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STATEMENT OF OPPOSITION
Project Name: 624/626 Booker Street, Charlottesville VA
Current Zoning: R.1S Proposed Zoning: B.3
We, the undersigned, hereby ask City Council to deny the proposed rezoning of 624/626 Booker Street from R.1S to B.3.
- 624/626 Booker Street, Charlottesville VA 22903 is currently occupied by an unfinished structure that permitted to be built as a single-family dwelling.
- B.3 zoning would allow commercial use that could generate significant amounts of traffic, as well as problems, noise, odors, lighting glare, etc. Given the owner's property holdings elsewhere in the neighborhood, his proposal effectively annexes an historic portion of Rose Hill neighborhood to expand the commercial development of Preston and Rose Hill Avenue.
- Allowing 624/626 Booker Street to be rezoned to B.3 sets a precedent for other neighborhood properties to be rezoned.
- The owner's proffer to convert the current structure to a multi-family unit, consisting of three stacked single-family dwellings, isn't satisfactory to the neighborhood. The usage would be inconsistent with the current and historic nature of that specific block, and the neighborhood overall, which is a close-knit residential community.
- The Rose Hill Neighborhood, celebrating a 100-year anniversary this year, strongly desires to preserve the single-family, modest income character of this historic and culturally important neighborhood.
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The original builder knew that the zoning was R1 when he decided to build this structure. Same for the current owner. Building it anyway and then trying to get the zoning changed "because it's already built" is not fair to Rose Hill residents.
This building does not fit the neighborhood and was started under false pretenses. It is zoned for single families and should remain so.
I lived next door to this monstrosity during the nightmare of construction. The noise, the inconvenience, coming home to find the construction guys' extension cords connected to our house, the mysterious $600 water bill the month they were creating the concrete foundation (with no water at the site but apparently ours), ah, I could go on and on about what an aggressive loud rude neighbor this project and how it ruined the last six of my life in Charlottesville. But I digress. The time for meeting with the neighborhood was THEN, before you spent over a million dollars on a steel framed building completely out of scale and character and price point with the neighborhood. Since nobody in the existing neighborhood has that kind of money and the developer owns additional properties on the street, this announces itself as a business model. The profits will be enormous if council lets them get away with it. Don't let them get away with it...
I think this old neighborhood, that has been traditionally lower income, should stay ungentrified. Please seriously consider the ever escalating costs of purchasing a home anywhere within city limits. It's getting to be prohibitively expensive to live in town and a lot of lower income folks have no reliable personal transportation.
Charlottesville needs more affordable single family housing, not high-end residential and more commercial development
I've lived in this lovely neighborhood for more than 40 years. I want it to remain as is.
A city needs a mix of incomes in order to foster interaction between people of differing affluence. Otherwise, it's all to easy to be unaware of the situations of others.
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
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STATEMENT OF OPPOSITION
Project Name: 624/626 Booker Street, Charlottesville VA
Current Zoning: R.1S Proposed Zoning: B.3
We, the undersigned, hereby ask City Council to deny the proposed rezoning of 624/626 Booker Street from R.1S to B.3.
- 624/626 Booker Street, Charlottesville VA 22903 is currently occupied by an unfinished structure that permitted to be built as a single-family dwelling.
- B.3 zoning would allow commercial use that could generate significant amounts of traffic, as well as problems, noise, odors, lighting glare, etc. Given the owner's property holdings elsewhere in the neighborhood, his proposal effectively annexes an historic portion of Rose Hill neighborhood to expand the commercial development of Preston and Rose Hill Avenue.
- Allowing 624/626 Booker Street to be rezoned to B.3 sets a precedent for other neighborhood properties to be rezoned.
- The owner's proffer to convert the current structure to a multi-family unit, consisting of three stacked single-family dwellings, isn't satisfactory to the neighborhood. The usage would be inconsistent with the current and historic nature of that specific block, and the neighborhood overall, which is a close-knit residential community.
- The Rose Hill Neighborhood, celebrating a 100-year anniversary this year, strongly desires to preserve the single-family, modest income character of this historic and culturally important neighborhood.
8 Comments
Nothing about this proposed rezoning appears to benefit the long-time and committed residents of the area; indeed, rezoning for commecial interests would more likely put unreasonable pressure on those residents of this historic area -- to sell, to move, or to have to live with massive inconvenience. Who would benefit from this? Not residents, not Rose Hill.
The original builder knew that the zoning was R1 when he decided to build this structure. Same for the current owner. Building it anyway and then trying to get the zoning changed "because it's already built" is not fair to Rose Hill residents.
This building does not fit the neighborhood and was started under false pretenses. It is zoned for single families and should remain so.
I lived next door to this monstrosity during the nightmare of construction. The noise, the inconvenience, coming home to find the construction guys' extension cords connected to our house, the mysterious $600 water bill the month they were creating the concrete foundation (with no water at the site but apparently ours), ah, I could go on and on about what an aggressive loud rude neighbor this project and how it ruined the last six of my life in Charlottesville. But I digress. The time for meeting with the neighborhood was THEN, before you spent over a million dollars on a steel framed building completely out of scale and character and price point with the neighborhood. Since nobody in the existing neighborhood has that kind of money and the developer owns additional properties on the street, this announces itself as a business model. The profits will be enormous if council lets them get away with it. Don't let them get away with it...
I think this old neighborhood, that has been traditionally lower income, should stay ungentrified. Please seriously consider the ever escalating costs of purchasing a home anywhere within city limits. It's getting to be prohibitively expensive to live in town and a lot of lower income folks have no reliable personal transportation.
Charlottesville needs more affordable single family housing, not high-end residential and more commercial development
I've lived in this lovely neighborhood for more than 40 years. I want it to remain as is.
A city needs a mix of incomes in order to foster interaction between people of differing affluence. Otherwise, it's all to easy to be unaware of the situations of others.
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Nothing about this proposed rezoning appears to benefit the long-time and committed residents of the area; indeed, rezoning for commecial interests would more likely put unreasonable pressure on those residents of this historic area -- to sell, to move, or to have to live with massive inconvenience. Who would benefit from this? Not residents, not Rose Hill.