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HB135, 305, 424 are excellent. Please move to report. The only issue I have with HB811 is that all folks need to pay their way someway. Stop taxing the shrinking middle class: they're going broke paying for too many programs when they made the right choices. Penalizing them is NOT the way to grow Virginia. Its why our young folks are leaving.

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Comments Document

✅Virginia LCV encourages you to OPPOSE HB305 HB 305 (Ballard) Gas tax; allocating revenues from tax to certain localities for improving secondary roads. This Legislation Would: Instruct the CTB to award 50% of regional fuels tax dollars that go to the District Grant Program to improving or maintaining secondary roads. Secondary roads are critically important but this proposal would arbitrarily limit funding for other types of projects (such as urban roads and transit in certain geographic areas) in some areas with significant needs for these projects. Reasons to OPPOSE HB305 -- The SMART SCALE transportation funding prioritization process was unanimously called for by the General Assembly, has been reviewed annually by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and a year-long review is nearing conclusion. -- HB305 would put a thumb on the scale for certain projects in certain geographic areas.

HB135, 305, 424 are excellent. Please move to report. The only issue I have with HB811 is that all folks need to pay their way someway. Stop taxing the shrinking middle class: they're going broke paying for too many programs when they made the right choices. Penalizing them is NOT the way to grow Virginia. Its why our young folks are leaving.

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HB135, 305, 424 are excellent. Please move to report. The only issue I have with HB811 is that all folks need to pay their way someway. Stop taxing the shrinking middle class: they're going broke paying for too many programs when they made the right choices. Penalizing them is NOT the way to grow Virginia. Its why our young folks are leaving.

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This bill provides a legal process for an airport sponsor to address derelict or abandoned aircraft. When these situations occur, they often require a disproportionate amount of time and cash resources to address them in a manner that does not expose the airport to undue legal risk. Unlike motor vehicles and watercraft, there is no formal process to address these situations for aircraft in Virginia. This legislation helps ensure these situations are resolved transparently, expeditiously, and cost-effectively. This proposed legislation mirrors existing legislation from other states (e.g., Florida), and provides prescriptive measures for airport sponsors to follow to ensure all parties with a legal interest in the aircraft are duly notified and given sufficient opportunity to rectify the situation before an aircraft can be removed. This legislation helps Virginia's airports by supporting their ability to deliver quality aeronautical services, which includes using aircraft storage resources (e.g., hangars and tie-down areas) for their highest and best use. This legislation is supported by the Virginia Airport Operators Council (VAOC), a 501(c)6 organization that represents Virginia's 66 public-use airports. Thank you for your action of this important legislation.

I am writing on behalf of the Virginia Airport Operators Council (VAOC) in support of HB446. The VAOC represents the interest of Virginia’s 66 public-use airports. These airports are critical economic gateways to our state, providing convenient, safe, secure, and beneficial access to the largest of our cities and the smallest of our communities. HB446 adequately addresses the needs of airport operators looking to address abandoned or derelict aircraft at their airfields. While abandoned or derelict aircraft is not necessarily a prolific or overly visible problem, there are more than a handful of airports across Virginia that are currently grappling with the proper and legal ways to address such a case at their airport. Existing state law prescribes established procedures to address abandoned cars and boats, however, there is not presently a clear procedure in place for aircraft. HB446 addresses that and provides for a transparent, precise, and codified procedure for airport operators to follow. HB446 provides for adequate research, and notification and establishes a clear process to follow in these circumstances, reducing legal costs, delays, and other overhead costs for the airport. HB446 establishes a fair process to be followed in these unique and special circumstances. The VAOC supports this legislation and we encourage its passage.

