SB 1341 Summary

• Amends county planning and zoning commission requirements, including provisions for regular meetings to occur monthly "when there is new official business to transact" rather than mandatory monthly meetings.

• Modifies rezoning notice and approval procedures for counties with five or more supervisors, requiring a three-fourths board vote only if twenty percent of property owners by area and number file protests.

• Clarifies that dairy operations and replacement heifer/bull raising operations are general agricultural uses exempt from certain industrial zoning restrictions.

• Adds authority for boards of adjustment to review decisions by hearing officers on zoning violations, with judicial review available pursuant to title 12, chapter 7, article 6.

• Extends the deadline for county comprehensive plan readoption or adoption from 2012 to July 1, 2015, and makes conforming amendments to statutes relating to military airport zoning compatibility and construction bidding requirements.