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Housing and transit reinvestment zones (HTRZs) are a tool that allows cities and counties to redirect a portion of future property tax growth from a designated area near transit stations back into that area to fund affordable housing and transit-oriented development. This bill shortens the timeframe for HTRZs proposed at commuter rail stations, reducing the maximum consecutive years a local government can capture that property tax growth from 25 years to 15 years, and shrinking the overall window in which that capture can occur from 45 years to 30 years — matching the terms already in place for zones near light rail and bus rapid transit stations. The bill also removes a previous limit that capped commuter rail HTRZs at no more than three separate tax collection trigger periods within the 45-year window, replacing it with the updated 30-year period and no such cap.