Virginia Senate Bill #308 is worth reading--although you may feel a need to wash your hands after looking at it--because it spells out exactly what kind of abominations "zoning ordinances" can inflict on property owners. Full text:
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB308S1
Maybe you don't want to turn a beautiful old home site or family farm into a slum? Good luck...that could qualify as "violation of a zoning ordinance that limits occupancy in a residential dwelling unit, which is subject to a civil penalty..."
Actually, that's already become law; SB308 only proposes to keep it in the law. What's new in SB308 is a provision that, before you can even beg for some exception to the amount of "development" some sort of "planner" (who probably doesn't even live in your neighborhood) has decided to inflict on your neighborhood, you can be required to pay all sorts of stacked-up, trumped-up fees for any past non-conformity to the plan!
We need an organized way to oppose the organized strategy of introducing totalitarianism into local government via these mostly non-resident "planning committees." Would anybody out there like to organize a grassroots movement of Planner Banners, dedicated to the cause of tossing any "planning committees," or people who think any community needs one, or proposals for zoning ordinances or other "plans," right out of our town and county meetings?
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