HB3159: Urban transportation service districts; created, impact fees.

Chief Patron

Del. Jeff Frederick (R-52)

Status

Bill is Dead

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Summary

Secondary highway system maintenance; creation of urban transportation service districts; impact fees.  Provides for the creation of urban transportation service districts and provides a mechanism whereby counties that resume responsibility for maintaining all or portions of the state secondary highway system within their boundaries before July 1, 2010, will receive an amount equal to the urban allocation per lane mile for the area within the district for purposes of road maintenance. In addition, such locality shall receive an amount equal to the difference between the urban allocation and what VDOT would be spending within the service district if not for the creation of such district. The money received by a locality shall come from a dedicated percentage of the state sales tax collected in the locality. The boundaries of urban transportation service districts are to be agreed upon by both the local governing body of the locality and by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Provision is also made for transferring VDOT equipment and employees to localities that adopt such districts. In addition, localities that establish an urban transportation service district shall have expanded impact fee authority that includes roads, schools and other public facilities. However, such authority may only be exercised in areas outside of urban transportation service districts and on parcels that have previously been rezoned for by-right residential development. Furthermore, localities that have established urban transportation service districts may provide for the denial or modification of an application for rezoning when the existing and future transportation network that will serve the proposed development is inadequate to handle the anticipated transportation impact of the proposed development.

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