CCT Subcommittee #3 advanced HB 1122, a housing development vesting-rights bill, to full committee on a 5-0 vote despite environmental opposition, while carrying over four other bills to 2027 and passing by two more, leaving the bulk of the agenda unresolved.
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Trip Pollard of the Southern Environmental Law Center argued that a provision on line 43 of section C1 means that if a project is paused and restarted 40 years later, localities must look back to code from 40 years ago with no time limit, calling it 'a massive problem for the environment.' John McCarthy of the Piedmont Environmental Council corroborated, citing personal awareness of site plans 30 and 40 years old that never were pursued that would theoretically be resuscitated by passage of the bill. David A. Reid did not directly rebut the merits but stated he is committed to working with everyone toward an acceptable solution.
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“Currently the number is somewhere just in rental units that we are short about 200 or 250,000 rental units across the entire commonwealth. And the problem is getting worse by about 10,000 units per year.”
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Sign in to subscribeSubcommittee on county, cities and Towns, Subcommittee number three will come to order. First we will have Delegate Reed. First we'll take attendance and then we'll have Delegate Reed. Can you please open the room? We have corn. Thank you. All right, Delegate reed. Good morning, Mr. Chair. Am I the only one on the docket this morning? I will. All right. Before you is House Bill 1122. And what I'd like to do is just give you a little bit of an overview about this. And this is another one of the bills that you're going to see through throughout the rest of the session that are in some way shape or form or another trying to address the housing shortage in the housing affordability crisis. And what this particular bill is intended to do is to provide more certainty in the development approval and the re review process to ensure that we have a regulatory framework that creates an environment to build more rental and first time homes. I'm going to go back to one of the things that I had talked about before when we were looking at most my first time homebuyer savings program. Currently the…
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