Bill > HB594

Introduced Session

Expedited approval for certain affordable housing developments. Allows a locality, by ordinance, to authorize a zoning administrator to use an administrative process to approve rezoning applications for affordable housing developments. The bill requires that the affordable housing development comply with the Virginia Fair Housing Law, connect to a public or community water supply or sewage system, and be located within or adjacent to an area identified by the locality that could support increased density development and provide access to services. The bill also requires the locality, prior to the adoption of such ordinance, to advertise its intention to propose such ordinance within a certain period of time in a newspaper having a general circulation in the locality. The bill allows the Department of Housing and Community Development to give a locality priority for any grants or loans administered by the Department if such locality demonstrates to the Department's satisfaction that its ordinance has met the provisions of the bill. Finally, the bill requires certain localities that adopt such ordinance to include in their annual local housing policy report to the Department a summary of the ordinance.

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Shelly Simonds (D)*,  Kimberly Adams (D),  Jessica Anderson (D),  Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D),  Katrina Callsen (D),  Betsy Carr (D),  Stacey Carroll (D),  Laura Jane Cohen (D),  Joshua Cole (D),  Nicole Cole (D),  Kelly Convirs-Fowler (D),  Rae Cousins (D),  Michael Feggans (D),  Lily Franklin (D),  Dan Helmer (D),  Karen Keys-Gamarra (D),  Paul Krizek (D),  Destiny LeVere Bolling (D),  Fernando Martinez (D),  Garrett McGuire (D),  Leslie Chambers Mehta (D),  Marcia Price (D),  Atoosa Reaser (D),  David Reid (D),  Holly Seibold (D),  Irene Shin (D),  Marcus Simon (D),  Kathy Tran (D), 

Referred to Committee on Local Government (on 01/30/2026)

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