New Hampshire HB 1349: relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

Bill Text

HB 1349 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-3144

 06/08

HOUSE BILL 1349

AN ACT relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

SPONSORS: Rep. Meuse, Rock. 37; Rep. Mandelbaum, Rock. 21

COMMITTEE: Housing

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ANALYSIS

 This bill exempts municipalities with fewer than 250 residents per square mile from the statutory requirement to permit multi-family residential development on commercially zoned land, regardless of federal rural or urban designations or overlapping area classifications.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

 Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-3144

 06/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT relative to exemptions from multi-family zoning requirements for small or low-density communities.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 1 New Paragraph; Amendment to Zoning Regulations. Amend RSA 674:80 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph: 

 V. A municipality with a population density of less than 250 residents per square mile, as determined by the latest population data from the United States Census Bureau, shall be exempt from this section. This exemption shall apply to municipalities regardless of any designation by the United States Census Bureau of a community being a rural or urban area and by any resulting overlapping of these areas. 

 2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.