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November 10, 2018 I Volume 12 I Issue 21 Zoning Bulletin <br />the bill would provide grant money —under a "competitive block -grant <br />program" —to "suburban" communities that "reexamine and redress" re- <br />strictive zoning law. <br />Source: The Atlantic; www.theatlantic.com <br />CALIFORNIA <br />On September 30, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law As- <br />sembly Bill 2923. The new law gives the Bay Area Rapid Transit District <br />("BART") "land use authority for transit -oriented development on the <br />land it already owns near existing and planned stations." Under the new <br />law, BART is required to, by July 1, 2020, "adopt transit -oriented <br />development zoning standards that establish a streamlined approval pro-. <br />cess with minimum zoning requirements for height, density, and floor <br />area ratio, and the highest maximum parking requirements for each <br />BART station. Affected local jurisdictions would then have two years to <br />update their own land use regulations to conform with BART's <br />standards." <br />Source: JDSUPRA; www.idsuvra.com <br />MICHIGAN <br />State Representative Jason Wentworth has introduced House Bill <br />6063, "which would prohibit municipalities from regulating and <br />prohibiting signage or flags located on or within a building if the signage <br />commemorates anyone who died in the line of duty." The bill was <br />expected to be voted on by the Michigan House of Representatives' <br />Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. If passed out of committee, it <br />would go to the House floor for a vote, and subsequently, if passed there, <br />to the state Senate. <br />Source: MLive.com; wwwmlive.com <br />12 © 2018 Thomson Reuters <br />