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Comments Document

As a mother, I support HB532 and HB533. Having moved here recently, we never thought living near a road could be so terrifying for our family. I was almost hit three times, while crossing a road with my newborn to get to a nearby park. All of these incidents were in broad daylight, and we had the crosswalk light. Vehicles have flipped off the roadway less than a quarter mile from my house. Our driving culture is broken. Part of the reason is because there is a stunning lack of accountability of unsafe drivers in our area: if you read the attached report, you'll see that drivers who've struck and killed pedestrians usually pay a fine, and nothing more. The driver who killed two girls walking home from school did not have legal action. Cameras work at night, when drivers are the most unsafe, and there's the least amount of enforcement. Most importantly, having automated enforcement would spur hard conversations between spouses and between parents and young drivers, so that tragedies can be averted. Reading the comments, I saw that someone wrote that cameras don't work. They do. There are several studies that show that they not only work to decrease speed, but that they decrease community fatal accidents, and INCREASE general satisfaction with the community. I hope the committee lessens regulations on these cameras so people who live near these roads can live safe lives again. Please review the attached study to see how bad the problem is here.

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Please support HB532 and 533. I'm active duty military, and after a long absence, I recently moved back to my childhood home in Fairfax County for my assignment. Unchecked speeding has truly lessened safety., and it saddening me to see how it's hurt this community. I'm asking for our communities to have the tools they need to enforce laws that help our safety. As many have commented, we've already experienced loss of life. 6 vehicles have departed the roadway in the last year. I personally responded to a roll-over accident less than a quarter mile from an elementary school. I had three near misses crossing the road near my house walking my dogs. My wife had to retreat from the roadway with a stroller carrying our child 3 times due to careless driving. After a near miss, one of my dogs will no longer walk in my neighborhood. Yes, even my dog does not feel my neighborhood is safe. I did not serve 14 years in the military to come back to a neighborhood I can't be proud of. I demand that the legislature unties the hand of our local leaders so we can meaningfully enforce our laws. I understand that neighborhoods and roads change, but I just want it safe enough to cross the street with my child and play in a park. That seems like a request that anyone would want. Please refer to the attachments that cite how allowing for camera enforcement will lessen speeding, increase safety, and actually help community satisfaction. Our constituents want this.

We can not even get VDOT to mark the six lane Gallows Road in front of Stenwood Elementary School as a school zone. They recently widened the road to encourage speeding but have done nothing to enhance pedestrian safety. Please pass this legislation and other corresponding safety legislation so our neighborhood can get some relief from careless and, not infrequently, wreckless motorists. Thank You John Eltzroth, President Dunn Loring Improvement Association 8100 Revatom Ct Dunn Loring, VA 22027 703.898.7094 eltzroth@aol.com

I'm writing in support of HB532 because of the dangerous situation that was ongoing in my neighborhood. A very busy road (Blake Ln. in Vienna) has multiple crosswalks and they were not visible to drivers or pedestrians for an unacceptable length of time. Many months went by with blacked out crosswalks. This was along a known road that is quite busy with many accidents including a tragic death of a teenager 2 years ago. During any type of construction or road improvement, crosswalk safety should never be impacted.

Hello, I am writing in support of HB532. This legislation is a crucial step in making roads safer for pedestrians throughout Virginia. Last summer, VDOT repainted a very busy road I live along near Oakton High School. We were all thankful they were making upgrades to the road -- however, in preparation for the work, they removed painting/striping for at least 7 crosswalks along the road in May-- including the main crosswalk used by high school students at a very busy intersection. Those crosswalks remained unmarked throughout the entire summer, and in fact we were told they wouldn't be replaced until mid-September -- long after school had started! All summer long, pedestrians were in danger, trying to cross this road with no marked crosswalks. I personally saw a woman almost hit by a car right in front of me as she tried to get across this road at a crosswalk that had been made invisible months before. If HB532 had been enacted, I believe these 4 dangerous months for pedestrians in our community would never have happened, because the pedestrian -focused road safety audit required by this law would have highlighted the danger faced by removing crosswalk markings and would have made sure this only happened immediately prior to the repainting, not months before. This bill will make sure our pedestrians, and particularly our children walking to school, are taken into consideration and protected during transportation projects. Thank you, Andrea Falkenhagen, Vienna VA

