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Proposed by the Free Enterprise Forum March 15, 2016
RE0 L. U T 1I0 N OF WTE1T
WHEREAS, the Cash Proffer Policy for Public Facilities was adopted as part of the
County's Comprehensive Plan on October 10, 2007 so that all new rezoning that
include residential development would pay for the equivalent of their full impact;
and
WHEREAS, last Monday, March 7t" Governor Terrance McAuliffe signed SB549
which invalidates Albemarle County's fundamentally flawed fiscal methodology
currently being used to calculate the Cash Proffer Policy for Public Facilities, and
WHEREAS, cash proffers are an unreliable, inappropriate 'welcome stranger' tax.
that encourages by right development indirect conflict with Albemarle County's
Comprehensive Plan, and
WHEREAS, The Albemarle County Planning Commission and the Fiscal Impact
Advisory Committee have wasted over eighteen months and failed to yet act on
the General Assembly's 2013 Cash Proffer reforms, and
HEUAS, the proffer discussion, while related to planning and development is
best heard by the elected Board of Supervisors NOT the Planning Commission.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT for purposes of public necessity,
convenience, general welfare and good planning practices, the Albemarle County
Planning Commission hereby adopts and forwards a resolution of intent to ask the
Albemarle Board of Supervisors to consider amending the Albemarle County
Comprehensive Plan as deemed necessary in order to achieve the purposes
described herein; and
BE IT FURTHER, RESOLVKD THAT the Albemarle County Planning Commission
asks the Board of Supervisors to expeditiously hold a public hearing on the
Comprehensive Plan amendment proposed by this resolution of intent and repeal
cash proffers.