The City of Virginia Beach adopted the CBPAO on January 1, 1991. This ordinance affects all property in Virginia Beach that drains into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, approximately the northern one-third of the City.
In addition, the CBPAO is an effort to enhance the water quality by protecting environmentally-sensitive areas such as buffers adjacent to waterways, tidal shores, and wetlands, as well as highly erodible soils. These sensitive areas, called Resource Protection Areas (RPAs), are closest to the shorelines that have an intrinsic water quality value or are sensitive to the impact of development. All other lands in the watershed are called Resource Management Areas (RMAs). The RMA is intended to protect the integrity of the RPA and extends from the RPA boundary outward to the watershed boundary limit.
Further information regarding the CBPAO can be found in Appendix F of the Virginia Beach City Code.
Application Filing Deadline
The Deadline for filing an application to be heard by the CBPA Board is the 5th day of each month for the following month’s hearing.
CBPA Meeting Times
- The formal hearing is held once every month, at 10 a.m. in Council Chamber, located in Building 1. Please refer to the agendas & minutes ribbon below for specific public hearing dates.
Effective only on the month of January 2020, the CBPA Board informal session will be
held at 9:00 a.m. in the STiR Office Large Conference Room 110 at 2408 Courthouse Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23456 (see attached map).
Application Filing Fees
The filing fees must be made payable to the City Treasurer.
- CBPA Variance Application Fee $450
*The costs of the public notice sign(s), legal advertisements in the Virginia-Pilot/Beacon, and the postage for mailing of requirement notices to property owners adjacent to the subject site is required in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Most recently notification fees were variable and based on the number of signs required, number of adjacent property owners and the amount of text in the legal notice and could not be assessed and paid until after the application fee was paid. Effective October 1, 2017, a flat fee for the CBPA public notice will be implemented and will be paid at the same time as the Board application fee.