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Charlottesville, Virginia, lasted all zoning application permits last month A state judge agreed The zoning regulations that came into force in 2024.
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The regulation that the city councilor unanimously accepted In December 2023, among other things, the requirements for zoning and parking spaces for single -family houses and parking spaces removed for new developments.
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The new code should create more apartment density and to combat the crisis to the affordability of the city's apartments to combat the city, said, said, said, said, said, said, said Brian PinkstonCharlottesvilles Deputy Mayor, in an e -mail.
In 2023, Charlottesville joined A growing number of US cities and states, including MaineMontana, Colorado and Massachusetts to reform his zoning code in order to enable a larger apartment density, a movement that corresponds to the high costs for renting and buying a house. Minneapolis; GainesvilleFlorida; And CambridgeMassachusetts have removed all zone division of individual families and enables an apartment building in the city.
Charlottesville is home to the University of Virginia and attract a large number of students and experts, said Pinkston. But by 2024 the city had “a very restrictive zoning in relation to what could be built,” he said.
Charlottesville's regulation has updated the city's zoning card, which attributed regulations that require a certain number of parking spaces for residential developments and duplexes throughout the city, which effectively eliminates the single -family houses. The changes made it easier to build apartments and add the apartment density throughout the city, said Pinkston.
“We see it as an instrument to combat the crisis to afford the living space,” he said.
In some states and cities, these reforms have received a setback, including lawsuits. Six Colorado cities sued the state Through a few laws according to which municipalities make their local land usage regulations facilitate, for example to enable more housing.
A group of Charlottesville sued the residents Shortly after it passed his prescription and argued that The city did not follow the right process Before the takeover, the city explained on its website.
A judge of the Charlottesville Circuit Court Gave a delay judgment In the case on June 30, after the city's external lawyer did not respond to the applicant's changed complaint with a required period. The 2024 zoning regulations that the old man had replaced and left the city without presenting a zoning code, the city said.