We do not need another hotel. We are going to over built on hotels if we are not careful. The reality is not all of the propose hotels will be built. You have developers jockeying to get there project done first hoping others will decide not to move forward.
What we need in this area is housing.
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Joni raskin
11 years ago
I continue to be appaulled at the council's negation of towns peoples needs and want serving naybe tax benefits and the wealthy.
I say pack your bags council, we need young conscious and fir the goid of thw whoke representatives running this town.
Stop treating cville like its new york. You've al ready destroyed traffic here. Its unredeemable.
No to yet another unnecessary hotel. What are you thinking with??
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Anonymous
11 years ago
So tired of people who don't look like me telling me what I need !
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Pamela
11 years ago
A hotel on that corner would go against the character of the Ridge Street neighborhood.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
I would like City Council to require more greenspace between sidewalk and street when new construction happens. Current new construction on Main Street is too tall for the sense of community needed there. Please finish current new hotels in downtown before starting more.
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key
11 years ago
This does not fit Fifeville......what's next closing the park!
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amy proffitt
11 years ago
Yes!!We need more development and possibly jobs
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ty cooper
11 years ago
Petition
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Douglas Olson
11 years ago
I'm in favor of slowing this process to allow all to be heard and their opinions considered, especially local residents.
Thank you!
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Kimberly Lauter
11 years ago
One councilor, Kristin Layng Szakos, has asserted that the petition is misleading (and therefore irrelevant...400 signatures total?) because the council is not voting on whether there should be a hotel or not. Technically, A hotel IS currently allowed there, that was decided years ago. What IS being voted on is whether council is going to make it easy for the developer (Southern Development) to build a big box hotel on the historic land by approving the amendment against the community's wishes or whether we will hold the developer to actually engage with the community, honor the historic nature of the land, honor the planning commission and neighborhood, stay with their original PUD or submit another. Asking council to reject this amendment is the only way to slow down Southern Development and potentially move to not have a big box hotel on the land. If a councilor tells you there is nothing that can be done, they aren't being truthful. Write Charlottesville City Council, contact a representative Dede Smith, Satyendra Huja,Kathleen GalvinBob Fenwick and attend the meeting Monday night 7:00.
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Laura Galgano
11 years ago
Aside from the points made in the petition, why have a SECOND Marriot 3 blocks from the one currently being built?!
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Sandy Heitz
11 years ago
This hotel is not in keeping with the old and historic nature of the surrounding neighborhood. Please do not allow construction of this hotel on this proposed site.
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Katherine heitz
11 years ago
No!
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Jane Barnes
11 years ago
We do not need another hotel (after all we have the enormous hotel going up only a few blocks away on Main Street. Commercial overbuilding is the end of neighborhoods.
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NATHANIEL L. GALEA
11 years ago
No more big Hotels!! I have lived in Charlottesville for the majority of my life. I do not think that we need another hotel. It will not help the immediate community reach its development potential, goes against the recommendations of the Planning Commision, totally lacks foresight and vision in its design! It will make low wage employees subservient to a big box commercial mentality. How does this project help to build an ownership society? This hotel will destroy a pocket of green space that has much more quality of life potential than a profit driven one size fits all development that will dominate the historic landscape that is the Ridge Street neighborhood and tower over the Tonsler Park area. No No NO. Let's let the other huge hotels be built and encourage more private rentals like air B and B!! That way the money flows to the citizens and stays local, not to multinational corporations who could care less about our town and neighborhoods.
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Robert Mical
11 years ago
I do not support a hotel.
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Kirsten Schroeder
11 years ago
Take all that money and fix the "LANDMARK HOTEL".
I consider it a shame that "Random Row" was demolished. It was a community center, ie :a place available for people to meet/discuss/create/ perform, etc. At NO cost to the city (to my knowledge).
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John Morrison
11 years ago
Please don't ruin this corner of our town. If there is to be capital extracted from this little stretch of wildness, please let most of the money stay in town.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
This may or may not may not be a good idea, but will it be viable if the Main St monstrosity is EVER finished?
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Priscilla Bosworth
11 years ago
I do not feel that this is the right use for this property and believe that a hotel does not belong in this neighborhood.
We do not need another hotel. We are going to over built on hotels if we are not careful. The reality is not all of the propose hotels will be built. You have developers jockeying to get there project done first hoping others will decide not to move forward. What we need in this area is housing.
I continue to be appaulled at the council's negation of towns peoples needs and want serving naybe tax benefits and the wealthy. I say pack your bags council, we need young conscious and fir the goid of thw whoke representatives running this town. Stop treating cville like its new york. You've al ready destroyed traffic here. Its unredeemable. No to yet another unnecessary hotel. What are you thinking with??
So tired of people who don't look like me telling me what I need !
A hotel on that corner would go against the character of the Ridge Street neighborhood.
I would like City Council to require more greenspace between sidewalk and street when new construction happens. Current new construction on Main Street is too tall for the sense of community needed there. Please finish current new hotels in downtown before starting more.
This does not fit Fifeville......what's next closing the park!
Yes!!We need more development and possibly jobs
Petition
I'm in favor of slowing this process to allow all to be heard and their opinions considered, especially local residents. Thank you!
One councilor, Kristin Layng Szakos, has asserted that the petition is misleading (and therefore irrelevant...400 signatures total?) because the council is not voting on whether there should be a hotel or not. Technically, A hotel IS currently allowed there, that was decided years ago. What IS being voted on is whether council is going to make it easy for the developer (Southern Development) to build a big box hotel on the historic land by approving the amendment against the community's wishes or whether we will hold the developer to actually engage with the community, honor the historic nature of the land, honor the planning commission and neighborhood, stay with their original PUD or submit another. Asking council to reject this amendment is the only way to slow down Southern Development and potentially move to not have a big box hotel on the land. If a councilor tells you there is nothing that can be done, they aren't being truthful. Write Charlottesville City Council, contact a representative Dede Smith, Satyendra Huja,Kathleen GalvinBob Fenwick and attend the meeting Monday night 7:00.
Aside from the points made in the petition, why have a SECOND Marriot 3 blocks from the one currently being built?!
This hotel is not in keeping with the old and historic nature of the surrounding neighborhood. Please do not allow construction of this hotel on this proposed site.
No!
We do not need another hotel (after all we have the enormous hotel going up only a few blocks away on Main Street. Commercial overbuilding is the end of neighborhoods.
No more big Hotels!! I have lived in Charlottesville for the majority of my life. I do not think that we need another hotel. It will not help the immediate community reach its development potential, goes against the recommendations of the Planning Commision, totally lacks foresight and vision in its design! It will make low wage employees subservient to a big box commercial mentality. How does this project help to build an ownership society? This hotel will destroy a pocket of green space that has much more quality of life potential than a profit driven one size fits all development that will dominate the historic landscape that is the Ridge Street neighborhood and tower over the Tonsler Park area. No No NO. Let's let the other huge hotels be built and encourage more private rentals like air B and B!! That way the money flows to the citizens and stays local, not to multinational corporations who could care less about our town and neighborhoods.
I do not support a hotel.
Take all that money and fix the "LANDMARK HOTEL". I consider it a shame that "Random Row" was demolished. It was a community center, ie :a place available for people to meet/discuss/create/ perform, etc. At NO cost to the city (to my knowledge).
Please don't ruin this corner of our town. If there is to be capital extracted from this little stretch of wildness, please let most of the money stay in town.
This may or may not may not be a good idea, but will it be viable if the Main St monstrosity is EVER finished?
I do not feel that this is the right use for this property and believe that a hotel does not belong in this neighborhood.