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The bill to nowhere? (access required)

Brawley wants cities to stop restricting designs, but that effort has failed before

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: March 22, 2013
Time posted: 10:04 am
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Homebuilders warming up their shouts of “Free at last, free at last!” to hail the passage of two bills in the North Carolina General Assembly should stop, call their lawyers and consult their dictionaries first. The bills – House Bill 150 and Senate Bill 139 – aim to curtail local governments’ imposing of non-structural aesthetic building codes on builders of one- and two-family houses. By the wide majority of 98-18, the House passed its version this week, and the nearly identical Senate bill appears poised for equally easy passage.


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