2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25103561D

HOUSE BILL NO. 1984

Offered January 13, 2025

Prefiled January 7, 2025

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-2209.4, relating to siting of data centers; parks, schools, and residential areas.

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Patron—Lovejoy

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Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-2209.4 as follows:

§ 15.2-2209.4. Siting of data centers; parks, schools, and residential areas.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, any local government land use application required for the siting of a data center, as defined in subdivision A 43 of § 58.1-3506, shall only be approved for areas that are one-quarter mile or more from federal, state, or local parks, schools, and property zoned or used for residential use.