NEW
ENGLAN
D
U P D A T E
APRIL JLC 1997 NE
Legislative
Roundup
HBAs take it to
the statehouses
As spring legislative sessions
began around New England,
builders found themselves
wrestling with the definition of
river corridors, why statewide
building codes take so long to
amend, when and how property
taxes on new homes are
assessed, and why (in
Connecticut) a nail driven into
one side of a wall might be
taxed while a nail driven into
the other side of the wall isn't.
Here's a rundown of what New
England state Home Builders
Associations (HBAs) have on
their radar this year:
Massachusetts. Last summer,
the state's Rivers Protection Act
established generalized development
restrictions for 200-footwide
riverside corridors, but left
the job of creating specific
guidelines to the Department