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  • Developers will no longer be required to build parking for new homes and new apartments. This is a huge change. Bozeman, Missoula, and Whitefish currently ban new housing that don't add parking spots.

  • Six-story apartment buildings in most commercial zones will become legal.

  • Limits on impact fees that cities charge developers, which increase the cost of construction

This is fucking huge. The governor still must sign the bills.

Thank you to lawmakers for

A. Listening to experts.

B. Working together

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[โ€“] SanctimoniousApe 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some of these seem like they could be blatant gifts to developers (depending upon the specifics), and potentially likely to be regretted in the long run. I haven't the time to parse the legalese, but the ones limiting construction defect litigation, and fees associated with infrastructure projects directly linked to proposed developments seem like potentially bad ideas. The former could also be problematic when combined with allowing single stair(case) residential buildings. There are also some other slightly iffy things, but those are the ones that immediately pinged my "danger" radar. Again, the devil may be in the details - which I admittedly haven't the patience to read through right now.

[โ€“] stormeuh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah this sounds like something cooked up by the abundance "movement", who insist the solution to the housing problem is removing regulations. It's clearly an effort by moneyed interests, to misdirect the appetite for economic populism which exists in the Democratic party.