CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE Department of Neighborhood Development Services City Hall Post Office Box 911 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 Telephone 434-970-3182 Fax 434-970-3359 www.charlottesville.org August 21, 2018 TO: Charlottesville Planning Commission, Neighborhood Associations & News Media Please Take Notice A Work Session of the Charlottesville Planning Commission will be held on Tuesday August 28, 2018 at 5:00pm CitySpace (100 5th Street NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902) AGENDA 1. 2018 Comprehensive Plan a. Review Draft Chapters 2. Public Comment cc: City Council Mike Murphy Alexander Ikefuna Planners Jeff Werner & Camie Mess Stacy Pethia, Tierra Howard, Lisa Robertson CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES MEMORANDUM To: Charlottesville Planning Commission From: Missy Creasy, Assistant Director Date: August 21, 2018 Re: Comprehensive Plan Chapters - Second Draft ______________________________________________________________________________________ The Chapter Champions were able to review and integrate community comments received on the Comprehensive Plan draft one chapters posted on line in June 2017 from the following sources: 1. Comments received via email, verbal and letters from June 2017 to present. 2. Comments provided at March and May 2018 Community meetings. Staff reviewed each comment and provided updates to the chapters based on feedback and changes since the original drafts were posted. Please note that the Land Use and Community Engagement chapters have not been included at this time as the Commission will need to provide additional guidance prior to development. The Commission will review these updates at the August 28, 2018 work session and it is anticipated that staff will be available to address questions. Attachments: Comp Plan Chapters – Second Draft Details of comments received (by chapter) 1 Key This new draft version shows the edits made to the previous draft of the Comprehensive Plan. Underline = New text (Sample) Strikethrough = Deleted text (Sample) Double strikethough = Text moved to different section (Sample) Double Underline = Text moved from a different section (Sample) COMMUNITY FACILITIES DRAFT CHAPTER AUG 2018 Vision The City of Charlottesville’s civic facilities and services are important to fostering a healthy and vibrant community. Residents benefit from access to excellent public services, recreational facilities and public buildings. Therefore, Charlottesville will have outstanding civic and recreational facilities, bicycle and walking trails and be served by a strong support system that includes one of the nation’s best emergency response systems. Effective and efficient water, wastewater and stormwater services will support the health and welfare of the City. Fire Protection Services Goal 1: To improve the quality of life in our community by consistently striving to provide superior fire and emergency services focused on prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. This will be accomplished through the development and cultivation of a safe, resilient and self-sufficient community. 1.1: Proactive identification and analysis of both community and organizational risks, and the development and implementation of effective strategies to address these risks. 1.2: Implement a comprehensive facilities master plan to maximize service delivery, safety, energy conservation and sustainability. 1.3: Maintain a fleet of emergency response vehicles appropriate for the delivery of rapid and effective emergency services in an increasingly more densely populated environment. 1.3 1.4: Provide an aggressive, comprehensive Community Risk Reduction program through fire and life safety education and effective fire code enforcement. 1.4 1.5 : Maintain a superior Insurance Service Office rating of Class 1 and accredited agency status through the Commission on Fire Accreditation International to ensure the city’s infrastructures supports the provision of adequate fire protection. 1.5 1.6 : Recommend and advocate for the installation of fire protection systems in all renovated and newly constructed buildings. Emergency Medical Services Goal 2: To support a resilient, safe community through the provision of the highest quality Emergency Medical Services focused on service delivery, patient outcomes, and responder health and safety. 2.1: Adopt and implement an EMS strategy to ensure an appropriate level of EMS first response and transport capability leveraging both career and volunteer resources. 2.2: Maintain a fleet of emergency response vehicles appropriate for the delivery of rapid and effective emergency services in an increasingly more densely populated environment. 2.3: Fully leverage current and future technologies to achieve the most effective resource distribution and unit reliability (such as Automated Vehicle Locators, Mobile Data Computers and Global Information Services). 2.4: Ensure adequate facilities exist for the effective deployment of EMS resources in the community. 2.5: Create adequate facilities that support initial and on-going education and training for EMS providers, and professional development. Police Department Goal 3: Secure adequate facility space, equipment, and staff for the Police Department and its operations to continue providing safety and protection to Charlottesville residents. 