Bill > S3728

Introduced Session

This bill would require each municipal planning board or board of adjustment to review and consider recommendations that are submitted, by the local environmental commission, on any application for development pending before the respective board, and, to the extent possible, to incorporate those environmental recommendations into the board's decision on the relevant application. While existing law already authorizes a local environmental commission to submit such recommendations to these local boards, in association with each such board's review of development applications submitted thereto, the law does not currently require either type of board to review or consider, or to use, those recommendations in any way. In addition, this bill would require the planning board and the board of adjustment to provide a copy, rather than an informational copy, of every application for development to the environmental commission. The bill would also change the current law to provide that a failure of the planning board or the board of adjustment to provide a copy of the application for development to the environmental commission would invalidate any hearing or proceeding. Current law provides that the failure to provide a copy of application for development would not invalidate any hearing or proceeding.

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Owen Henry (R)*,  Patrick Diegnan (D), 

Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee (on 10/07/2024)

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