15.2-4311 - Review of districts.
§ 15.2-4311. Review of districts.
The local governing body may complete a review of any district created underthis section, together with additions to such district, no less than fouryears but no more than ten years after the date of its creation and everyfour to ten years thereafter. If the local governing body determines that areview is necessary, it shall begin such review at least ninety days beforethe expiration date of the period established when the district was created.In conducting such review, the local governing body shall ask for therecommendations of the local advisory committee and the planning commissionin order to determine whether to terminate, modify or continue the district.When each district is reviewed, land within the district may be withdrawn atthe owner's discretion by filing a written notice with the local governingbody at any time before it acts to continue, modify or terminate thedistrict. The local planning commission or the advisory committee shallschedule as part of the review a public meeting with the owners of landwithin the district, and shall send by first-class mail a written notice ofthe meeting and review to all such owners. The notice shall state the timeand place for the meeting; that the district is being reviewed by the localgoverning body; that the local governing body may continue, modify, orterminate the district; and that land may be withdrawn from the district atthe owner's discretion by filing a written notice with the local governingbody at any time before it acts to continue, modify or terminate thedistrict. The local governing body shall hold a public hearing as provided bylaw. The governing body may stipulate conditions to continuation of thedistrict and may establish a period before the next review of the district,which may be different from the conditions or period established when thedistrict was created. Any such different conditions or period shall bedescribed in a notice sent by first-class mail to all owners of land withinthe district and published in a newspaper having a general circulation withinthe district at least two weeks prior to adoption of the ordinance continuingthe district. Unless the district is modified or terminated by the localgoverning body, the district shall continue as originally constituted, withthe same conditions and period before the next review as that establishedwhen the district was created.
If the local governing body determines that a review is unnecessary, it shallset the year in which the next review shall occur.
(1977, c. 681, § 15.1-1511; 1979, c. 377; 1981, c. 546; 1984, c. 20; 1985, c.13; 1987, c. 552; 1993, cc. 745, 761; 1997, c. 587.)