3.1: Identify and obtain a new permanent, centralized facility for the Police Department which will address current and future operational, space, storage and parking needs. 3.2: Identify and obtain a location which will provide adequate space for a Regional Training Facility which can be shared with other local law enforcement agencies. 3.3: Purchase and implement needed technology for the Police Department and its operations. 3.4: Identify and obtain locations throughout the city for police substations that will increase our efforts in community policing. 3.5: Upgrade the quality of vehicles purchased by the Police Department that will better suit our operational needs. 3.6: Purchase and implement security upgrades for the Police Department that include a video monitoring system of our facility as well as adjacent areas. Water Infrastructure Goal 4: Improve the water system infrastructure to provide reliable, healthy, and efficient water service to City residents and address capacity needs within the City as part of any improvements. 4.1: Maintain, repair, and replace water lines where necessary to minimize emergency operations and maintenance. 4.2: Map, inspect, and inventory the existing infrastructure, assess the condition of water facilities, and identify actions that can be taken to improve the hydraulic conditions of the water network. 4.3: Continue to implement the recommended improvements for increased capacity, fire protection, and redundancy of systems by replacing and/or upsizing water lines as outlined in the City’s Water Prioritization Study. 4.4: Ensure that all applications for increased capacity are analyzed to discern adequate water line capacity and water meter sizing in the review process. 4.5: Identify sources of non‐revenue water and focus efforts in reducing those water losses. 4.6: Support and coordinate efforts with the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority and the Albemarle County Service Authority to provide a more efficient distribution and treatment system. 4.7: Coordinate timing of improvements with similar efforts to complete Streets that Work plan priorities where possible. Wastewater Infrastructure Goal 5: Improve wastewater infrastructure to provide effective sanitary sewer services to residents, to accommodate the increased projected densities and uses in the City, and to protect public health and water quality. 5. 1: Maintain, repair, and replace sanitary sewer lines where necessary to minimize emergency operations and maintenance. 5.2: Map, inspect, and inventory the existing infrastructure, assess the condition of these facilities, and identify actions that can be taken to improve the conditions of the wastewater network, especially the capacity of the sewer system in prime development areas. 5.3: Emphasize the annual maintenance of wastewater facilities and continue to identify and complete improvement projects. This includes, but is not limited to, increasing the size of pipes to enlarge the system’s capacity, relocating main lines that were built on private property, or building new main lines to extend the system. 5.4: Continue to improve sanitary sewer infrastructure to eliminate sanitary sewer overflows and reduce infiltration and inflow. 5.5: Design and replace the 14th/15th Street Collector sewer line. The sewer line currently exceeds capacity and will be receiving significant additional flow from developments currently under construction and planned development in this area. 5.6: Support and coordinate efforts with the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority and the Albemarle County Service Authority to provide a safe and reliable sanitary sewer collection and treatment system. 5.7 Coordinate timing of improvements with similar efforts to complete Streets that Work plan priorities where possible. Stormwater Conveyance Infrastructure Goal 6: Improve stormwater conveyance infrastructure to provide a safe and effective public drainage system while mitigating the water resources impacts of said infrastructure. 6.1: Map, inspect, and inventory the stormwater conveyance network to assess the condition, configuration, location, and extents of the stormwater conveyance infrastructure to facilitate strategic actions to maintain and improve the condition and integrity of the network. 6.2: Rehabilitate, repair, and replace public stormwater conveyance infrastructure both preventively and reactively to promote sustainable stewardship of the stormwater conveyance system. 6.3: Modernize, on a case-by-case basis, the stormwater conveyance system to achieve compliance with current local and state engineering standards, specifications, and best practices. 6.4: Ensure that proposed additions and modifications to the existing stormwater conveyance infrastructure network are implemented in a way that addresses deficiencies of the existing infrastructure. 6.5: Incorporate, as is practicable, water quality improvements and measures that lessen the impact to receiving water bodies when improvements are made to stormwater conveyance infrastructure. 6.6: Continue to advance the understanding of best policy and practice related to the City’s public/private stormwater conveyance system with the goal of integrating public responsibility and private needs. 