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2011 SESSION
11101100DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 33.1-223.2:21 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 33.1-223.2:21. Noise abatement practices and technologies.
Whenever the Commonwealth Transportation Board or the Department
plan for or undertake any highway construction or improvement project and such
project includes or may include the requirement for the mitigation of traffic
noise impacts, first consideration
should be given to the use of noise reducing design and low noise pavement
materials and techniques in lieu of construction of noise walls or sound
barriers. Landscaping Vegetative
screening, such as the planting of American red cedar trees or other
appropriate conifers,
in such a design would be utilized to act as a visual screen if visual
screening is required.