Charlottesville, Virginia, spent most of a decade revising its zoning code.

It held endless community meetings.

It gave opponents ample opportunity to make their case.

They lost.

But a handful of rich homeowners sued and have gotten the new Charlottesville zoning code overturned on a technicality

https://communityengagement.substack.com/p/june-30-2025-judge-worrell-voids?r=blgf

https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter/nine-charlottesville-residents-who-own-expensive-properties-are-suing-to-stop-upzoning/

9 millionaire homeowners, who couldn’t persuade Charlottesville residents and couldn’t win at the ballot box, decided they would throw everything they had to nullify their defeat.

And it worked

  • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Why would rural homeowners be filing a suit about a 10 square mile town they don’t live in?

    The population density for Charlottesville is over 4500/sq mile. Nobody there is living rurally.

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      20 hours ago

      It’s an expansion project. I guess that’s one way to tell me you can’t read.

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        7 hours ago

        You are writing fanfiction. First you made up that these home owners live rurally, then you made up that Charlottesville is somehow expanding beyond the borders of the town?? Being able to read doesn’t help you if you have no reading comprehension.