COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - In what some city officials and College Station residents described as a targeted bill on housing regulation, Senate Bill 1567 officially went into effect on September 1.

“I think it’s unfortunate how targeted the bill really was to one community when you’ve got over 130 of them in the state,” said College Station’s Director of Planning and Development Services Anthony Armstrong.

The bill targets residential occupancy overlays (ROOs) that would have limited the number of people who can live in a single-family home to a maximum of two unrelated people.

“You can no longer have any rule in the book related to familial status. We have an item going to Council this week, basically we have to rescind [ROOs]. It’s not allowed to exist, state law into effect Se

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