HD30 - The Standards for Subdivision Streets and Related Matters
Executive Summary: A joint resolution sponsored by Delegate Robert T. Andrews was introduced in the 1983 session and passed (House Joint Resolution No. 119 - Appendix A). The resolution called for a study, by an eight-member panel, of the need for legislation authorizing local governments to adopt standards and criteria requiring subdividers and developers of land to provide road improvements, both on-site and off-site, made necessary because of their activities. The study also was to consider the creation of a transportation improvement program which would be an enlargement of the concept of off-site road improvements by one party to the concept of road improvements over an expanded area by multiple parties. The principal reason for the study was the decision of the Virginia Supreme Court in the case of Hylton Enterprises, Inc. v. Board of Supervisors of Prince William County, et al. (Appendix B). The decision held county supervisors lacked express or implied statutory authority to require a subdivider to reconstruct abutting public highways as a condition of approval of a plat. Appointed by the Speaker from the House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns were Delegates C. Richard Cranwell and R. Beasley Jones, and from the House Committee on Roads and Internal Navigation were Delegates Robert T. Andrews and Robert B. Ball, Sr. Appointed by the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections from the Senate Committee on Local Government was Senator Charles J. Colgan, and from the Senate Committee on Transportation was Senator R. Edward Houck. Joining the legislative members were Carl F. Bowmer, Esquire, representing the home building industry, and the Honorable Nancy A. Creech, representing local governments. Delegate Ball was elected chairman of the joint subcommittee; Senator Colgan was elected vice chairman. |
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