A sweeping proposal that would strip larger Arizona cities and towns of the right to set standards for single family home lot and building sizes and bar their ability to set design standards is back with minor changes after Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a similar bill last year.Rep. Leo Biasiucci’s effort to address Arizona’s housing crisis by spurring construction of smaller and cheaper “starter homes” has only one tweak from last year’s version: the exclusion of areas around military airports that Hobbs pointed to as a major issue in her veto letter.But Hobbs cited larger concerns as well, calling the proposal filled with “unexplored, unintended consequences that are of great concern” because they placed such major limits on municipalities’ power to regulate new housing.The proposal from the Lake Havasu City Republican is one of many expected to be debated …
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