CHAPTER 389

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15-918, 15-919, 15-921 and 15-928 of the
Code of Virginia, relating to county master plans for the physical
development of the unincorporated territory of such counties.

{H 311]
Approved March 29, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 15-918, 15-919, 15-921 and 15-923 of the Code of Virginia
be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15-918. A county planning commission shall make and * recom-
mend for adoption to the governing body of the county a master plan for
the physical development of the unincorporated territory of the county.
Any such plan may include the planning of incorporated towns to the
extent to which, in the commission’s judgment, they are related to the
planning of the unincorporated territory of the county as a whole, pro-
vided, however, that the plan shall not be considered as a master plan for
any incorporated town without the consent of the planning commission
and the council of such incorporated town, and provided further that the
county plan shall be co-ordinated with the plans of the State Department
of Highways, insofar as it relates to highways or thoroughfares under the
jurisdiction of that department.

§ 15-919. The master plan of a county, with the accompanying maps,
plats, charts and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show * recom-
mendations for the development of 'the territory covered by the plan and
may include, among other things, the general location, character and
extent of streets or roads, viaducts, bridges, waterways and water-front
developments, parkways, playgrounds, forests, reservations, parks, air-
ports and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces; the general lo-
cation and extent of publicly owned utilities and terminals, and other
purposes ; the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrow-
ing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing public
ways, grounds, places, spaces, buildings, properties, utilities or terminals;
the general character, location and extent of community centers, town sites
or housing developments; the general location and extent of forests,
agricultural areas and open-development areas for the purposes of con-
servation, food and water supply, sanitary drainage facilities or the pro-
tection of urban development; a land-classification and utilization pro-
gram; the distribution of population, and the uses of land for trade,
industry, habitation, recreation, agriculture, forestry, soil and water con-
servation and other purposes.
§ 15-921. A county planning commission may * approve the county
master plan as a whole by a single resolution, or, as the work of making
the whole master plan progresses, may from time to time * approve a part
or parts thereof, any such part to correspond generally with one or more
of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter which may be included
in the plan. The commission may from time to time * recommend amend-
ments, extensions or additions to the plan or carry any part of it into
greater detail. The * approval of the plan or any part, amendment, ex-
tension or addition shall be by resolution carried by the affirmative votes
of not less than a majority of the entire membership of the commission.
The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive matter in-
tended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan and the
action taken shall be recorded on the map or maps and descriptive matter
by the identifying signature of the secretary of the commission.

§ 15-923. Whenever the governing body of any county * shall have
adopted a master plan of the county or any part thereof, * then and
thenceforth no road, park or other public way, public ground or public
space, no public building or structure and no public utility, whether pub-
licly or privately owned, shall be constructed or authorized in the unin-
corporated territory of the county or region until and unless the proposed
location and extent thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by
such county planning commission. *