Charlottesville settled a lawsuit that delayed its new zoning code allowing duplexes and triplexes. The city agreed to conduct traffic and infrastructure studies to address homeowner concerns and move forward with missing middle housing reforms. AI Summary
The home to the University of Virginia has ended a nightmare that left a new “missing middle” zoning code in limbo due to a legal technicality.
Charlottesville has settled a lawsuit with several homeowners who filed in January 2024, claiming the city didn’t follow proper procedure when it passed an ordinance in December 2023 that ended single-family zoning. The city, while not admitting wrongdoing, agreed to conduct traffic and infrastructure studies that the owners argued officials should have completed under state law before they approved the ordinance…