Chap. 272.—-An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 62 of an act entitled “An
act to provide a new charter for the city of Williamsburg, and to repeal
all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith’, approved March 29, 1932,

the said section relating to zoning ordinances and boards of zoning appeals.
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Approved March 26, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion sixty-two of an act entitled an act to provide a new charter for
the city of Williamsburg, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts
in conflict therewith, approved March twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred
and thirty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 62. For the purpose stated in chapter one hundred and
ninety-seven of the Acts of Assembly, approved March eighteenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-six, as amended, the city council is
hereby empowered to pass zoning ordinances in conformity therewith,
subject, however, to the following modifications thereto:

(a) For any or all of the aforesaid purposes, the council may
divide the city and adjoining area within one and one-half miles of
the corporate limits.

(b) The council shall not adopt any zoning ordinance or map
until it. shall have appointed a city planning commission, as provided
in chapter seven and shall have received from said commission its
recommendations as to a zoning ordinance and map, and shall have
held a public hearing thereon.

(c) Any zoning ordinance, regulations, restrictions, and bound-
aries of districts may be changed from time to time by the council,
either upon its own motion or upon petition, under such conditions
as the council may prescribe, after a public hearing and adequate notice
to all owners and parties affected. If a protest or protests be filed with
the council, signed by the owners of twenty per centum or more of
the area of the land included in the proposed change, or by the
owners of twenty per centum or more of the area of the land imme-
diately adjacent to the land included in the proposed change, within
a distance of one hundred feet therefrom, or by the owners of
twenty per centum or more of the area of the land directly opposite
across any street or streets from the land included in the proposed
change, within a distance of one hundred feet from the street lines
directly opposite, then no such change shall be made except by the
favorable vote of three-fourths of all’ the members of the council.
No change shall be made by the council in any zoning ordinance or
map until such change has been referred to the city planning com-
mission for a report thereon, and no action shall be taken by the
council until a report has been received from the commission, unless
a period of thirty days has elapsed after the date of reference to the
commission.

(d) Within thirty days after the adoption of any zoning ordinance
and map, the council shall appoint a board of zoning appeals, con-
sisting of five members, at least one of whom shall be from the terri-
tory adjacent to the city, none of whom shall hold any other position
with the city.

Such board shall have the powers and duties imposed upon boards
of zoning appeals by chapter one hundred and ninety-seven of the Acts
of the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-six, ap-
proved, March eighteeth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, as amended.

The council may remove any member of the board for cause, after
a public hearing. If a vacancy occurs otherwise than by the expiration
of the term of the different members, it shall be filled by the council
for the unexpired term.

Unless the council designates some member of the board as chair-
man, the board shall select a chairman from among its own members,
and may create and fill such other offices as it may choose. The
board may employ such persons as the council may approve, and ex-
pend such sums as are appropriated by the council for its work.