Virginia SB 179: Comprehensive plan; solar facilities.

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18103842D

SENATE BILL NO. 179 

Offered January 10, 2018 

Prefiled December 28, 2017 

A BILL to amend and reenact � 15.2-2232 of the Code of 
 Virginia, relating to comprehensive plan; solar facilities. 
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Patron-- Stanley 

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Referred to Committee on Local Government 

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That � 15.2-2232 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted as follows:

� 15.2-2232. Legal status of plan.

A. Whenever a local planning commission recommends a 
 comprehensive plan or part thereof for the locality and such plan has been 
 approved and adopted by the governing body, it shall control the general or 
 approximate location, character and extent of each feature shown on the plan. 
 Thereafter, unless a feature is already shown on the adopted master plan or 
 part thereof or is deemed so under subsection D, no street or connection to an 
 existing street, park or other public area, public building or public 
 structure, public utility facility or public service corporation facility other 
 than a railroad facility or an underground natural gas or underground electric 
 distribution facility of a public utility as defined in subdivision (b) of � 
 56-265.1 within its certificated service territory, whether publicly or 
 privately owned, shall be constructed, established or authorized, unless and 
 until the general location or approximate location, character, and extent 
 thereof has been submitted to and approved by the commission as being 
 substantially in accord with the adopted comprehensive plan or part thereof. In 
 connection with any such determination, the commission may, and at the 
 direction of the governing body shall, hold a public hearing, after notice as 
 required by � 15.2-2204. Following the adoption of the Statewide Transportation 
 Plan by the Commonwealth Transportation Board pursuant to � 33.2-353 and written 
 notification to the affected local governments, each local government through 
 which one or more of the designated corridors of statewide significance 
 traverses, shall, at a minimum, note such corridor or corridors on the 
 transportation plan map included in its comprehensive plan for information 
 purposes at the next regular update of the transportation plan map. Prior to 
 the next regular update of the transportation plan map, the local government 
 shall acknowledge the existence of corridors of statewide significance within 
 its boundaries.

B. The commission shall communicate its findings to the 
 governing body, indicating its approval or disapproval with written reasons 
 therefor. The governing body may overrule the action of the commission by a 
 vote of a majority of its membership. Failure of the commission to act within