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Harrisonburg Planning Commission unanimously initiates zoning review of inpatient substance use disorder facilities
Summary
The commission voted Oct. 30 to initiate zoning-ordinance amendments addressing inpatient substance use disorder (SUD) treatment facilities after staff discovered a procedural requirement in Virginia law. Staff will re-advertise the item and return a draft ordinance for public hearing, with the commission scheduled to consider it Nov. 13.
The Harrisonburg Planning Commission voted unanimously Oct. 30 to initiate consideration of zoning-ordinance amendments concerning inpatient substance use disorder treatment facilities, hospitals and related definitions, following a staff request to correct a procedural requirement under state law.
Ton Ding, deputy director of Community Development, told the commission staff had previously presented draft amendments at the Planning Commission’s Oct. 8 meeting and received unanimous approval. After a building-permit application was filed for an inpatient SUD facility on property zoned R-3, the property owner’s attorney informed staff of a procedural requirement in state law that zoning-ordinance amendments must be initiated either by City Council resolution or by a motion of the…
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