SB 5725-S - DIGEST
(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 3/01/17)

Requires certain cities, that permit, construct, or operate a public facility in a neighborhood with a high poverty level and a high rate of ethnic diversity, to: (1) Assume the responsibility for the negative impacts that facility has had or might have on the surrounding neighborhood;

(2) Consider the potential or actual disparate racial, social, and economic impacts of the public facility on residents nearby; and

(3) Develop a mitigation plan, which keeps the residents of the impacted neighborhood whole for the costs of the mitigation strategy.