A bill loosening regulations on developing private shoreline property is on its way to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk.

The Assembly quickly passed the bill Thursday, following the Senate’s approval Tuesday, diminishing state and local oversight over privately held land along shorelines.

The bill prohibits local governments from enacting shoreline development moratoriums and restricting any sale or transfer of shoreline property that could be developed or is currently developed.

It also prohibits local regulation of the maintenance, repair, replacement, restoration, rebuilding or remodeling of all or any part of a structure located in the shoreland setback area that was located there before July 13, 2015. The bill directs courts to give decisions by the Department of Natural Resources no deference when reviewing whether a property owner can develop his or her land.

The shoreline development bill would prohibit the DNR from preventing a shoreland owner from “impairing the interest of a landowner in shoreline property by regulating an activity.”

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