Section 197A.NEW - [Newly enacted section not yet numbered] Alternative urban growth boundary land exchange(1) In lieu of amending its urban growth boundary under any other process provided by sections 49 to 59 of this 2024 Act, Metro or a city outside of Metro may amend its urban growth boundary to add one or more sites described in section 51 (1)(a) and (b) of this 2024 Act to the urban growth boundary and to remove one or more tracts of land from the urban growth boundary as provided in this section.(2) The acreage of the added site and removed lands must be roughly equivalent.(3) The removed lands must have been zoned for residential uses.(4) The added site must be zoned for residential uses at the same or greater density than the removed lands.(5)(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection, land may be removed from an urban growth boundary under this section without landowner consent.(b) A landowner may not appeal the removal of the landowner's land from an urban growth boundary under this section unless the landowner agrees to enter into a recorded agreement with Metro or the city in which the landowner would consent to annexation and development of the land within 20 years if the land remains in the urban growth boundary.(6) Review of an exchange of lands made under this section may only be made by:(a) For cities outside of Metro, the county as provided in section 50 (2) of this 2024 Act and by the Department of Land Conservation and Development, subject to judicial review, as provided in section 57 of this 2024 Act; or(b) For Metro, the Department of Land Conservation and Development, subject to judicial review, as provided in section 57 of this 2024 Act.(7) Sections 50 (1)(d) to (g), 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56 of this 2024 Act do not apply to a site addition made under this section.Added by 2024 Ch. 110,§ 58, eff. 6/6/2024.