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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83434</law_id><section_number>15.2-2220</section_number><catch_line>Duplicate planning commission authorized for certain local governments</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="15.2">Counties, Cities and Towns</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Powers of Local Government</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="22">Planning, Subdivision of Land and Zoning</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Local Planning Commissions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The Cities of Chesapeake and Hampton may by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> establish a duplicate planning commission solely for the purpose of considering matters arising from the provisions of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Cooperative state-local program" href="/62.1-44.15_67/">62.1-44.15:67</a> et seq.). Sections <a class="law" title="Creation of local planning commissions; participation in planning district commissions or joint local commissions" href="/15.2-2210/">15.2-2210</a> through <a class="law" title="Expenditures; gifts and donations" href="/15.2-2222/">15.2-2222</a> shall apply to the commission, <span class="dictionary">mutatis mutandis</span>.
		The procedure, timing requirements and <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> to the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> set forth in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Plat of proposed subdivision and site plans to be submitted for approval" href="/15.2-2258/">15.2-2258</a> through <a class="law" title="Recorded plats or final site plans to be valid for not less than five years" href="/15.2-2261/">15.2-2261</a> shall apply to the considerations of this commission, <span class="dictionary">mutatis mutandis</span>.
		To distinguish the planning commission authorized by this section from planning commissions required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Creation of local planning commissions; participation in planning district commissions or joint local commissions" href="/15.2-2210/">15.2-2210</a>, the commission established hereunder shall have the words &#x201C;Chesapeake Bay Preservation&#x201D; in its title.
		The <span class="dictionary">governing body</span> of a <span class="dictionary">city</span> that establishes a commission pursuant to this section, in its sole discretion by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, may abolish the duplicate planning commission.</p></section></text><history>1993, c. 738, &#xA7; 15.1-502.1; 1997, c. 587; 2007, c. 813.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
