Bill Text: VA SB314 | 2020 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Grandfathering certain nonconforming use; removes certain requirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-03 - Left in Counties, Cities and Towns [SB314 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2020-SB314-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That Chapter 707 of the Acts of Assembly of 2019 is amended and reenacted as follows:
§1. A wall built on residential property shall be
grandfathered as a valid nonconforming use, and the wall shall not be subject
to removal solely due to such nonconformity, in any instance where (i) a
residential property owner sought local government approval prior to 2008 for
construction of a wall on the owner's property, (ii) the property owner was
informed by a local official that such wall
required no permit and that the structure would comply with
the zoning ordinance, (iii) the wall was thereafter constructed, (iv) the
locality subsequently informed the property owner that the wall was illegal,
and (v) such a wall, had it been constructed as described in clauses (ii) and
(iii) after 2017, would be considered a valid nonconforming use not subject to
removal.
