Land development; definitions, solar canopies in surface parking areas, delayed effective date.

Land development; solar canopies in parking areas. Provides that any locality may include in its land development ordinances a provision that requires that an applicant must install a solar canopy over designated surface parking areas. Such provisions shall apply only to nonresidential parking areas with 100 or more new off-street contiguous parking spaces and may require coverage of up to 50 percent of the surface parking area. The bill provides that an ordinance adopted pursuant to this bill s…

Source: OpenStates · fetched April 13, 2026

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  May be required to install solar canopies over new parking areas if they own non-residential properties with 100 or more parking spaces.

  “Provides that any locality may include in its land development ordinances a provision that requires that an applicant must install a solar canopy over designated surface parking areas.”· Land development; solar canopies in parking areas.

  “Such provisions shall apply only to nonresidential parking areas with 100 or more new off-street contiguous parking spaces”· Land development; solar canopies in parking areas.