SD16 - Certain Provisions of the Subdivision Law
Executive Summary: This study was occasioned by perceived delays on the part of at least some local governments in the Commonwealth in performing various reviews and inspections required during the residential subdivision development process. Local governments clearly have a public responsibility to ensure the quality and safety of housing. At the same time, unnecessary delays are of concern to the building industry because they represent economic costs. It also can be argued that they burden the prospective home owner, both in the availability and cost of housing. In view of the concerns about such delays, the 1986 General Assembly through Senate Joint Resolution No. 47 created this Joint Subcommittee to examine the advisability of expanding the use of private engineering firms in the inspection process for residential development as a means of reducing delay and, given the cyclical pattern of the housing market, to avoid unnecessary overstaffing of local governments for what might prove to be a relatively short period of peak demand for inspection services. Appointed to the Joint Subcommittee from the Senate were Richard L. Saslaw of Fairfax County, the chief patron of SJR No. 47, and Kevin G. Miller of Harrisonburg. House of Delegates members included John G. Dicks Ill of Chesterfield, Shirley F. Cooper of York County, and Kenneth E. Calvert of Danville. Citizen members of the Joint Subcommittee were Joseph J. Basgier, P.E., of Virginia Beach, Samuel A. Finz of Loudoun County, and the Honorable Audrey C. Moore, a member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Senator Saslaw was elected Chairman and Delegate Dicks was elected Vice-Chairman at the first meeting of the Joint Subcommittee. |
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