                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONDITIONAL ZONING; DECLARATION OF LEGISLATIVE POLICY AND FINDINGS; PURPOSE (§
15.2-2296)

It is the general policy of the Commonwealth in accordance with the provisions
of § 15.2-2283 to provide for the orderly development of land, for all
purposes, through zoning and other land development legislation. Frequently,
where competing and incompatible uses conflict, traditional zoning methods and
procedures are inadequate. In these cases, more flexible and adaptable zoning
methods are needed to permit differing land uses and the same time to recognize
effects of change. It is the purpose of §§ 15.2-2296 through 15.2-2300 to
provide a more flexible and adaptable zoning method to cope with situations
found in such zones through conditional zoning, whereby a zoning
reclassification may be allowed subject to certain conditions proffered by the
zoning applicant for the protection of the community that are not generally
applicable to land similarly zoned. The exercise of authority granted pursuant
to §§ 15.2-2296 through 15.2-2302 shall not be construed to limit or restrict
powers otherwise granted to any locality, nor to affect the validity of any
ordinance adopted by any such locality which would be valid without regard to
this section. The provisions of this section and the following six sections
shall not be used for the purpose of discrimination in housing.

HISTORY: 1978, c. 320, § 15.1-491.1; 1997, c. 587.