RESOLUTION
    Amending and Re-enacting the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Charlottesville
       WHEREAS on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 the Charlottesville City Council and the
Charlottesville Planning Commission held a joint public hearing on proposed amendments and a
proposed re-enactment of the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Charlottesville, dated
November 15, 2021, as amended to date (the “Comprehensive Plan”), after notice of intention to
do so was published in accordance with the requirements of Virginia Code §15.2-2204(A); and
       WHEREAS, after the public hearing on December 13, 2022, the Planning Commission
unanimously recommended approval of the proposed amendments and re-enactment of the
Comprehensive Plan and directed that said plan be transmitted to City Council for consideration
(the “Certified Plan”); and
       WHEREAS as required by Sec. 15.2-2225 of the Code of Virginia, a link to the Certified
Plan was posted on the City’s website on which the Planning Commission generally posts,
information and the Certified Plan has been available to the public; and
        WHEREAS City Council desires that the proposed amendments be made, to-wit: (i)
amendments to Chapter 4 (Land Use, Urban Form, and Historic & Cultural Preservation) and to
Chapter 5 (Housing), to add provisions promoting manufactured housing as a source of
affordable housing, and (ii) amendment to Chapter 7 (Environment, Climate and Food Equity),
to add the City’s Climate Action Plan as a component of the Comprehensive Plan, thereby
expanding the City’s action strategies related to climate change mitigation through greenhouse
gas emissions reductions, and providing guides for action that address equity, focus on co-
benefits, and plan for community engagement and capacity building; and
        WHEREAS City Council finds and determines that, with the amendments desired by
Council as described above, the Certified Plan has been made with the purpose of guiding and
accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the territory within the
City which will, in accordance with present and future probable future needs and resources, best
promote the health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare of the
City’s inhabitants; NOW, THEREFORE,
        BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville THAT the aforesaid
Certified Plan is hereby adopted, re-enacted and re-ordained as the official Comprehensive Plan
for the City of Charlottesville pursuant to Virginia Code Sec. 15.2-2226 and shall hereafter
continue to be known and referred to as the City’s “Comprehensive Plan (2021)”.