CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – As Charlottesville Circuit Judge Claude Worrell kept his June 30 summary judgement rendering the city’s 2024 development code “null and void”, but gave the city time to show its work on a traffic study inquiry, legal analyst Scott Goodman told WINA Morning News this case “is going to go on for a long, long time”. This as city leaders stand ready to pass the same code in short order, perhaps by the end of the year, pending the results of litigation. But Goodman said the plaintiffs in this case, who will have until Wednesday to answer what the city files Monday, appear to have no intent to give up even as city leaders state their clear intentions of instituting the code as soon as it can.
“We’re not planning to change not one iota part of that”, said Mayor JuanDiego Wade to CvilleRightNow.
“I think down the road, of course, there’s going to be amendments and changes to it. But that won’t be done as part of this.”…