The City of Charlottesville is currently preparing to hire a consultant to conduct a transportation study required as part of a settlement of a lawsuit against the city’s new Development Code. Plaintiffs had argued the city did not adequately review the effects that additional density would have on existing infrastructure.
In April 2022, Charlottesville was still under a zoning code approved in 2003. City Council voted that month to approve a rezoning on about 12 acres of land at the end of Stribling Avenue for 170 residential units. At the time, Southern Development agreed to contribute $2.9 million toward upgrades to the roadway to support pedestrian traffic.
The Fry’s Spring Neighborhood Association supported the rezoning with the caveat that the infrastructure would be in place before the new homes were built…