                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DECLARATION OF LEGISLATIVE INTENT (§ 15.2-2200)

This chapter is intended to encourage localities to improve the public health,
safety, convenience, and welfare of their citizens and to plan for the future
development of communities to the end that transportation systems be carefully
planned; that new community centers be developed with adequate highway, utility,
health, educational, and recreational facilities; that the need for mineral
resources and the needs of agriculture, industry, and business be recognized in
future growth; that the concerns of military installations be recognized and
taken into account in consideration of future development of areas immediately
surrounding installations and that where practical, installation commanders
shall be consulted on such matters by local officials; that residential areas be
provided with healthy surroundings for family life; that agricultural and
forestal land be preserved; and that the growth of the community be consonant
with the efficient and economical use of public funds.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 15-891.1, 15-900, 15-916, 15-961; 1950, pp. 487, 889;
1956, c. 497; 1962, c. 407, § 15.1-427; 1975, c. 641; 1981, c. 418; 1996, cc.
585, 600; 1997, c. 587; 2013, cc. 149, 213.