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Its members who are also members of an agency, as to the status and progress of the work of such agency, and if the commission deems that such reports are of concern to them, shall fully inform its component governments, committees, and the Commonwealth Transportation Board with respect thereto, as a means of developing the informed views requisite for sound policy-making; and\n\t\t\tb. Its members, technical and other committees, members of the governing bodies of the component governments, and consultants, presenting and analyzing studies and data on matters affecting the making of policies and decisions on a transportation plan and the implementation thereof.3\n\nThe objective of the procedures specified in this section is to develop agreement, based on the best available information, among the district commission, the governing bodies of the component governments, the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and an interstate agency with respect to the various factors that affect the making of policies and decisions relating to a transportation plan and the implementation thereof. If any material disagreements occur in the planning process with respect to objectives and goals, the evaluation of basic data, or the selection of criteria and standards to be applied in the planning process, the commission shall exert its best efforts to bring about agreement and understanding on such matters. The commission may hold hearings in an effort to resolve any such basic controversies.4\n\nBefore a transportation plan is adopted, altered, revised, or amended by the commission or by an agency on which it is represented, the commission shall transmit such proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment to the governing bodies of the component governments, to the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and to its technical committees and shall release to the public information with respect thereto. A copy of the proposed transportation plan, amendment, or revision shall be kept at the commission office and shall be available for public inspection. Upon 30 days&#8217; notice, published once a week for two successive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the transportation district, a public hearing shall be held on the proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. The 30 days&#8217; notice period shall begin to run on the first day the notice appears in any such newspaper. The commission shall consider the evidence submitted and statements and comments made at such hearings and, if objections in writing to the whole or any part of the plan are made by the governing body of any component government, or by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, or if the commission considers any written objection made by any other person, group, or organization to be sufficiently significant, the commission shall reconsider the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. If, upon reconsideration, the commission agrees with the objection, then the commission shall make appropriate changes to the proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment and may adopt them without further hearing. If, upon reconsideration, the commission disagrees with the objection, the commission may adopt the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. No facilities shall be located in and no service rendered, however, within any county or city that does not execute an appropriate agreement with the commission or with an interstate agency as provided in &#xA7; 33.2-1922; but in such case, the commission shall determine whether the absence of such an agreement so materially and adversely affects the feasibility of the transportation plan as to require its modification or abandonment.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":268386,"text":"To ensure that the planning process specified in \u00a7 33.2-1928 is effectively and efficiently utilized, the commission shall conform to the following procedures and may prescribe such additional procedures as it deems advisable:","type":"section","prefixes":[""],"prefix":"","entire_prefix":"","prefix_anchor":"","level":1,"next_prefix":"1"},"1":{"id":268387,"text":"Commission meetings shall be held at least monthly and more often in the discretion of the commission, as the proper performance of its duties requires.","type":"section","prefixes":["1"],"prefix":"1","entire_prefix":"1","prefix_anchor":"1","level":1,"prior_prefix":"","next_prefix":"2"},"2":{"id":268388,"text":"At such meetings the commission shall receive and consider reports from:\n\t\t\ta. Its members who are also members of an agency, as to the status and progress of the work of such agency, and if the commission deems that such reports are of concern to them, shall fully inform its component governments, committees, and the Commonwealth Transportation Board with respect thereto, as a means of developing the informed views requisite for sound policy-making; and\n\t\t\tb. Its members, technical and other committees, members of the governing bodies of the component governments, and consultants, presenting and analyzing studies and data on matters affecting the making of policies and decisions on a transportation plan and the implementation thereof.","type":"section","prefixes":["2"],"prefix":"2","entire_prefix":"2","prefix_anchor":"2","level":1,"prior_prefix":"1","next_prefix":"3"},"3":{"id":268389,"text":"The objective of the procedures specified in this section is to develop agreement, based on the best available information, among the district commission, the governing bodies of the component governments, the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and an interstate agency with respect to the various factors that affect the making of policies and decisions