6.7: Coordinate timing of improvements with similar efforts to complete Streets that Work plan priorities where possible. 6.8: Implement goals in the Urban Forest Management Plan and development and site plan reviews to ensure trees are utilized as one tool in stormwater management strategies. Gas Infrastructure Goal 7: Maintain the existing gas system within City and County limits, expand the system to new development, and provide a safe and efficient service for the community. 7.1: Map, inspect, and inventory the existing infrastructure, assess the condition of these facilities, and identify actions that can be taken to improve the conditions of the natural gas network. 7.2: Continue to promote public awareness regarding gas safety and reduce third party damages to the gas system. 7.3: Continue to expand the natural gas system within the designated growth areas to target the home improvement and new development markets, as well as existing homes that may not have natural gas service. 7.4: Coordinate timing of improvements with similar efforts to complete Streets that Work plan priorities where possible. Parks and Recreation (Upgrades) Goal 8: Upgrade existing park and recreation infrastructure to modern standards and address the value and uses of natural areas. 8.1: Develop and apply as appropriate system‐wide design standards. 8.2: Improve the overall aesthetics of park sites through signage, landscaping, parking lot and safety improvements that also include area lighting and trash receptacles in appropriate locations. 8.3: Create resource management plans to support and maintain natural areas and create a new core recreation service in environmental education to educate users on the value of these natural areas.* 8.4: Update recreation amenities and refurbish existing restrooms and drinking fountains. 8.5: When possible, parks should provide a cross functional benefit for the City’s environmental goals. Parks and Recreation (Expansion) Goal 9: Expand current inventory of park facilities Examine the feasibility of creating a regional park authority in conjunction with City/County planning efforts.* 9.2: Prioritize and encourage acquisition of natural areas, particularly along existing and proposed trails, through developer contributions and fee simple purchase. 9.3: Encourage the acquisition of land that serves a cross functional purpose as parkland/public space and the development of green infrastructure and prioritize land acquisition. 9.4: Add additional rectangular fields to the parks and recreation network.* 9.5: Add fenced, smaller, flexible athletic fields designed to accommodate multiple recreational uses. Parks and Recreation (Use) Goal 10: Promote efficient use of all park properties and recreation facilities. 10.1: Create a Parks and Recreation system wide Master Plan for the City, align current and future park master plans, and continue to evaluate and adjust programs to align all program lifecycles and establish new programs. 10.2: Enhance multimodal access to parks.* 10.3: Incorporate best design practices for creating multiple, complimentary uses in urban scale parks while following best practices for the stewardship of the parks’ historic resources. Parks and Recreation (Best Practices) Goal 11: Adopt customized park and recreation facility standards that support a livable community for the City and its partnering agencies, and perform consistent maintenance on all parks and recreation facilities. 11.1: Implement facility standards that support the recreation needs of the community and region. 11.2: Continue to pursue partnerships to meet City and Departmental service delivery goals. 11.3: Establish maintenance standards and frequencies for all park facilities, trails and recreation facilities in the system. 11.4: Communicate park maintenance standards to users of parks and recreation facilities. 11.5: Continue to include more kinetic and/or creative play modules and equipment in city playgrounds. Key This new draft version shows the edits made to the previous draft of the Comprehensive Plan. Underline = New text (Sample) Strikethrough = Deleted text (Sample) Double strikethough = Text moved to different section (Sample) Double Underline = Text moved from a different section (Sample) ECONOMIC SUSTAINABLITY DRAFT CHAPTER AUG 2018 Vision A strong economy is essential to the social, cultural and financial vitality of our city. Public and private initiatives help create employment opportunities and a vibrant and sustainable economy. The City of Charlottesville is committed to creating a strong, diversified economy and an environment that provides career ladder employment opportunities for residents. At its best, Charlottesville is a community with an effective workforce development system and a business-friendly environment that supports entrepreneurship; innovation; heritage tourism; and commercial, mixed use, and infill development; and access to a growing array of diverse employment and career ladder opportunities for all. The Downtown Mall, as the economic hub of the region, features a vibrant historic district with arts and entertainment, shopping, dining, cultural events, and a dynamic City Market. Innovation Goal 1: Create an entrepreneurial environment that fosters the creation and success of businesses.* 1.1: Work with partners to help entrepreneurs identify locations/sites where they can successfully start and grow their companies.