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it and another part opposes it or has “no position.”
I congratulate and thank the members of my
Legislative Committee for your many hours of hard
work and your many trips to the HBAV office in
downtown Richmond to achieve that total consensus
on policy and priority.
HBAV members also should be aware that the
HBAV agenda is just one part of our Legislative
Committee’s responsibilities during each legislative
session. The committee also reviews every legislative
bill introduced in each session to determine if it will
help or hurt the home building industry. Once a
consensus is reached, we advise our lobbying team
to support, oppose, amend or monitor each identified
bill. During the 2012 legislative session, the
committee identified 93 such bills and resolutions.
To help the state association continue its success
before the Virginia General Assembly, I encourage
every HBAV member to:
• Get to know your area’s state legislators and
educate them on how a healthy home building
industry can positively impact other businesses
in Virginia,
• Support HBAV Build-PAC, which helps elect
pro-business/pro-housing candidates to the state
legislature and statewide office, and
• Strengthen HBAV’s voice before elected officials
in Virginia by urging every home builder,
remodeler and supplier in your local area to join
your local home building association.
Following is a brief summary of the 2012 HBAV
legislative agenda:
house bill 166, by delegate John
Cosgrove, narrows the instances in which a zoning
administrator may modify certain previously
issued written orders outside a 60-day time period
by deleting the phrase “or other nondiscretionary”
from the provision that currently excludes “clerical
or other nondiscretionary errors” from the 60-day
limitation. Effective July 1, 2012.
hb 170, by delegate John Cosgrove,
provides that in instances in which decisions of a
zoning administrator are reviewed by the governing
body, the governing body’s decision shall be appealable
to the circuit court. Effective July 1, 2012.
hb 326, by delegate Jimmie Massie,
allows a landowner subject to proffered conditions
to apply for amendments to such conditions after
providing notice to the local governing body. This
bill is identical to SB 36. Effective July 1, 2012.
hb 571, by delegate danny Marshall,
extends measures to address the housing crisis. The
sunset date for several measures related to various
land-use approvals, the timing of cash proffer payments
and bonding requirements is extended from
July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2017. The bill also expands
the scope of such measures that will be subject to
the extension to include those measures approved
by Jan. 1, 2011. Effective July 1, 2012.
hb 902, by delegate Randy Minchew,
increases from seven years to 10 years from the date
of recordation of the declaration the time limit in
which a declarant/developer of a condominium must
exercise his rights to expand, contract or convert a
condominium. Effective July 1, 2012.
hb 1253, by delegate barry Knight,
prohibits any locality from accepting certain proffers
purporting to contain a waiver of legal rights against
the locality. The bill deems any such waiver in an
enacted proffer void and severable and protects any
rezoning from challenge on the basis of a profferor’s
alleged violation of such a waiver provision. Effective
April 18, 2012. HBAV
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