Virginia Administrative Code › Title 1 - ADMINISTRATION › Agency 50 - COMMISSION ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT › Chapter 20 - ORGANIZATION AND REGULATIONS OF PROCEDURE › Part IV - Information, Data, and Factors Relative to Mandatory Commission Reviews › Section 1VAC50-20-590 - County-city transitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
In developing its findings of fact and recommendations with
					 respect to a proposed county to city transition, the commission shall consider
					 the information, data, and factors listed in this section. Any county filing
					 notice with the commission that it proposes to become a city shall submit with
					 the notice data and other evidence responsive to each element listed in this
					 section that it deems relevant to the proposed transition.
1. A map showing (i) the location of all
				  towns situated within the county; (ii) all adjoining and adjacent localities;
				  (iii) identifiable unincorporated communities within the county; (iv) the
				  population density of the various areas of the county; (v) the areas of the
				  county served by urban services; (vi) major streets, highways, schools, and
				  other major public facilities; (vii) significant geographic features, including
				  mountains and bodies of water; (viii) existing uses of the land, including
				  residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural; and (ix) information
				  deemed relevant as to the possible future use of the property within the
				  county.
2. A land-use table showing
				  both the acreage and percentage of land currently devoted to the various
				  categories of land use in the county.
3. The past, the estimated current, and the
				  projected future population of the county, each town within the county, and of
				  the major densely populated unincorporated communities within the
				  county.
4. The past, the estimated
				  current, and the projected future number of public school students enrolled in
				  the public schools and the number of school-age children living in the county
				  and in each town within the county.
5. The assessed values, by major
				  classification and if appropriate, the ratios of assessed values to true values
				  for real property, personal property, machinery and tools, merchants' capital,
				  and public service corporation property for the current year and the preceding
				  10 years for the county and each town within the county.
6. The current local property and nonproperty
				  tax rates, and the tax rates for the preceding 10 years, within the county and
				  all towns within the county.
7. The
				  estimated current local revenue collections and intergovernmental aid, the
				  collections and aid for the previous 10 years, and projections of the
				  collections and aid (including tax receipts from real property, personal
				  property, machinery and tools, merchants' capital, business and professional
				  license, consumer utility, and sales taxes) within the county and within each
				  town within the county.
8. The
				  amount of long-term indebtedness of the county and each town within the county
				  and the amount and purpose for which that debt has been incurred.
9. Data regarding (i) the urban-type services
				  presently provided by the county; (ii) the level of those services; (iii) the
				  areas of the county served by those services; (iv) the additional services to
				  be provided and the additional cost to be borne by the proposed city; and (v)
				  the means by which the proposed city shall finance the additional services and
				  costs.
10. The fiscal capacity of
				  the county to function as an independent city and to provide appropriate
				  services.
11. The impact of the
				  proposed transition on compliance with and the promotion of applicable state
				  policies with respect to environmental protection, public planning, education,
				  public transportation, housing, and other state service policies declared by
				  the General Assembly.
12. The
				  commission's staff shall endeavor to assist localities contemplating or
				  involved in proposed county-city transitions by identifying additional data
				  elements considered by the commission to be relevant in the disposition of
				  county to city transition issues.
Statutory Authority: §
												15.2-2903
						of the Code of Virginia.