By Madeline Ackley Salazar | YourValley
Leaders at the city of Goodyear were apparently “instrumental” in stopping last year’s bipartisan House Bill 2674, aimed at increasing the state’s affordable housing supply by cutting red tape associated with building and permitting.
Government relations manager Ginna Carico briefly mentioned the ill-fated bill during a Monday presentation about Goodyear’s 2023 legislative priorities.
“In this last year, we saw the infamous House Bill 2674, the by-rights zoning bill that all of you were instrumental in killing,” Carico said at the council meeting.
The bill was introduced last February, sponsored by then-state Reps. César Chávez, D-Phoenix, and Steve Kaiser, R-Phoenix.
During the council meeting, Carico revealed the city’s elected officials had reached out to the bill’s Republican co-sponsor Kaiser to express their concerns.
In its original form, the bill would have overridden most cities’ zoning requirements and permitting processes, replacing them with laxer measures. For instance, the bill’s proposed “by-right” zoning would allow property owners to continue with multifamily housing projects as long as they met certain density requirements and height thresholds outlined in the legislation.
