William Taylor Plaza Petition

We need a development fitting this historic major gateway into the city. Another chain hotel is not the answer.

Enough is enough. If someone wants a hotel in the area so badly, there's a perfectly good useless husk of one on Main Street.

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!

I oppose to a Hotel/ Motel being built on Ridge St. & Cherry Ave. Thank you

So many of my neighbors are missing what really happened here. You can't blame this on the current City Council. A hotel was already approved for this corner in 2009 by a prior regime; Davids Norris & Brown +1 more I think. What the builder wants now is irrelevant to the hotel being allowed. They want to move a few of the underground parking spaces to behind the new building. I can't say I agree with everything Kendra wrote (every unfilled new job forces wages higher), but she's right about that this was done in 2009. I'm not sure whether a hotel here is a good thing or not. My heart says "slow down" and my head says that Charlottesville's livelihood depends heavily on tourists and UVA visitors. IMHO jobs and some life on Cherry = good; cutting down some trees = bad, but I doubt the hotel will give up if they don't get their few parking spaces moved like they want. They'll just build anyway because its already approved. If City Council gets some other concessions from Marriott in exchange for the parking changes then IMO they're making the best of the hand they were dealt.

I am revolted. Council relinquished its control over this site in 2009--and the developer immediately put the parcels up for SALE!!! Before being hoodwinked! bamboozled! councilors told city residents the development was needed to increase density, justifying investments in transit and other services that would improve their lives. How on earth is a Marriott, which will have no permanent residents supposed to meet the 2009 goals? Economic development, you say? You mean the massive boost that will be given to the neighborhood by the sudden availability of no-benefits service positions? Or do you mean the massive tax windfall to the city's coffers? Looking at the transformation of the West Main corridor and the travesty just erected at the coal tower site, it seems apparent there's NO megabucks megadevelopment council won't give the green light to. Farewell to the quirky, lovely city for which I had so much affection--a city that cared about history, the environment, and neighborhood character. Welcome Tysons South. Looks like I'm selling my house just in time.

The last thing Charlottesville needs - anywhere - is another hotel.

obviously, the city and all of its councillors are happy to let gentrification take its merry toll on the ever dwindling black & low-incme populations. will anything stop you?

Please continue community engagement .

I reject this idea and do not support another hotel!

The people are saying No! And I hope that council does too.

Charlottesville is selling out to the highest bidder and is becoming a caricature of itself. This is becoming the disneyland version of a small city. The development of community by forming neighborhoods with their own characteristics and balance rooted in the people who live there is being overtaken by high dollar investment money and ignoring or at best giving lip service to the concept of community and neighborhood. Money speaks. It is happening all over this city.

We don't need to be pushing more people out of Charlottesville. Leave Fifeville alone!

Will a Marriot brand hotel and residential development on the corner of Cherry and historic Ridge Street , starting with construction, improve equal education opportunity and equal employment opportunity? Present the facts.

I am signing for the reasons that many have already stated. If it was just a hotel it would already eliminate the benefits of the wooded area, increase the intersection traffic to unmanageable levels, and mar the aesthetic or the historic houses on Ridge Street. If there is also residential development, there is danger of further rent inflation in an area where more affordable housing has previously been available, increasing housing insecurity and gentrification. A big hotel is absolutely not needed at this location. There are plenty of new hotel rooms already being created nearer to downtown and UVA.

Our house is designated historic by city of Charlottesville. Why would you even consider build a hotel next to our 1832 house.

I asked city council months ago about this. Stating that I use to live on that corner years ago. Kristin Szakos said, to me, No. Mrs. Carey, there will be no hotel put up there now or in the future. We will have housing placed there before a hotel.

Having lived and worked previously in this neighborhood, with this lovely wooded area either in the backyard or in sight nearly every day, I was alarmed when the "For Sale" sign appeared there. First: a major sewer line runs through that land. Second: many small animals and birds have homes there. Third: that intersection is heavily trafficked already. Fourth: any multi-storied buildings will cut sunlight sources to the neighborhood. Fifth: high-density buildings and parking lots will destroy the natural sound buffer that the woodland creates. Sixth: this development would be the death blow for the Ridge Street Historic District. PLEASE respect and serve the Ridge Street Neighborhood Association and residents, and DO NOT proceed with this development.

I sign this petition in opposition to an anticipated yes-Vote of confidence by Cville city council to approve of an hotel site in Fifeville at the corner of Ridge St. And Cherry Avenue.

Against the building of a hotel