Arizona legislation · Fifty-seventh Legislature - Second Regular Session (2026)
Arizona HB2375: housing; zoning; historic neighborhoods
Status: In committee, March 24, 2026
HB2375 - housing; zoning; historic neighborhoods
What the bill says
An act amending section 9-462.13, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to housing.
From the introduced text, March 17, 2026:
AN ACT amending section 9-462.13, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to housing. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE) Section 1. Section 9-462.13, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to development; middle housing; applicability; definitions A. On or before January 1, 2026, a municipality with a population of seventy-five thousand persons or more must authorize, by ordinance and incorporate into its development regulations, zoning regulations and other official controls, the development of duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and townhomes as a permitted use on both of the following: 1. All lots zoned for single-family residential use within one mile of the municipality's central business district. 2. At least twenty percent of any new development of more than ten contiguous acres. B. The municipality may not do any of the following: 1. Discourage the development of middle housing through requirements or actions that individually or cumulatively make impracticable the permitting, siting, or construction of middle housing. 2. Restrict middle housing types to less than two floors. 3. Restrict middle housing types to a floor area ratio of less than fifty percent. 4. Set restrictions, permitting or review processes for middle housing that are more restrictive than those for single-family dwellings within the same zone. 5. Require owner occupancy of any structures on the lot. 6. Require any structures to comply with a commercial building code …
Sponsors
- Matt Gress (R, HD-004) · primary sponsor
- Alston, Lela (D, SD-005)
Latest actions
- : Senate read second time
- : Senate read first time
- : Assigned to Rules
- : Assigned to Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency
- : House third reading passed (31 votes)
- : Transmitted to Senate
- : Passed
- : Introduced and first read
- : House read first time
- : Rules: constitutional and in proper form
Votes
- THIRD Passed (March 18, 2026): 31 yea, 24 nay, passed
- RULES C&P (February 23, 2026): 6 yea, 0 nay, passed
- GOV DPA (February 18, 2026): 4 yea, 3 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is HB2375?
- HB2375 is a bill in the Arizona Legislature (Fifty-seventh Legislature - Second Regular Session (2026)): housing; zoning; historic neighborhoods.
- What does HB2375 do?
- In its own words: An act amending section 9-462.13, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to housing.
- What is the status of HB2375?
- In committee as of March 24, 2026. Latest action: Senate read second time (March 25, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB2375?
- Matt Gress (R, HD-004), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB2375?
- On the Arizona Legislature website: https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/84144/?SessionId=130
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