* 1.2: Continue partnerships with the University of Virginia, and its affiliated groups in order to maximize the business assistance resources available to entrepreneurs and expand innovative industry locations in Charlottesville.* 1.3: Partner with community organizations to provide relevant training opportunities for startup businesses.* 1.4: Work strategically to continue to develop and implement land use policies and regulations that ensure the availability of sites for business growth and expansion.* Sustaining Business Goal 2: Generate, recruit, and retain successful businesses. 2.1: In order to retain existing businesses, develop and implement a talent development strategy to attract skilled professionals to Charlottesville. 2.2: Continue business visitation program to regularly assess the health of our existing businesses. 2.3: Partner with business assistance agencies and local non‐profits to provide training opportunities that will help businesses achieve greater success.* 2.4: Increase the number of SWaM certified businesses that are registered vendors with the City of Charlottesville 2.5: Work with Albemarle County and local educational institutions to ensure that economic and workforce development efforts are appropriately aligned to foster business recruitment and retention in the Charlottesville area. 2.6: Continue methods of delivering business assistance to customers that use the latest technology. 2.7: Develop and implement a marketing effort that informs residents and businesses about the products and services offered by the City of Charlottesville Office of Economic Development. Partnerships Goal 3: Build partnerships with private sector groups in order to maximize strategic capital investment in targeted areas in the City. 3.1: Encourage the development of the City’s key commercial corridors and surrounding sites (such as West Main Street, Preston Avenue, Harris Street and Cherry Avenue).* 3.2: Proactively participate in planning and development studies such as small area plans, particularly as they relate to economic development opportunities in strategic areas throughout the City.* 3.3: Participate with internal and external stakeholders to implement the Strategic Investment Area plan. 3.4: Align zoning ordinances to facilitate economic activity in new areas of commercial opportunity identified in the updated future land use map.* 3.5: Work to ensure that newly aligned City ordinances and regulations balance the need to promote development opportunities and competing interests.* 3.6: Explore appropriate incentives for development projects with significant economic impact, with particular emphasis on target industries and those industries that directly address the need for more career ladder job opportunities that will help move City residents towards self‐sufficiency (e.g., light manufacturing, semi‐skilled trades, etc.). * Tourism Goal 4: Increase tourism to help expand the positive economic impact visitors have on the City. 4.1: “Continue collaborative engagement with partners, stakeholders and influencers in the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, to raise awareness of the area’s rich artistic, ethnic, cultural, and lifestyle LBGTQ community’s diversity through marketing that inspires travel from out-of-area. As the official destination marketing organization for both the city and county, this engagement is ongoing.” 4.2: Seek out opportunities for public‐private partnerships in the provision of infrastructure that supports the tourism industry. 4.3: Explore ways of creating recreational access routes to our community’s heritage and cultural sites to enhance their efforts on Charlottesville’s economy. Downtown Mall Goal 5: Maintain the economic vitality of the Downtown Mall and surrounding areas. 5.1: Monitor the need for additional parking as new development occurs, with particular attention to parking needs downtown and along the West Main corridor. 5.2: Partner with University of Virginia and all other adjacent property owners and residents for continued implementation of the West Main Street Plan. 5.3: Continue to encourage private sector developers to implement plans from the commercial corridor study. 5.4: Evaluate the effects of mixed‐use development and changing demographics on the downtown area and continue to support and maintain the Downtown Mall as the economic and cultural hub of the City. Workforce Goal 6: Be an effective partner in creating a well-prepared and successful workforce. 6.1: Continue to explore programs for City of Charlottesville youth that will expose them to the principles of financial literacy, economics, and entrepreneurship. 6.2: Provide support for educational programs that will prepare City students for 21st century jobs in our area’s target industries.* 6.3: Develop educational programs/training that target jobs that are in high demand to ensure that the local workforce has the qualifications needed to find employment within these industries.* 6.4: Explore programs/initiatives that offer skilled trades training for City residents. Nurture and expand employment opportunities within this industry.* 6.5: Partner with local workforce service providers to offer retraining opportunities for City residents in order to increase their chances of gaining employment in new and emerging industries. 