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Chesterfield County 2005 Legislative Program
Legislative Priorities
Strategic Goal: To be exemplary
stewards of public trust
- Support VML/VACo and other local government efforts to correct
adverse effects on local tax collections arising from 2004 changes
to the Personal Property Tax Relief Act
- Protect Cash Proffer Authority - HB2456, HB2479
- Protect local government land use and zoning authority
- Adopt new statutes providing for more positive operation
of private youth group homes - HB2461, HJ685,
SB1304, SB1333, HB2881
Legislative
Requests
Strategic Goal: To be the employer of choice
- Create an additional statutory death benefit of $20,000 as
a token of gratitude for public employees who are killed by hostile
action in foreign countries - HB1793
Strategic Goal: To be the safest and most secure
community compared to similar jurisdictions
- Amend §58.1-3610 of the Code of
Virginia to clarify that volunteer rescue squads who bill for service
under revenue recovery programs retain the local property tax exemption
Strategic Goal: To provide world-class customer
service
- Amend §33.1-23.4 of the Code of Virginia
to allow counties, if they choose, to administer their secondary road
construction funds - SB797
- Amend §33.1-12a of the Code of Virginia to increase
from $2 million to $10 million the maximum contract amounts which
the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner is allowed to delegate
to cities or counties - HB1954
Strategic Goal: To be acknowledged
for extraordinary quality of life
- Grant Impact Fee authority to localities - HB2476, HB2346, HJ682
- Grant localities the authority for Adequate Public Facility
ordinances
- Allow the Board to make appointments to the BZA
- Allow the Board to ration building permits at certain growth
levels
- Eliminate “substantial change in neighborhood” test
for non-vested residentially-zoned property in down-zoning
- Require VDOT participation with local government advance
funding of road improvements - SB985
- Amend the statutes for Community Development Authorities
(CDA) to remove/reduce parcel size limitations, remove $3 million
bond limitation on counties, and allow CDA funds to be used for land
acquisition - HB2381
Support/Oppose
- Support a request by the City of Portsmouth to study the
clustering of group homes - HJ703
- Support extension of existing Enterprise
Zone Authority - SB733, SB735,
HB1952, HB1964,
HB2207, HB2279, SB848
- Support Virginia Metropolitan Circuit Court Clerks’ Association
request to remove statutory sanctions against clerks’ offices
which are unable to process certain transactions within prescribed
time frames
- Support the Virginia Metropolitan Circuit Court Clerks’ Association
in efforts to create a processing fee of approximately $5.00
on the filing of land record transactions
Any questions about this program
should be referred to
Mary Ann Curtin
Director, Intergovernmental Relations
at (804) 748-1486
Legislative Programs 2000-2007
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