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2024 SESSION
HB 1236 Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, etc.; approval process.
Introduced by: Daniel W. Marshall, III | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Local government actions related to comprehensive plans, local planning commissions, subdivision plats and site plans, and zoning ordinances; approval process. Makes several changes to local government land use approval processes, including (i) prohibiting use of the comprehensive plan as the basis, in whole or in part, for the disapproval of a site plan that is otherwise in conformity with duly adopted standards, ordinances, and statutes and (ii) allowing automatic approval of certain land use applications rather than a right to petition the circuit court, as provided under current law, if a locality does not approve or disapprove the application within the required timeframe. The bill also reduces from 12 months to four months the time within which a locality must initially act upon certain proposed zoning ordinance amendments and requires a locality to act on all such proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance or map that it has previously disapproved within 45 days after an amended proposal has been resubmitted for approval.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24103108D
- 01/10/24 House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 01/23/24 House: Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/01/24 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/24 House: Left in Counties, Cities and Towns