NAHB Legal Action Fund grants
NAHB Legal Action Fund grants approved at the Spring Board Meeting will support a variety of litigation with significance to our members nationwide. The NAHB Legal Action Fund was created to help ease the burden on NAHB members and HBAs of pursuing expensive and time-consuming cases that involve nationally significant issues commonly faced by builders and developers. Among the more interesting cases approved for funding by the NAHB Executive Board last month are those involving:
-A builder who is challenging the denial of a property tax exemption for a Low Income Housing Tax Credit project in Texas;
-The Cabarrus County BIA in North Carolina's challenge of a municipality's adequate public facilities ordinance;
-An effort by a member of the HBA of Greater Dallas to de-annex his property from a municipality;
-A challenge brought by a member of the HBA of Washtenaw County in Ann Arbor, Mich., against an excessive sewer and water tap-in fee; and
-A case in which the Memphis Area HBA is supporting a scrap metal ordinance that is being challenged by scrap metal dealers.
The NAHB Legal Action Committee reviews Legal Action Fund applications three times a year in conjunction with scheduled meetings of the NAHB Board of Directors. The deadline for applications for the upcoming Board meeting in Chicago is August 18. Download applications and guidelines from the members-only pages of NAHB's Web site here. Contact: Mary Lynn Huett, x8485. [return to top]
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