Can I remote in to speak for this bill HB532? Thank you

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Committee Members, My name is Chris French, and I am the president of the board of Fairfax Families for Safe Streets. As our name suggests, we are an all volunteer organization focused on street safety, specifically pedestrian safety, that tries to educate elected officials, policy makers, and the public about how they can act to eliminate the traffic violence that kills and seriously injures so many County residents. Fairfax Families for Safe Streets and its members support Del Siebold’s HB532, as it would correctly prioritize pedestrian safety for our school children in VDOT’s planning of roadway improvements. Too often, pedestrians in Fairfax County - including school children - are left to “fend for themselves” during roadway construction projects. This happened in my own community this summer, during the repaving of a neighborhood arterial that passes adjacent to the local high school property. The high-visibility crosswalks at the intersection of Blake Lane and Sutton Road, used by hundreds of high school students each morning and afternoon to cross the 4-lane road, were removed in anticipation of a resurfacing project, and were not replaced for several months due to delays in the project. In our experience VDOT does not provide adequately safe accommodations, much less ADA-compliant accommodations, during most roadway projects. Pedestrians and other vulnerable road users are left with no choice but to put themselves at risk, often for weeks or months at a time while projects are completed. Our communities within Fairfax County are currently experiencing an epidemic of road violence that disproportionately affects vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, and other active transportation users outside of a vehicle). Ten Fairfax County pedestrians were killed by drivers in 2023, a decrease from the 32 pedestrians killed in 2023, however an additional 57 pedestrians were seriously injured in vehicle crashes in 2023, an increase over the 53 serious injuries in 2022. And more alarmingly, the total number of Fairfax County crashes involving pedestrians increased to 233 in 2023, as compared to 191 in 2022, and 144 in 2021. We are trending in a deadly direction. Almost all of these crashes occurred on roadways maintained by VDOT. Pedestrian and bicycle injury rates among County residents are on par with gun violence and non-fatal opioid injury rates, and black and Hispanic populations have the highest rates of emergency room visits and deaths due to pedestrian-involved crashes. These and other factors have lead the Fairfax County Health Department to call pedestrian safety as a public health concern “that requires a multidisciplinary, systems level response.” See https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/health/recognizing-pedestrian-safety-public-health-concern We ask that the Committee take any and all action it can to project the citizens of Virginia from traffic violence and reverse this deadly trend in the Commonwealth. Thank you.

I enthusiastically SUPPORT HBs 20, 21, 282, 532, 533, 657, 793, 812, 905, 1071, 1072, and 1077. Thank you.

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Please vote YES to Delegate Hope's HB557 that amends the Virginia Code to prohibit NVTA from funding projects in public parks and wildlife/waterfowl preserves unless there are no reasonable alternatives. Otherwise we'll end up with disastrous projects like the Cinder Bed Road bikeway in the Lee/Franconia District and the George Snyder Trail road in Fairfax City where bulldozers are slated to remove hundreds of trees and lay down asphalt or concrete surfaces over existing walking tails thus destroying lovely amenities despite intense opposition from local residents and nonprofit groups such as the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia and Friends of Accotink Creek. In neither case has the need been shown that building roads thru these forests of mature native trees is necessary for cyclists. As a commuter cyclist myself, I've cycled in both of the areas near the planned "bikeways" and can attest that the surrounding roads, either quiet and residential or sidewalked, are safe and viable for cyclists. These lovely amenities will be ruined for decades to come and all for no reason. Just because funding was provided, as far as I know much of it by VDOT. A wiser and less costly policy would make existing roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