6.6: In collaboration with workforce development agencies in the area, provide recruitment events/activities (e.g., job fairs, conferences, etc.) that connect employers with potential employees of all ages and skill levels. 6.6: Collaborate with workforce service providers to help City residents overcome barriers to employment such as basic education and training, transportation, childcare, etc. 6.7: Continue to operate the Charlottesville Downtown Job Center to ensure that all City residents have access to employment services and training opportunities that will help them meet local employers’ workforce needs. 6.8: Continue to implement the Workforce Development Strategic Action Team report, “Growing Opportunity: A Path to Self‐Sufficiency in Charlottesville.” Key This new draft version shows the edits made to the previous draft of the Comprehensive Plan. Underline = New text (Sample) Strikethrough = Deleted text (Sample) Double strikethough = Text moved to different section (Sample) Double Underline = Text moved from a different section (Sample) URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY DRAFT CHAPTER AUG 2018 Vision Charlottesville will be a “Green City,” with clean and healthy air and water, sustainable neighborhoods, ample open space and natural areas that balance increased development and density in residential and economic centers, and walkable, bikeable, and transit supportive land use patterns that encourage healthy lifestyles. Urban Landscape & Habitat Enhancement Goal 1: Pursue a healthy, interconnected urban ecosystems, including a robust urban forest that delivers valuable ecosystem services that deliver valuable ecosystem services. 1.1: Use green infrastructure to improve stormwater management, flood mitigation, air and water quality, habitat, connectivity, livability, and aesthetics. 1.2: Improve stream and vegetated buffer conditions to increase wildlife and aquatic habitat, groundwater recharge and stream base flow, decrease stream temperature, provide a food source for aquatic organisms, improve water quality by decreasing sedimentation, and improve environmental aesthetics. 1.3: Promote and participate in programs to establish conservation or open space easements of forested stream‐side lands to ensure permanent protection. Goal 2: Promote practices that contribute to a robust urban forest. 1.42.1: Continue to implement the Urban Forest Management Plan to protect quality of air, water and lands, manage stormwater, provide shading and absorb CO2 with an emphasis including on addressing invasive species, diversity, and distribution. 1.52.2: Continue to Monitor, and track protect and expand changes in the urban tree canopy cover both at the citywide level and at the neighborhood level to inform planning and management. 1.62.3: Include trees, as practicable, in all city priority streetscape plans (e.g., framework streets, safe routes to school, Strategic Investment Areas); work to preserve existing healthy trees whenever streets are modified. 2.4: Develop methods, including financial incentives, to support retaining and increasing healthy tree canopy on private lands. 2.5: Study site plan requirements to update them with increased tree protection elements. 1.7 2.6: Use the 2017 Green Infrastructure Possible Planting Areas analysis as a guide to tree planting efforts to inform efforts aimed at tree planning opportunities. Goal 3: Support diverse native plant communities and wildlife habitats as a core function of the urban landscape. 1.8 3.1 Continue public stewardship of city lands and associated habitats through showcase conservation and improvement projects and education. 1.9 3.2: Plant and promote use of regionally-adapted, native, and drought tolerant plants, including as part of turf-to-forest conversions and pollinator gardens.* 3.3: Support the conservation of local and regional biodiversity, and promote the protection and enhancement of natural plant communities and wildlife habitat. 3.4: Manage invasive plant and animal species in support of healthy native plant and animal communities. Water Resources Protection Goal 2 4: Protect, enhance, and restore the integrity of the City’s water resources. 2.1 4.1: Continue to implement the Water Resources Protection Program (WRPP) to meet a range of water resources goals and challenges; including regulatory compliance, stormwater conveyance infrastructure rehabilitation, drainage issues, and water quality stewardship. 2.2 4.2: Implement the Water Resources Master Plan capital improvement programs (CIPs) to make drainage and water quality improvements and comply with federal and state‐mandated pollutant reductions required as part of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). 2.3 4.3: Repair, enhance, and maintain the City’s stormwater management and conveyance infrastructure, utilizing green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) where practicable. 2.4: Develop a strategy to improve maintenance of City owned structural stormwater management facilities. 2.5: Implement stormwater conveyance infrastructure improvements in a manner that minimizes, as practicable, the impacts on receiving water resources. 2.6 4.5: Explore the appropriateness of watershed scale compliance strategies to meet project and site specific stormwater management regulatory requirements without exacerbating adverse impacts to waterways with existing water quality impairments. 