The CCT Subcommittee #2 advanced bills on solar siting, wireless infrastructure, workforce housing, affordable housing by right on faith and nonprofit land, composting, vacant property registration, EDA bonding for affordable housing, tourism districts, and a town charter update, while passing by five bills at patron request and striking one from the docket. The most contested items were HB 711 (solar siting, 7-1) and HB 1279 (by-right affordable housing on faith/nonprofit land, 5-3), with HB 1130 (workforce housing on surplus public property) also passing 7-1.
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Charniele L. Herring argued that local bans and arbitrary project denials are leading to a precipitous decline in project approvals and that failure to reform siting would force Virginia to build seven new natural gas plants and associated pipelines over the next 15 years. Joe Lurch of the Virginia Association of Counties countered by citing the Weldon Cooper UVA database, stating last year was the second most amount of megawatts that counties and cities across the Commonwealth have approved — over 2,000 megawatts — and 16,000 megawatts going back to 2013, arguing counties are already working with developers and approving projects.
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“Our housing shortages did not fall from heaven. It was a product of man. It was designed, it was planned. It was written into law. They drew red lines. They segregated uses. They segregated people, created exclusionary zoning and communities were boxed out. Neighborhoods were erased. People told, you do not belong here. And then we called it order. We put it into our code. We called it character, and we called it property values.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood morning. As a quorum is present, the subcommittee will come to order, the clerk will open the roll, and all members are asked to indicate their presence in the electronic voting system. The clerk will close the roll this morning. We have 16 bills on our docket. Yeah. In an effort to afford patrons more time to perfect their bill language, we have received requests to pass certain bills by for the day. And I'm going to read those numbers aloud. We have House Bill 457, House Bill 1234, House Bill 787, House Bill 778, and House Bill 1212. Move that those go by for the day. Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any objection? The bills are by for the day. Sorry, I don't have my glasses on, but I don't know if viewers who are watching us electronically can see the screen. I just do want to flag. Okay, great. I just want to flag that for you all. Okay. Well, we also are going to strike a bill from the docket at the request of the patron, and that will be House Bill 1214. Patron by delegate Fagans. So moved. That's a recorded vote. 214. 214…
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