Please support this bill. Parking lots are great places for solar arrays, and localities should be given all the tools they need to enable renewable energy to be installed in their jurisdiction. There is no risk in giving localities more options for local requirements, the localities need to be trusted to make land use rules that work for them. This bill has no downsides. It forces localities to truly examine the cost of the solar and the cost of the requirement on local development and whether the requirement works economically and socially in their area.

I stand with VCDL on these bills.

HB 1234 Please facilitate the ease of employing solar canopies in parking lots for both cheap electricity and utilizing non-green space. HB 549 Please allow localities strong input in tree loss mitigation and replacement in development.