Charlottesville can now go full speed ahead with implementation of a relatively new zoning code now that a lawsuit filed by a group of property owners has been settled.
On October 24, an attorney with the firm Flora Petit filed a motion for a nonsuit in Charlottesville Circuit Court. That ends any legal action as long as the city follows through on its agreement to prepare a traffic impact statement and submit it to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
“We have long believed that the most glaring deficiency in the process of passing the new Comprehensive Plan and the [new zoning ordinance] was a failure to plan for the impact of the NZO’s increased urban density on traffic congestion,” reads a statement from the group of plaintiffs.
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