B.__The comprehensive plan lays out policies and strategies for accommodating most of the community's future growth in designated growth areas.

SUMMARY

This bill outlines how a municipality may adopt a growth rate ordinance. Temporary growth rate ordinances may be enacted only to slow development while a community works toward solving the problems necessitating the growth rate ordinance. An ongoing growth rate ordinance may be enacted only as part of an integrated growth management strategy and also may be used in designated rural areas as a mechanism to guide growth within a community. The bill also clarifies that a municipality with a comprehensive plan may implement a growth rate ordinance that applies only to designated rural areas.