WI AB784

Creates a Multifamily Housing Innovation Council within the Department of Safety and Professional Services, with members appointed to 4-year terms including a building inspector, firefighter, fire chief, fire inspector, sprinkler fitter, engineer, and building code experts

Requires the council to develop a guidebook for designing and constructing multifamily dwellings up to 6 stories with a single stairway, ensuring compliance with National Fire Protection Association standards for safe occupancy and egress

Directs the council to establish a model ordinance allowing local governments to permit multifamily housing on commercially-zoned land

Authorizes counties, cities, villages, and towns to enact ordinances allowing single-stairway multifamily buildings up to 6 stories if consistent with the council's guidebook

Requires monthly council meetings until the guidebook and model ordinance are completed, then annual meetings for review and updates