| This bill is the recommendation of the Joint Study Committee |
| to Study Growth Management. It outlines the parameters within |
| which a municipality may adopt a rate of growth ordinance. |
| Temporary rate of growth ordinances may be enacted only to slow |
| development while a community works toward solving the problems |
| necessitating the rate of growth ordinance. A permanent rate of |
| growth ordinance may be enacted inside a designated growth area |
| only if the ordinance requires that the number of permits issued |
| annually under the rate of growth ordinance be determined |
| according to a formula specified in rules adopted by the State |
| Planning Office. A permanent rate of growth ordinance may be |
| enacted inside a designated rural area only if the ordinance is |
| recommended in the municipality's comprehensive plan as a |
| mechanism for guiding growth and the comprehensive plan lays out |
| policies and strategies for accommodating most of the community's |
| future growth in designated growth areas. |