2.7 4.6: Reduce loss of open waterways and associated natural habitats by discouraging Discourage additional underground piping of city streams; encouraging daylighting of piped streams. 2.8 4.7: Educate, encourage, and incentivize Encourage property owners to implement water resources stewardship practices, with a focus on retrofitting sites that through incentives, stormwater utility fee credits, and other programs lack adequate stormwater treatment. 2.9 4.8: Provide technical assistance and educational outreach regarding water resources stewardship for private property owners. 4.9: Collaborate and cooperate with Rivanna watershed stakeholders, including Albemarle County, University of Virginia, residents, businesses, developers and community groups focusing on watershed and stormwater management, including education and outreach efforts 4.10: Continue public acquisition of natural areas along waterways to enable management strategies that protect water and habitat quality. Goal 5: Value the Rivanna River as a major natural asset with unique waterfront opportunities. 5.1: Promote a harmonious balance of riverine ecosystem services, recreation, and development that supports health, safety, and prosperity. 2.10: Value the Rivanna River as a major asset in the life of our city and region and restore it to a healthy condition within our ecosystem in order to improve habitat, watershed health and water quality, and recreation. 5.2: Restore the Rivanna River to a healthy condition within our ecosystem through improvement of habitat, watershed health and water quality. 2.11 5.3: Develop an action-oriented Rivanna River Corridor Plan in conjunction with Albemarle County and other watershed localities.* 2.12: Continue collaboration and cooperation with Rivanna Watershed stakeholders, including Albemarle County, University of Virginia, residents, businesses, developers and community groups focusing on watershed and stormwater management, including education and outreach efforts. 2.135.4: Ensure that planning for future land and recreational uses along the Rivanna River adequately protects water quality. 2.15 Continue public acquisition of natural areas along waterways to enable management strategies that protect water and habitat quality. Goal 6: Reduce community greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the overall carbon footprint, thereby safeguarding human and planetary health. 6.1: Set an ambitious GHG emissions reduction goal in line with the Paris Climate Agreement ; establish intermediate goals to be tracked via regular updates to the GHG emission inventory. 6.2: Per the commitments made by joining the Compact of Mayors (now merged with Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy) in 2017, publically report GHG inventory data for the city as well as climate hazards and vulnerabilities faced by the city, set a GHG emissions reduction goal, and develop a climate action plan to address climate change mitigation and adaptation. 6.3: Develop a climate action plan and GHG emissions reduction goal that spans community sectors, geographic boundaries, and emissions sources (i.e., energy use, waste, and transportation) and engages a diverse group of stakeholders 6.4: Develop a climate action plan that acknowledges the inherent integration of city and county infrastructure (e.g., transportation planning) and the need for cohesive plans. 6.5: City government should lead by example on implementing emissions reduction strategies and actively engage with key community sectors including residential, commercial, and institutional on action and education strategies. 6.6: Improve energy performance of existing buildings community-wide which, in aggregate, present greater opportunity as compared to new buildings; leverage resources with local partners. 6.7: Promote effective and innovative energy and fuel management in both City and community buildings and operations. 6.8: Pursue and promote cleaner sources of electrical energy (e.g., renewable energy strategies). Goal 3: Encourage high performance, green building standards and practices and the use of the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED certification program, Earthcraft, Energy Star, or other similar systems. 6.9: Encourage new development to design, construct, and operate with a reduced emissions footprint by encouraging high performance, green buildings, green sites, and green neighborhood standards and practices such as the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED certification program, Earthcraft, Energy Star, or other similar systems. 6.10: Promote compact block and street networks and a built environment that facilitates walking, biking, and bus riding to diminish reliance on single occupancy vehicles and reduce GHG emissions. 6.11: Reduce vehicle‐related emissions through increased fuel efficiency, reduced vehicle miles traveled, fleet downsizing, anti‐idling efforts and use of alternative fuel sources. 3.1 6.12: As appropriate, create policy and financial incentives to encourage increased building and site performance that reduce GHG emissions and the city’s overall carbon footprint. Resource Efficiency Goal 4: Promote effective and innovative energy and fuel management in both City and community buildings and operations. 