Northern VA Regional Commission
2016 Legislation
Legislative Profiles
Land Use & Growth Management
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 900 - Stolle - Associate physicians; requirements for licensure, practice agreements. | (H) Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions (S) Committee on Education and Health | (S) Left in Education and Health | 12/02/16 |
| notes: To be Studied by Housing Commission - Requires a locality to include in its zoning ordinances for single-family residential zoning districts accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as defined in the bill, as a permitted accessory use. The bill requires a person to seek a permit for an ADU from the locality, requires the locality to issue such permit if the person meets certain requirements enumerated in the bill, and restricts the fee for such permit to $100 or less. The bill prohibits the locality from requiring (i) dedicated parking for the ADU; (ii) lot sizes or setbacks for the ADU greater than that of the primary dwelling; (iii) consanguinity or affinity between the occupants of the ADU and the primary dwelling; and (iv) redundant water, sewer, or septic capacity for the ADU. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. | |||
| HB 1461 - Dudenhefer - Quantico, Town of; amending charter, removes certain town officers elected by town council. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) | 03/03/17 |
| notes:
Localities may, by ordinance, establish a short-term rental registry and require operators within the locality to register annually. The registration shall be ministerial in nature and shall require the operator to provide (i) the complete name of the operator and, (ii) the address of each property in the locality offered for short-term rental by the operator, and (iii) an attestation that the property owner has granted permission for use of such property as a short-term rental if the operator is a lessee or sublessee. No local ordinance shall prohibit an operator from offering a property as a short-term rental solely on the basis that such operator is a lessee or sublessee, provided that the property owner has granted permission for such property's use as a short-term rental. Localities may enact an ordinance that limits a lessee or sublessee to one short-term rental within the applicable locality. |
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| HB 1486 - Albo - Arts and cultural districts; districts may be created jointly by two or more localities. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns (S) Committee on Local Government | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0373) | 03/13/17 |
| HB 1488 - Albo - Collection of delinquent local taxes; period of delinquency. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Stricken from docket by Finance | 01/30/17 |
| notes: Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must be published. The notice provisions included in the bill are organized into three groups: (i) publication required at least seven days before a meeting, hearing, or intended action; (ii) publication required twice, with the first notice appearing no more than 28 days before and the second notice appearing no less than seven days before a meeting, hearing, or intended action; and (iii) publication required three times, with the first notice appearing no more than 35 days before and the third notice appearing no less than seven days before the meeting, hearing, or intended action. The bill also standardizes descriptive information in such notices related to (a) proposing, amending, or repealing ordinances; (b) local budget adoption; and (c) zoning ordinances and planning-related actions. Senate cognate is SB413. | |||
| SB 200 - Howell - Qualified equity and subordinated debt investments; raises cap on total amount of credits. | (S) Committee on Finance and Appropriations | (S) Left in Finance | 12/02/16 |
| notes: 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. | |||
| SB 365 - Chafin - Prioritization of statewide transportation projects; exceptions. | (S) Committee on Finance and Appropriations | (S) Left in Finance | 12/02/16 |
| notes: Prohibits a person from engaging in any land-disturbing activity until, where Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (VPDES) permit coverage is required, the Virginia Erosion and Sediment Control Program (VESCP) authority has obtained evidence of such permit coverage from the Department of Environmental Quality's online reporting system prior to issuing its land-disturbance approval. Current law requires the VESCP authority to obtain such evidence of VPDES permit coverage prior to approving an erosion and sediment control plan. | |||
