HB 6025 Summary

• Amends the Michigan Planning Enabling Act to change public notice requirements for planning commission ordinances, master plans, and subdivision proceedings based on whether actions occur before or after January 1, 2015.

• For ordinances creating planning commissions adopted before January 1, 2015: requires publication in a newspaper with general circulation; for those adopted after December 31, 2014, requires "tier B public notice" under the Local Government Public Notice Act.

• For master plan public hearings held before January 1, 2015: requires newspaper publication at least 15 days before the hearing; for hearings after December 31, 2014, requires tier B public notice with website posting including the 14 days immediately before the hearing.

• For subdivision ordinance hearings and plat hearings, establishes same notice provisions with January 1, 2015 as the transition date between newspaper publication and tier B public notice requirements under the Local Government Public Notice Act.

• Bill contains an enacting clause requiring that House Bill 5560 be enacted into law for this act to take effect.