (i) more than 33% of the property owners within the boundaries of the proposed local
63     historic district or area agree in writing to the creation of the proposed local historic district or
64     area;
65          (ii) before any property owner agrees to the creation of a proposed local historic district
66     or area under Subsection (4)(b)(i), the municipality prepare and distribute, to each property
67     owner within the boundaries of the proposed local historic district or area, a neutral
68     information pamphlet that:
69          (A) describes the process to create a local historic district or area; and
70          (B) lists the pros and cons of a local historic district or area;
71          (iii) after the property owners satisfy the requirement described in Subsection (4)(b)(i),
72     for each parcel or, if the parcel contains a condominium project, each unit, within the
73     boundaries of the proposed local historic district or area, the municipality provide:
74          (A) a second copy of the neutral information pamphlet described in Subsection
75     (4)(b)(ii); and
76          (B) one public support ballot that, subject to Subsection (4)(c), allows the owner or
77     owners of record to vote in favor of or against the creation of the proposed local historic district
78     or area;
79          (iv) in a vote described in Subsection (4)(b)(iii)(B), Ŝ→ [at least two-thirds of] ←Ŝ the
79a     returned
80     public support ballots Ŝ→ [, representing at least 50% of the parcels and units within the proposed
81     local historic district or area,] that ←Ŝ reflect a vote in favor of the creation of the proposed local
81a     historic
82     district or area Ŝ→ [;] :
82a          (A) equal at least two-thirds of the returned public support ballots; Ŝ→[or] and←Ŝ
82b          (B) represent more than 50% of the parcels and units within the proposed local historic
82c     district or area; ←Ŝ
83          (v) if a local historic district or area proposal fails in a vote described in Subsection
84     (4)(b)(iii)(B), the legislative body may override the vote and create the proposed local historic
85     district or area with an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the legislative body;
86     and
87          (vi) if a local historic district or area proposal fails in a vote described in Subsection
88     (4)(b)(iii)(B) and the legislative body does not override the vote under Subsection (4)(b)(v), a
89     resident may not initiate the creation of a local historic district or area that includes more than
90     50% of the same property as the failed local historic district or area proposal for four years after
91     the day on which the public support ballots for the vote are due.
92          (c) In a vote described in Subsection (4)(b)(iii)(B):
93          (i) a property owner is eligible to vote regardless of whether the property owner is an
94     individual, a private entity, or a public entity;
95          (ii) the municipality shall count no more than one public support ballot for:
96          (A) each parcel within the boundaries of the proposed local historic district or area; or
97          (B) if the parcel contains a condominium project, each unit within the boundaries of
98     the proposed local historic district or area; and
99          (iii) if a parcel or unit has more than one owner of record, the municipality shall count
100     a public support ballot for the parcel or unit only if the public support ballot reflects the vote of
101     the property owners who own at least a 50% interest in the parcel or unit.
102          (d) The requirements described in Ŝ→ [this] ←Ŝ Subsection (4) Ŝ→ (b)(iv) ←Ŝ apply to
102a     the creation of a local
103     historic district or area that is:
104          (i) initiated in accordance with a municipal process described in Subsection (4)(b); and
105          (ii) not complete on or before January 1, 2016.
106          (e) A vote described in Subsection (4)(b)(iii)(B) is not subject to Title 20A, Election
107     Code.