                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEDURES (§ 33.2-1929)

To ensure that the planning process specified in § 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:

1. 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.

2. At such meetings the commission shall receive and consider reports from:
			a. 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
			b. 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. 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.

4. 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.

HISTORY: 1964, c. 631, § 15.1-1366; 1997, c. 587, § 15.1-4528; 2014, c. 805;
2015, c. 256.