03/24/2025
Senate Bill 122
Lead Sponsors: Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson
Status: First hearing in Senate Local Government (March 5, 2025)
Description: The bill eliminates the authority for counties and townships to utilize zoning to regulate, in a platted subdivision or in an area consisting of 15 or more contiguous lots, the following:
- Agriculture on lots of less than one acre;
- Buildings or structures incidental to agricultural use on lots between one and five acres by setback building lines, height, and size; and
- Dairy and poultry husbandry on lots between one and five acres where at least 35% of the lots are developed with at least one building, structure, or improvement that is subject to property taxation or is subject to manufactured/mobile home taxation.
CCAO Position: No position (as of March 2025)