4.1: Reduce energy demand and increase energy efficiency community‐wide by an average of 30% by 2050 (using a baseline year of 2000); support and collaborate with local energy efficiency partners and stakeholders. 4.2: Pursue and promote cleaner sources of electrical energy (e.g., renewable energy strategies). 4.3: Reduce vehicle‐related emissions through increased fuel efficiency, reduced vehicle miles traveled, fleet downsizing, anti‐idling efforts and use of alternative fuels (e.g., compressed natural gas, biodiesel, or electric vehicle technology). 4.4: Track greenhouse gas emissions in City operations and the community and strategically explore and implement initiatives to achieve emissions reductions. Water Conservation Goal 5 Goal 7: Promote and implement citywide water efficiency. 5.1 7.1: Continue evaluating water use in city buildings and other operations to identify conservation opportunities. 5.2 7.2: Maintain an extensive community focused outreach campaign through education and incentive programs to maintain or further decrease average consumption. 5.3 7.3: Explore opportunities with community partners to accomplish water efficiency. Materials Recovery and Waste Management Goal 6 Goal 8: Promote and implement strategies for sustainable materials management to decrease environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions. 6.1 8.1: Continue to explore opportunities to expand public and private recycling (including appliance collection), composting, source reduction, other waste stream diversion, and other waste management innovations. 6.2 8.2: Maintain lines of communication with neighborhood and business associations, major employers and representatives of high density housing districts so that solid waste management services are adaptably delivered to promote economic development, enhanced walkability, public health and safety, landfill diversion, and compliance with all federal and local requirements. Resilient Local Food System Goal 9: Increase resiliency of and opportunities for local food systems and urban agriculture. 9.1: Evaluate recommended standards for open space and how those could be implemented to support urban agriculture production and food availability, especially to low income populations. 9.2: Promote and protect green and urban agriculture spaces distributed throughout the city for the sustainable production of locally grown foods or community gardens; leverage resources with local partners. 9.3: Define a process to allow for expanded community and shared gardens. 9.4: Promote sustainable resource strategies for urban agriculture (e.g., nutrient inputs, efficient irrigation). Goal 10: Support other goals and objectives within the Comprehensive Plan whose co-benefits align with and further Urban Environmental Sustainability priorities and the Green City vision. Key This new draft version shows the edits made to the previous draft of the Comprehensive Plan. Underline = New text (Sample) Strikethrough = Deleted text (Sample) Double strikethough = Text moved to different section (Sample) Double Underline = Text moved from a different section (Sample) HOUSING DRAFT CHAPTER AUG 2018 Vision The quality and diversity of the City’s housing stock is the basis for viable neighborhoods and thriving communities. To be a truly world class city, Charlottesville must provide quality, affordable housing opportunities that meet the needs are affordable and attainable for people of all residents, including those of middle income households incomes, racial and ethnic backgrounds, life stages, and abilities. To meet that need, and ensure the environmental sustainability of our communities, Charlottesville’s neighborhoods will feature a variety of housing types and sizes, affordable to all income levels; and located within convenient walking, biking or transit distances of enhanced community amenities including: mixed-use, barrier free, high density pedestrian and transit- oriented developments near employment and cultural centers, with connections to facilities, parks, trails and services. Goal 1: Preserve the City’s existing housing stock for residents of all income levels* 1.1: Preserve and improve the quality and quantity of the existing housing stock through the renovation, rehabilitation and/or expansion of existing units as a means of enhancing neighborhood stability. 1.2 Continue supporting the City’s tax relief programs to enhance housing affordability for low-income, senior and disabled households homeowners. 1.3 Promote programs, such as the City’s Home Improvement Program, that provide financial support for residents to renovate their homes to meet changing family needs.* 1.4 Promote the Design for Life C’ville program that provides a rebate of permit fees for incorporation of visit-ability and live-ability design features.* Grow the City’s Housing Stock Goal 2: Provide new housing options for residents of all income levels. 2.1: Continue working toward the City’s goals goal of 15% supported affordable housing by 2025. 2.2: Incorporate affordable housing units throughout the City, to enhance community sustainability and diversity. 2.3 Encourage creation of new, on-site affordable housing as part of the residential portions of rezoning or special use permit applications with an emphasis on provision of affordable housing for those with the greatest need households with incomes no greater than 50% of area median income.