I am writing on behalf of the Fairfax Environmental Forum to support HB557. Preservation of public parklands, recreation areas, and wildlife or waterfowl refuges. With the development of every square inch, and its ever increasing population density, Northern Virginia should be prioritizing the preservation of all of our remaining natural areas. Transportation funding breeds transportation projects and these large scale, environmentally damaging projects should not be carried out in, and at the expense of our wild spaces. The Fairfax Environmental Forum supports multi-model transportation on existing infrastructure. If we are to take cars off roads, the roads need to be made safe for many modes of transportation. The Fairfax Environmental Forum has petitioned our City to reconsider 5 of these proposed projects that we call 'Bike Roads.' These 5 bike roads would result in the loss of thousands of mature trees, our greatest carbon sinks, and many acres of woodlands, RPA, floodplain and critical wildlife habitat. We asked our City to recognize the immense role that mature trees and intact forests play in stormwater management, biodiversity, and climate, and to take measures to preserve our remnant forests. We have 2,344 signers who agree with us. https://chng.it/2sqd2tsQ5L "A study earlier this year, published in the journal Ecological Applications, looking at forest regeneration in 39 national parks up and down the East Coast. Using data from 12 years of monitoring, they put each park in one of four categories, ranging from secure – on the healthy end of the spectrum – to imminent failure. Out of the 39 parks, 27 were classified as in imminent or probable failure in terms of regeneration." "In the D.C. area, 9 out of the 11 parks studied were categorized as in imminent or probable failure." https://dcist.com/story/23/12/20/dc-local-forests-failing-tree-regeneration/?fbclid=IwAR2LG7-fkZYAbr21ikPK5VLqmrxPZHi6s1sO6lKZ4ZhFxalY_N1TgIkZ-sY We urge you to pass HB577 so that it can move one step closer to be voted in as Law, one step closer to protecting and preserving the natural beauty and natural resources that are so very important to all life in Northern Virginia. Thank you for your thoughtful consideration, Katy Johnson on behalf of the Fairfax Environmental Forum, Fairfax, VA

HB557 - Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; preservation of public parklands. - This bill should become law. Let's make our streets safe for people before we make more of our forests safe for asphalt. Northern Virginia's remaining natural habitats are fast dwindling before the demands for ever more pavement for all purposes, public and private. Even seemingly benign bike path projects make these last forested remnants into special targets, touting the topsy-turvy logic of deriving environmental benefit by clearing away natural habitats in forests and floodplains. Our forests and streams need protection instead of more pavement.

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The Audubon Society of Northern Virginia submits the attached testimony supporting HB557

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See attached file.

Please vote YES on HB557 that amends the Virginia Code to prohibit NVTA from funding projects in public parks and wildlife/waterfowl preserves unless there are no feasible and prudent alternatives. In 1968, the U.S. Congress amended the U.S. Code to prevent the U.S. Department of Transportation from constructing and funding such projects. Virginia presently has no comparable legislation. The need for such legislation is evident from the fact in 2021 NOVA Parks completed a project that more than doubled the width of a 1.5-mile-long section of the W&OD Trail in the City of Falls Church from about 10 feet to about 21 feet with $3.4 million in NVTA funds. This project (termed the “Falls Church W&OD Dual Trail”) replaced with paved impermeable surfaces much of the natural area in the W&OD Regional Park through which the W&OD Trail travels in that city. The project also removed a number of mature ornamental trees and shrubs that a Falls Church gardening club had planted soon after W&OD Trail opened in 1974 and in doing so created a substantial adverse environmental impact that NOVA Parks did not adequately mitigate. The project area now contains only a small number of new young trees. Mowed lawns occupy about 40% of the project's unpaved area. Claims that HB557 will increase the cost of NVTA funded projects are baseless, since the statutory language itself enables the taking of public land in cases where there is no feasible alternative. Thank you in advance for your YES vote on HB557. Audrey Clement, Ph.D. 1530 North Longfellow Street APT B Arlington, VA 22205

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HB135, 305, 424 are excellent. Please move to report. The only issue I have with HB811 is that all folks need to pay their way someway. Stop taxing the shrinking middle class: they're going broke paying for too many programs when they made the right choices. Penalizing them is NOT the way to grow Virginia. Its why our young folks are leaving.