relating to a transportation plan and the implementation thereof. If any material disagreements occur in the planning process with respect to objectives and goals, the evaluation of basic data, or the selection of criteria and standards to be applied in the planning process, the commission shall exert its best efforts to bring about agreement and understanding on such matters. The commission may hold hearings in an effort to resolve any such basic controversies.","type":"section","prefixes":["3"],"prefix":"3","entire_prefix":"3","prefix_anchor":"3","level":1,"prior_prefix":"2","next_prefix":"4"},"4":{"id":268390,"text":"Before a transportation plan is adopted, altered, revised, or amended by the commission or by an agency on which it is represented, the commission shall transmit such proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment to the governing bodies of the component governments, to the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and to its technical committees and shall release to the public information with respect thereto. A copy of the proposed transportation plan, amendment, or revision shall be kept at the commission office and shall be available for public inspection. Upon 30 days&#8217; notice, published once a week for two successive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the transportation district, a public hearing shall be held on the proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. The 30 days&#8217; notice period shall begin to run on the first day the notice appears in any such newspaper. The commission shall consider the evidence submitted and statements and comments made at such hearings and, if objections in writing to the whole or any part of the plan are made by the governing body of any component government, or by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, or if the commission considers any written objection made by any other person, group, or organization to be sufficiently significant, the commission shall reconsider the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. If, upon reconsideration, the commission agrees with the objection, then the commission shall make appropriate changes to the proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment and may adopt them without further hearing. If, upon reconsideration, the commission disagrees with the objection, the commission may adopt the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. No facilities shall be located in and no service rendered, however, within any county or city that does not execute an appropriate agreement with the commission or with an interstate agency as provided in &#xA7; 33.2-1922; but in such case, the commission shall determine whether the absence of such an agreement so materially and adversely affects the feasibility of the transportation plan as to require its modification or abandonment.","type":"section","prefixes":["4"],"prefix":"4","entire_prefix":"4","prefix_anchor":"4","level":1,"prior_prefix":"3"}},"ancestry":[{"id":16682,"edition_id":1,"name":"Planning Process and Procedures","identifier":"7","label":"article","depth":4,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12902,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 04:32:28","date_modified":"2026-06-26 04:32:28","permalink":{"id":207091,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":16682,"identifier":"7","token":"33.2\/IV\/19\/7","url":"\/33.2\/IV\/19\/7\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12902,"edition_id":1,"name":"Transportation District Act of 1964","identifier":"19","label":"chapter","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12807,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:44:00","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:44:00","permalink":{"id":206945,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12902,"identifier":"19","token":"33.2\/IV\/19","url":"\/33.2\/IV\/19\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12807,"edition_id":1,"name":"Local and Regional Transportation","identifier":"IV","label":"subtitle","depth":2,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12806,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","permalink":{"id":206943,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12807,"identifier":"IV","token":"33.2\/IV","url":"\/33.2\/IV\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}},{"id":12806,"edition_id":1,"name":"Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems","identifier":"33.2","label":"title","depth":1,"order_by":1,"parent_id":null,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","date_modified":"2026-06-26 03:43:54","permalink":{"id":204785,"object_type":"structure","relational_id":12806,"identifier":"33.2","token":"33.2","url":"\/33.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1}}],"structure_contents":[{"id":79258,"structure_id":16682,"section_number":"33.2-1928","catch_line":"Planning process","url":"\/33.2-1928\/","token":"33.2\/IV\/19\/7\/33.2-1928","metadata":false},{"id":74668,"structure_id":16682,"section_number":"33.2-1929","catch_line":"Procedures","url":"\/33.2-1929\/","token":"33.2\/IV\/19\/7\/33.2-1929","metadata":false}],"previous_section":{"id":79258,"structure_id":16682,"section_number":"33.2-1928","catch_line":"Planning process","url":"\/33.2-1928\/","token":"33.2\/IV\/19\/7\/33.2-1928","metadata":false},"metadata":false,"official_url":"https:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/33.2-1929\/","history_text":"<p>This law was first created in 1964. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 631 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 1964 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 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 1997, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?971+ful+CHAP0587\">587<\/a>; in 2014, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?141+ful+CHAP0805\">805<\/a>; in 2015, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?151+ful+CHAP0256\">256<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":82445,"section_number":"33.2-1915","catch_line":"Powers and functions generally","order_by":null,"url":"\/33.2-1915\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":82083,"section_number":"33.2-1922","catch_line":"Contracts and payment thereof","order_by":null,"url":"\/33.2-1922\/"},{"id":79258,"section_number":"33.2-1928","catch_line":"Planning process","order_by":null,"url":"\/33.2-1928\/"}],"permalink":{"id":207097,"object_type":"law","relational_id":74668,"identifier":"33.2-1929","token":"33.2\/IV\/19\/7\/33.2-1929","url":"\/33.2-1929\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/33.2-1929\/","token":"33.2\/IV\/19\/7\/33.2-1929","dublin_core":{"Title":"Procedures","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 33.2-1929","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>To ensure that the planning process specified in \u00a7&nbsp;<a class=\"law\" title=\"Planning process\" href=\"\/33.2-1928\/\">33.2-1928<\/a> is effectively and efficiently utilized, the <span class=\"dictionary\">commission<\/span> shall conform to the following procedures and may prescribe such additional procedures as it deems advisable:<\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"1\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">1.<\/span> <span class=\"dictionary\">Commission<\/span> meetings shall be held at least monthly and more often in the discretion of the <span class=\"dictionary\">commission<\/span>, as the proper performance of its duties requires. <a id=\"paragraph-268387\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/33.2-1929\/#1\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"2\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">2.<\/span> At such meetings the <span class=\"dictionary\">commission<\/span> shall receive and consider reports from:\n\t\t\ta. Its members who are also members of an agency, as to the status and progress of the work of <span class=\"dictionary\">such agency<\/span>, and if the <span class=\"dictionary\">commission<\/span> deems that such reports are of concern to them, shall fully inform its <span class=\"dictionary\">component governments<\/span>, committees, and the Commonwealth Transportation <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> with respect thereto, as a means of developing the informed views requisite for sound policy-making; and\n\t\t\tb. Its members, technical and other committees, members of the <span class=\"dictionary\">governing bodies<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">component governments<\/span>, and consultants, presenting and analyzing studies and data on matters affecting the making of policies and decisions on a transportation plan and the implementation thereof. <a id=\"paragraph-268388\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/33.2-1929\/#2\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"3\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">3.<\/span> The objective of the procedures specified in this section is to develop agreement, based on the best available information, among the <span class=\"dictionary\">district commission<\/span>, the <span class=\"dictionary\">governing bodies<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">component governments<\/span>, the Commonwealth Transportation <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>, and an interstate agency with respect to the various factors that affect the making of policies and decisions relating to a transportation plan and the implementation thereof. If any <span class=\"dictionary\">material<\/span> disagreements occur in the planning process with respect to objectives and goals, the evaluation of basic data, or the selection of criteria and standards to be applied in the planning process, the commission shall exert its best efforts to bring about agreement and understanding on such matters. The commission may hold <span class=\"dictionary\">hearings<\/span> in an effort to resolve any such basic controversies. <a id=\"paragraph-268389\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/33.2-1929\/#3\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"4\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">4.<\/span> Before a transportation plan is adopted, altered, revised, or amended by the commission or by an agency on which it is represented, the commission shall transmit such proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment to the <span class=\"dictionary\">governing bodies<\/span> of the <span class=\"dictionary\">component governments<\/span>, to the Commonwealth Transportation <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>, and to its technical committees and shall release to the public information with respect thereto. A copy of the proposed transportation plan, amendment, or revision shall be kept at the commission office and shall be available for public inspection. Upon 30 days&#8217; notice, published once a week for two successive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the transportation district, a public <span class=\"dictionary\">hearing<\/span> shall be held on the proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. The 30 days&#8217; notice period shall begin to run on the first day the notice appears in any such newspaper. The commission shall consider the <span class=\"dictionary\">evidence<\/span> submitted and statements and comments made at such <span class=\"dictionary\">hearings<\/span> and, if objections in writing to the whole or any part of the plan are made by the governing body of any component government, or by the Commonwealth Transportation <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>, or if the commission considers any written objection made by any other <span class=\"dictionary\">person<\/span>, group, or organization to be sufficiently significant, the commission shall reconsider the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. If, upon reconsideration, the commission agrees with the objection, then the commission shall make appropriate changes to the proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment and may adopt them without further <span class=\"dictionary\">hearing<\/span>. If, upon reconsideration, the commission disagrees with the objection, the commission may adopt the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. No <span class=\"dictionary\">facilities<\/span> shall be located in and no service rendered, however, within any county or city that does not execute an appropriate agreement with the commission or with an interstate agency as provided in &#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Contracts and payment thereof\" href=\"\/33.2-1922\/\">33.2-1922<\/a>; but in such case, the commission shall determine whether the absence of such an agreement so materially and adversely affects the feasibility of the transportation plan as to require its modification or abandonment. <a id=\"paragraph-268390\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/33.2-1929\/#4\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nPROCEDURES (\u00a7 33.2-1929)\n\nTo ensure that the planning process specified in \u00a7 33.2-1928 is effectively and\nefficiently utilized, the commission shall conform to the following procedures\nand may prescribe such additional procedures as it deems advisable:\n\n1. Commission meetings shall be held at least monthly and more often in the\ndiscretion of the commission, as the proper performance of its duties requires.\n\n2. At such meetings the commission shall receive and consider reports from:\n\t\t\ta. Its members who are also members of an agency, as to the status and\nprogress of the work of such agency, and if the commission deems that such\nreports are of concern to them, shall fully inform its component governments,\ncommittees, and the Commonwealth Transportation Board with respect thereto, as a\nmeans of developing the informed views requisite for sound policy-making; and\n\t\t\tb. Its members, technical and other committees, members of the governing\nbodies of the component governments, and consultants, presenting and analyzing\nstudies and data on matters affecting the making of policies and decisions on a\ntransportation plan and the implementation thereof.\n\n3. The objective of the procedures specified in this section is to develop\nagreement, based on the best available information, among the district\ncommission, the governing bodies of the component governments, the Commonwealth\nTransportation Board, and an interstate agency with respect to the various\nfactors that affect the making of policies and decisions relating to a\ntransportation plan and the implementation thereof. If any material\ndisagreements occur in the planning process with respect to objectives and\ngoals, the evaluation of basic data, or the selection of criteria and standards\nto be applied in the planning process, the commission shall exert its best\nefforts to bring about agreement and understanding on such matters. The\ncommission may hold hearings in an effort to resolve any such basic\ncontroversies.\n\n4. Before a transportation plan is adopted, altered, revised, or amended by the\ncommission or by an agency on which it is represented, the commission shall\ntransmit such proposed plan, alteration, revision, or amendment to the governing\nbodies of the component governments, to the Commonwealth Transportation Board,\nand to its technical committees and shall release to the public information with\nrespect thereto. A copy of the proposed transportation plan, amendment, or\nrevision shall be kept at the commission office and shall be available for\npublic inspection. Upon 30 days&#8217; notice, published once a week for two\nsuccessive weeks in one or more newspapers of general circulation within the\ntransportation district, a public hearing shall be held on the proposed plan,\nalteration, revision, or amendment. The 30 days&#8217; notice period shall begin\nto run on the first day the notice appears in any such newspaper. The commission\nshall consider the evidence submitted and statements and comments made at such\nhearings and, if objections in writing to the whole or any part of the plan are\nmade by the governing body of any component government, or by the Commonwealth\nTransportation Board, or if the commission considers any written objection made\nby any other person, group, or organization to be sufficiently significant, the\ncommission shall reconsider the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. If,\nupon reconsideration, the commission agrees with the objection, then the\ncommission shall make appropriate changes to the proposed plan, alteration,\nrevision, or amendment and may adopt them without further hearing. If, upon\nreconsideration, the commission disagrees with the objection, the commission may\nadopt the plan, alteration, revision, or amendment. No facilities shall be\nlocated in and no service rendered, however, within any county or city that does\nnot execute an appropriate agreement with the commission or with an interstate\nagency as provided in &#xA7; 33.2-1922; but in such case, the commission shall\ndetermine whether the absence of such an agreement so materially and adversely\naffects the feasibility of the transportation plan as to require its\nmodification or abandonment.\n\nHISTORY: 1964, c. 631, \u00a7 15.1-1366; 1997, c. 587, \u00a7 15.1-4528; 2014, c. 805;\n2015, c. 256.","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}}