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2023 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Local Government

Chair: Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.

Clerk: Gillian Conway, Basit Khan
Staff: Jeff Sharp, Anissa Cottrell
Date of Meeting: February 20, 2023
Time and Place: 9:00 a.m. Senate Room 3, Capitol Ext.

H.B. 1510

Patron: Adams, D.M.

Local incentives for urban green space. Authorizes localities to establish programs to provide regulatory flexibility to encourage the preservation, restoration, or development of urban green space, defined in the bill. The regulatory flexibility may include (i) a reduction in permit fees, or (ii) a streamlined process for the approval of permits.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 5 of Chapter 9 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-977.1, relating to local incentives for urban green space.

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H.B. 1634

Patron: Bulova

Comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience. Encourages localities to consider strategies to address resilience in their comprehensive plans.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2223 of the Code of Virginia, relating to comprehensive plan; strategies to address resilience.

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H.B. 1671

Patron: Wyatt

Residential land development and construction fee transparency; annual report. Requires localities with a population greater than 3,500 to submit an annual report no later than March 1 to the Department of Housing and Community Development containing the total fee revenue collected by the locality over the preceding calendar year in connection with the processing, reviewing, and permitting of applications for residential land development and construction activities. The bill requires the report to be submitted by the locality in accordance with any guidelines and forms developed by the Department and the Commission on Local Government. The Department shall make the reports available on its website.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-2209.3, relating to residential land development and construction fee transparency; annual report.

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H.B. 1674

Patron: Hodges

Comprehensive plan; freight corridors. Requires localities, when developing a transportation plan as part of the locality's comprehensive plan, to include freight corridors when designating transportation facilities that support the planned development of the locality.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2223 of the Code of Virginia, relating to comprehensive plan; freight corridors.

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H.B. 1678

Patron: Ransone

Charter; Town of White Stone. Updates the charter for the Town of White Stone in Lancaster County to reflect the shift from May to November municipal elections.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 4, as amended, of Chapter 96 of the Acts of Assembly of 1973, which provided a charter for the Town of White Stone in Lancaster County, relating to time of municipal election.

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H.B. 1964

Patron: Mullin

Charter; City of Newport News; certain advertising requirements. Alters certain advertising requirements related to the disposal of real property of the city's waterworks system by reducing the requirement from four to two weeks, thereby conforming to other city advertising requirements.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 17.05 of Chapter 576 of the Acts of Assembly of 1978, which provided a charter for the City of Newport News, relating to certain advertising requirements; city waterworks.

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H.B. 2005

Patron: Roem

Charter; Town of Haymarket. Updates the charter for the Town of Haymarket in Prince William County to reflect the shift of municipal elections from May to November. Additional changes include (i) updating the town's boundary description, (ii) removing a provision requiring an affirmative vote of a majority of all of the members elected to the town council for approval of certain debts and appropriations, (iii) deleting outdated provisions, and (iv) providing numerous clarifying and technical changes.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 1 of Article II, § 1 of Article III, as amended, § 1 of Article IX, and § 1 of Article XI of Chapter 540 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950 and to repeal § 2 of Article III, § 1 of Article VIII, and § 1 of Article X of Chapter 540 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, which provided a charter for the Town of Haymarket in Prince William County, relating to municipal elections; town council; boundaries; obsolete provisions.

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H.B. 2161

Patron: Williams

Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report. Standardizes the frequency and length of time that notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must be published in newspapers and other print media. The notice provisions included in the bill are organized into the following three groups: (i) publication required one week before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; (ii) publication required two consecutive weeks before the meeting, hearing, or intended action; and (iii) publication required three consecutive weeks before the meeting, hearing, or intended action. In addition, the bill amends provisions related to the content of notices for zoning ordinances and amendments to such ordinances by removing the requirement that such notices contain a descriptive summary of the proposed action and providing that such notices shall include the street address or tax map parcel number of the parcels subject to the action. In cases where the intended action affects more than 25 parcels, the notice must also include the approximate acreage subject to the intended action. The bill also removes the requirement that notices of proposed amendments to a zoning map state the general usage and density range of the proposed amendment and the general usage density set forth in the applicable part of the comprehensive plan. The bill directs the Virginia Code Commission to convene a work group to continue review of the notice requirements throughout the Code of Virginia and requires the Virginia Code Commission to submit a report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology summarizing the work and any recommendations of the work group by November 30, 2023. This bill is a recommendation of the Code Commission.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 15.2-202, 15.2-619, 15.2-716, 15.2-749, 15.2-958.3, 15.2-958.6, 15.2-1236, 15.2-1301, 15.2-1427, 15.2-1702, 15.2-1703, 15.2-2108.7, 15.2-2204, 15.2-2285, 15.2-2400, 15.2-2401, 15.2-2606, 15.2-2653, 15.2-3401, 15.2-3600, 15.2-4309, 15.2-4906, 15.2-5104, 15.2-5136, 15.2-5156, 15.2-5431.25, 15.2-5602, 15.2-5702, 15.2-5711, 15.2-5806, 15.2-7502, 21-114, 21-117.1, 21-118, 21-146, 21-229, 21-377, 21-393, 21-420, 22.1-29.1, 22.1-37, 22.1-79, 22.1-92, 28.2-1302, 33.2-331, 33.2-723, 33.2-909, 33.2-2001, 33.2-2101, 33.2-2103, 33.2-2701, 36-23, 36-44, 58.1-3108, 58.1-3245.2, 58.1-3245.8, 58.1-3256, 58.1-3321, 58.1-3378, 58.1-3651, 58.1-3975, 62.1-44.15:33, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, and 62.1-44.15:65, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report.

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H.B. 2403

Patron: O'Quinn

Smyth-Washington Regional Industrial Facilities Authority; dissolution. Dissolves the Smyth-Washington Regional Industrial Facilities Authority upon the request of the Authority's board of directors and satisfaction of the statutory requirements for the dissolution of regional industrial facilities authorities.

A BILL to dissolve the Smyth-Washington Regional Industrial Facilities Authority.

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H.B. 2433

Patron: Avoli

Economic development authorities; appointments; Essex County. Allows the board of supervisors of Essex County to appoint one employee of the locality to the Economic Development Authority of the County of Essex.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-4904 of the Code of Virginia, relating to economic development authorities; appointments; Essex County.

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