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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 224 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1968 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1995, chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?951+ful+CHAP0732\">732<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?951+ful+CHAP0796\">796<\/a>; in 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":157945,"object_type":"law","relational_id":63747,"identifier":"15.2-4211","token":"15.2\/IV\/42\/15.2-4211","url":"\/15.2-4211\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-4211\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/42\/15.2-4211","dublin_core":{"Title":"Amendment of regional strategic plan","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-4211","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The strategic plan may be amended in the same manner as provided for the original approval and adoption of the plan. 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However, if the planning district\ncommission determines that a proposed amendment has less than districtwide\nsignificance, such amendment may be submitted only to the governing bodies of\nthose localities which the planning district commission determines to be\naffected. The amended strategic plan shall be submitted within thirty days of\namendment to the Department of Housing and Community Development.\n\nHISTORY: 1968, c. 224, \u00a7 15.1-1408; 1995, cc. 732, 796; 1997, c. 587.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}