Boasso Am. Corp. v. Zoning Adm'r of Chesapeake

OPINION BY JUSTICE STEPHEN R. McCULLOUGH

**205 This appeal calls upon us to construe Code § 15.2-2314, which governs appeals from a board of zoning appeals to a circuit court. We conclude that to initiate a proceeding under Code § 15.2-2314, a litigant must name the local governing body as a necessary party in the petition, and the litigant must do so within the 30-day window provided by Code § 15.2-2314. We further hold that a litigant may not amend the petition after the 30-day period to belatedly add the local governing body. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the circuit court, which…