Virginia House Bill 706 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Counties, Cities and Towns
Pending: House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Trees during development process; conservation and replacement. Changes the timeframe for minimum canopy coverage for all localities from 20 years to 10 years and removes special provisions that had allowed for a timeframe of 10 years for the City of Williamsburg and local ordinances adopted prior to July 1, 1990. The bill provides an additional one-quarter times the canopy area credit for preservation of trees that are taller than 30 feet, thereby increasing the canopy area credit from one and one-quarter to one and one-half. Trees during development process; conservation and replacement. Changes the timeframe for minimum canopy coverage for all localities from 20 years to 10 years and removes special provisions that had allowed for a timeframe of 10 years for the City of Williamsburg and local ordinances adopted prior to July 1, 1990. The bill provides an additional one-quarter times the canopy area credit for preservation of trees that are taller than 30 feet, thereby increasing the canopy area credit from one and one-quarter to one and one-half.

Trees; conservation and replacement during development process.

Del. Mark Keam [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Counties, Cities and Towns
2022-01-24	House	Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2
2022-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
2022-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102708D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	961	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	961.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB706
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB706+hil