| VA | SB1422 | Intro
25% | Zoning violations; appeals; fines. Provides that a zoning ordinance may prescribe an appeal period of less than 30 days but not less than 10 days for a notice of violation involving the storage or disposal of nonagricultural excavation material, wast...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB851 | Intro
25% | Local ordinances for the use of certain rainwater harvesting systems. Provides that existing local ordinances adopted prior to July 1, 2025, governing rainwater harvesting systems, shall continue in force; however, in the event of a conflict between ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1351 | Intro
25% | Affordable housing; religious organizations and other tax-exempt properties. Provides that no local ordinance shall require a special exception, special use permit, conditional use permit, or additional fee to be obtained for the development and cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1313 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1300 | Intro
25% | Charter; Town of Dumfries. Makes numerous amendments to the charter for the Town of Dumfries in Prince William County. Proposed changes (i) broaden the statement of the town's general grant of powers; (ii) provide for a runoff election in the case of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1305 | Intro
25% | Local taxes; zoning; assessments; injunctions; ordinances. Provides that for purposes of real estate subject to a special tax assessment for land preservation by local ordinance, a change to the zoning ordinance shall only be effective following (i) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1267 | Intro
25% | Zoning; enhanced civil penalties; certain residential violations. Allows enhanced civil penalties for zoning violations involving property that is zoned or used for multifamily residential purposes. The bill also requires that for any violation invol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1263 | Intro
25% | Water and sewer connection fees; new residential development. Allows a locality to provide for the full or partial reimbursement of water and sewer connection fees, capital recovery charges, and availability fees remitted by an applicant in connectio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1254 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive plan; environmental justice strategy. Requires cities with populations greater than 20,000 and counties with populations greater than 100,000 to consider, at the next and all subsequent reviews of the comprehensive plan, adopting an env...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1256 | Intro
25% | Counties, cities, and towns; comprehensive plan; accessory dwelling units. Clarifies that the comprehensive plan prepared by a local planning commission and adopted by a local governing body may include the use of accessory dwelling units, defined in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1045 | Intro
25% | Siting of data centers; property classified for industrial use. Requires that any local government land use application for the siting of a data center shall only be approved if such application is for a data center located on property classified by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1114 | Intro
25% | Local regulation of solar facilities; special exceptions. Provides that a ground-mounted solar energy generation facility to be located on property zoned agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional shall be permitted pursuant to various cr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1171 | Intro
25% | Local prohibition or regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1136 | Intro
25% | Local anti-rent gouging authority; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance adopt anti-rent gouging provisions. The bill provides for notice and a public hearing prior to the adoption of such ordinance and specifies that all landlor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB974 | Intro
25% | Subdivision ordinance; plan review by designated agent. Removes planning commission and governing body approval authority for the administrative review process for plats and plans and assigns such authority solely to a designated agent, defined in th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB975 | Intro
25% | Statewide housing targets for localities. Requires localities to increase their total housing stock by at least 7.5 percent over the five-year period beginning January 1, 2026. The bill provides that, in order to meet the 7.5 percent growth target, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1046 | Intro
25% | Data centers; noise abatement. Provides that any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center shall be approved only in accordance with certain notice and noise abatement requirements. The bill provides that resident...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB1087 | Intro
25% | Maintenance of vegetative growth on certain property. Authorizes a locality to require an owner of property that (i) was formerly used as a golf course but where such use has been discontinued and (ii) abuts an area zoned for residential purposes to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-07
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB899 | Intro
25% | Zoning; data centers; water use. Authorizes a locality to include in its zoning ordinance provisions for (i) requiring proposed data center developments to submit water use estimates and (ii) considering water use when making rezoning and special use...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-05
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB839 | Intro
25% | Zoning; by-right multifamily development in areas zoned for commercial use. Requires a locality to provide in its zoning ordinance provisions allowing for the by-right development and construction of multifamily residential uses on all land contained...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-02
[Hearing: Jan 20 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB200 | Intro
25% | Advertisement of legal notices; website. Allows a locality to advertise legal notices on the locality's website instead of, or in addition to, publishing such notices in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB725 | Engross
50% | Counties, cities and towns; powers of local government; conveyance of real property; public hearing requirement. Adds to the list of exemptions from the requirement imposed upon localities to hold a public hearing prior to the disposition of real pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB721 | Intro
25% | 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) prohi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB430 | Intro
25% | Residential development in certain areas; affordable housing. Provides that any type of residential use that is permitted in a locality shall be considered a conforming residential use on any parcel other than parcels zoned for (i) agriculture, (ii) ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | HB1054 | Engross
50% | Maintenance of vegetative growth on certain property. Provides that a locality may require the owner of property that (i) was formerly used as a golf course but where such use has been discontinued and (ii) abuts an area zoned for residential purpose...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB136 | Intro
25% | Prohibition on certain local government appointments. Prohibits a local governing body from appointing a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, or grandparent of a governing body member as a member of any local government board, committee, or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB371 | Intro
25% | Planning districts; King George County. Moves King George County from Planning District 16 (George Washington Regional Commission) to Planning District 17 (Northern Neck Planning District Commission). The bill requires the Department of Housing and C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB612 | Intro
25% | Reduction of local law enforcement budget prohibited; exception. Provides that no local governing body shall approve a budget that will reduce the total funds appropriated for local law-enforcement purposes from the preceding fiscal year except by un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
| VA | SB305 | Intro
25% | Local prohibition or regulation of gas-powered leaf blowers; civil penalty. Provides that any locality may by ordinance prohibit or regulate the use of gas-powered leaf blowers. The bill provides that the ordinance may include provisions for a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-11-19
To Senate Local Government Committee |
