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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64498</law_id><section_number>36-51.1</section_number><catch_line>Requirements for &amp;#8220;conservation plan&amp;#8221; generally</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>36-27.2</reference><reference>36-48.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="36">Housing</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Housing Authorities Law</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Redevelopment Projects</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>An <span class="dictionary">authority</span> shall not implement any conservation plan under this <span class="dictionary">law</span> until the governing body of the <span class="dictionary">locality</span> has approved a conservation plan, which provides an outline for the conservation, development or redevelopment of the <span class="dictionary">conservation area</span>, affording maximum opportunity for conservation, rehabilitation or redevelopment by nongovernmental persons or entities consistent with the ends to be achieved, and is sufficiently complete to indicate (i) its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriate land uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities and other public improvements; (ii) any conditions and limitations on acquisition of property; (iii) proposed land uses for the properties to be acquired; (iv) any conditions and limitations, including time limitation, under which property shall be made available for rehabilitation or redevelopment by public enterprise or nongovernmental persons or entities (by sale, lease or retention by the <span class="dictionary">authority</span> itself); (v) standards of design, construction, maintenance, and use of property and other measures to be taken or recommended toward elimination and prevention of blight and deterioration; (vi) the method for the temporary relocation of any persons living in the <span class="dictionary">conservation area</span> who will be displaced in accordance with the plan, as well as the method of providing (unless already available) decent, safe and sanitary dwellings in such <span class="dictionary">city</span> or <span class="dictionary">county</span> substantially equal in number to the number of substandard dwellings to be cleared from the <span class="dictionary">conservation area</span>, at rents within the financial reach of the income groups displaced from such substandard dwellings; (vii) any limitation on the length of time within which project activities can be undertaken; (viii) a procedure for administrative review of the determination at staff level and prior to a final determination by the <span class="dictionary">authority</span> under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Extension of general powers for actions taken pursuant to a conservation plan" href="/36-50.1/">36-50.1</a> that an individual property is in violation of project standards and, therefore, subject to condemnation; and (ix) the procedure by which such conservation plan may be amended.</p></section></text><history>1964, c. 378; 1966, c. 81; 2006, c. 784.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
