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Supreme Court lifts lower court hold on two pro-construction housing laws

easures passed by 2023 Montana Legislature in effort to boost housing supply had been challenged by a Bozeman homeowners group.

The Montana Supreme Court has overturned a lower court order temporarily suspending two pro-construction housing laws passed by the 2023 Montana Legislature, ruling last week that the laws can take effect as a challenge brought by a Bozeman-based homeowners coalition is litigated.

The homeowners, organized as Montanans Against Irresponsible Densification, or MAID, challenged the bills and two other housing measures last year, arguing the Legislature's efforts to promote infill development by limiting local zoning restrictions amounted to imposing "top-down 'densification'" that would harm the...

 
 
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