HB 2447
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
House: COM DP 8-1-0-1
HB 2447: self-certification program; administrative review
Sponsor: Representative Carbone, LD 25
House Engrossed
Overview
Requires, rather than allows, a municipality to authorize administrative personnel to
perform specified duties.
History
Current statute requires each municipality's planning agency and governing body to prepare
and adopt, in coordination with the Arizona State Land Department, a comprehensive, long-
range general plan for the development of the municipality. The general plan must include a
statement of community goals and development policies, including maps and plan proposals
(A.R.S. § 9-461.05).
A municipality's legislative body must regulate the subdivision of all lands within its
corporate limits and exercise its authority by ordinance to prescribe: 1) procedures to be
followed in the preparation, submission, review and approval or rejection of all final plats; 2)
standards governing the design of subdivision plats; and 3) minimum requirements and
standards for installation of subdivision streets, sewer and water utilities and improvements
as a condition of final plat approval (A.R.S. § 9-463.01).
Provisions
1. Requires, rather than allows, the legislative body of a city or town to authorize
administrative personnel to review and approve, without a public hearing:
a) site and development plans, land divisions, lot lines and ties and preliminary and final
plats; and
b) design review plans based on objective standards. (Sec. 1)
2. Maintains the ability of the legislative body of a city or town to adopt a self-certification
program allowing registered architects and professional engineers to certify and be
responsible for compliance with all applicable ordinances and construction standards for
projects that the ordinance identifies as being qualified for self-certification. (Sec. 1)
3. Provides a definition for license. (Sec. 1)
4. Contains a delayed effective date of January 1, 2026. (Sec. 2)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note