BHB/8/11
Sponsored by Jack Grippo, Cooper O'Connor, Emre Seago of Agathos Classical School
This legislation was filed in the Economic and Community Development category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE YOUTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE |
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| 3 | SECTION I- PURPOSE: |
| 4 | The purpose of this bill ensures that the essential services that are needed to serve new residents |
| 5 | are constructed and available at the same time as the impact of new developments. |
| 6 | SECTION I |
| 7 | The terms in this act will be defined as follows: |
| 8 | Development - the altering of land. |
| 9 | Smart Growth - developments that promote housing and transportation areas near jobs, shops. |
| 10 | And schools supporting local economies and protecting the environment. |
| 11 | Seven Essential Services: 1. Roads 2. Sewer 3. Drinking Water 4. Emergency Response 5. Schools. |
| 12 | 6. Solid Waste pickup 7. Power |
| 13 | Trust Fund- a legal entity that holds funds until an intended recipient is able to receive them. |
| 14 | Level of Services - used to determine how well an essential service is operating. |
| 15 | SECTION II |
| 16 | Developers must ensure that the seven essential services provided are accessible and built during |
| 17 | or prior to the construction of new developments. This ensures that the community can sustain |
| 18 | and is prepared to accommodate the traffic, sewer, drinking water, emergencies, school children, |
| 19 | trash, and electricity usage during and especially after the development is finished. And because |
| 20 | the seven essential services need to be up to date and in place to accommodate the developments |
| 21 | it ensures that the rivers, services, and roads are not overcrowded and polluted. It also ensures |
| 22 | that because there are already laws in place to restrict certain amounts of water intake from |
| 23 | Tennessee rivers, it ensures that there will always be enough water and that the rivers will never |
| 24 | be overused. |
| 25 | SECTION III |
| 26 | Prior to the construction of developments it must be proved that the future developments |
| 27 | positively impact the community in the sense of being deemed as a “smart growth” development. |
| 28 | Meaning that if the development under question does not accommodate or is not supported by any |
| 29 | of the seven services then it should not be deemed as a “smart development”. |
| 30 | SECTION IV |
| 31 | The developers will be expected to fund for the essential services if their developments cause a |
| 32 | new need for these services. The developers will need to pay off the amount of money essential to |
| 33 | the amount dropped in the level of service to the local essential services. These drops in levels of |
| 34 | service will occur as a result of more demand in the nearby essential services caused by the |
| 35 | developments. |
| 36 | SECTION V |
| 37 | All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this are hereby repealed. |
| 38 | SECTION VI |
| 39 | This act shall take effect July 1, 2024, the public welfare requiring it. |
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