Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Housing, Building, And Construction, Land Use, Local Government, Local Mandate, Planning And Zoning, Property, Religion
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-13 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; make affordable housing developed by a religious developer a permitted use and require only a ministerial review by a planning unit for compliance with the section; include requirements that an affordable housing development must meet including that it be on property owned by a religious institution prior to January 1, 2026, exclusively contains affordable housing, be less than 24 units and be located only on a parcel in certain zones, and to have obtained all other permits; require a religious institution that does not continue to qualify to seek approval from a planning unit; allow the Kentucky Housing Corporation to advise religious developers regarding affordable housing developments; allow homeless shelters operated by a religious institution to be permitted uses in commercial or business zones.
Sponsors
- M. Pollock (primary), primary
- B. Chester-Burton (primary), primary
- M. Clines (primary), primary
- D. Elliott (primary), primary
- A. Gentry (primary), primary
- D. Grossberg (primary), primary
- K. Moser (primary), primary
- S. Stalker (primary), primary
- P. Stevenson (primary), primary
- J. Watkins (primary), primary
- W. Williams (primary), primary
- S. Witten (primary), primary