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2024 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Local Government

Chair: Jeremy S. McPike

Clerk: Gillian Conway,A. Chapman
Staff: Jeff Sharp
Date of Meeting: February 8, 2024
Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. Senate Room B, General Assembly Building
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S.B. 597

Patron: McPike

Affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan. Authorizes any locality in the Commonwealth to provide for an affordable housing dwelling unit program by amending the zoning ordinance of such locality. Current law restricts such authorization to counties with an urban county executive form of government or county manager plan of government and certain other localities. This bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2025.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2304 of the Code of Virginia, relating to affordable housing; local zoning ordinance authority; comprehensive plan.

24103099D

S.B. 697

Patron: VanValkenburg

Solar and energy facilities; local regulation. Requires that any ground-mounted solar or energy storage facility, including any solar facility that is designed to serve, or serves, the electricity or thermal needs of any property other than the property where such facility is located, be permitted as a special exception as allowed by current law for solar photovoltaic projects, provided that such installation is in compliance with any provisions in a local ordinance that establish reasonable criteria and requirements, as defined in the bill, for siting.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2288.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating to solar and energy facilities; local regulation.

24104547D