CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Charlottesville Circuit Judge Claude Worrell’s reconsideration of his June 30 summary judgement means the city gets its wish of White v. Charlottesville being decided on its merits. City Councilor Lloyd Snook has asserted to WINA Morning News the city looked into whether a traffic study needed to be done in association with the new zoning ordinance and VDOT didn’t even have a mechanism to do it for a city that has control of its own streets. However, plaintiff Roy Van Doorn told WINA’s The Schilling Show, “If you do a major subdivision, the city requires you do a traffic study.”
“Similarly, there’s a process the state has outlined that if you’re going to adopt a new zoning code, they want to know, and the surrounding communities and VDOT wants to know, what’s going to be the impact on roads”, Van Doorn said.
“It’s kind of like an island with Charlottesville an island and Albemarle County the sea, and the sea is all the VDOT roads. If you double the amount of boats you have in the harbor and you start sailing, it’s going to have an effect on the waterways.”…