* 2.4 Promote housing options to accommodate both renters and owners at all price points, including moderately priced housing. 2.5 Explore, develop and implement a program promoting and encouraging the use of accessory dwelling units as affordable housing options. Importance of Incentives Goal 3: Establish a series of incentives to create new affordable, mixed-income, accessible and environmentally sustainable housing and a variety of housing types beyond the urban corridors and in small area plans. 3.1: Create a landlord risk reduction fund to encourage private market landlords to provide affordable rental housing units. 3.2: Waive developer fees for residential developments including a minimum 15% (of total housing units) on-site affordable housing units. 3.3: Identify, and prioritize the use of, all allowable land use and planning tools, including increased density, in an effort to stimulate affordable housing development. 3.4: Examine the feasibility of implementing a tax credit program for landlords renting affordable housing units in the City of Charlottesville. 3.5 Implement an Affordable Housing Program, a compilation of all allowable land use, zoning and planning tools to promote and support the development of affordable housing, including: increased density, reduced setbacks, an expanded ranges of allowable housing types, and reduced parking requirements. Funding Initiatives Goal 4: Establish and/or promote an assortment of funding initiatives to meet the housing needs of households with varying levels of income.* 4.1: Continue supporting the use of Low Income Housing Tax Credit program proposals for the creation of affordable rental units.* 4.2: Continue funding programs providing assistance to those unable to afford market rate housing options in the City.* 4.3: Promote long-term affordability of housing units through the use of various tools, such as deed restrictions, deed covenants and community land trusts. 4.4: Evaluate the merits of establishing tax deferral programs to encourage the preservation or development of affordable rental housing, as well as lessening financial burdens for homebuyers earning less than 30% of area median income. 4.5: Promote the Special Tax Rate program for residential properties that become or are developed as 30% more energy efficient than statewide building code. 4.6: Continue offering reduced water and sewer meter connection fees for affordable housing. 4.7: Continue annual allocations of Capital Improvement Funds to the Charlottesville Affordable Housing Fund. Goal 4: Explore progressive and innovative zoning regulation and land use reforms to support the development of affordable housing. 4.1: Update the zoning ordinance to include an Affordable Housing Program. 4.2: Evaluate the effectiveness of existing planning and zoning tools, such as Planned Unit Developments and Special Use Permits, in promoting the development of affordable and mixed-income housing. 4.3: Evaluate effects of all land use and zoning regulations on affordable and mixed use housing to ensure they will not unduly restrict mixed-income and mixed-use redevelopment. Provide ongoing evaluations of all policies and ordinance relative to housing. Support Partnerships Goal 5: Support projects and public/private partnerships for affordable housing projects, including moderately priced housing, and mixed-use/mixed-income developments. 5.1: Encourage major employers to create a city-wide Employer Assisted Housing Program to assist the local workforce in obtaining affordable or market-rate housing near their places of work. 5.2: Support redevelopment of public and/or other subsidized housing to re-integrate those properties into existing neighborhoods. Support the Resident Bill of Rights as formally adopted, where appropriate. 5.3: Work in cooperation with local governments and regional agencies to promote a regional fair share approach to providing affordable housing. 5.4: Support housing programs at the local and regional level that encourage mixed-income neighborhoods and discourage the isolation of very low and low income households. Goal 5: Establish and/or promote an assortment of funding initiatives to meet the housing needs of households with varying levels of income.* 5.1: Continue supporting the use of Low Income Housing Tax Credit program proposals for the creation of affordable rental units.* 5.2: Continue funding programs providing assistance to those unable to afford market rate housing options in the City including persons who are homeless and at-risk of homelessness.* 5.3: Promote long-term affordability of housing units through the use of various tools, such as deed restrictions, deed covenants and community land trusts. 5.4: Evaluate the merits of establishing tax deferral programs to encourage the preservation or development of affordable rental housing, as well as lessening financial burdens for homebuyers earning less than 30% of area median income. 5.5: Promote the Special Tax Rate program for residential properties that become or are developed as 30% more energy efficient than statewide building code. 5.6: Continue offering reduced water and sewer meter connection fees for affordable housing. 5.7: Continue annual allocations of Capital Improvement Funds to the Charlottesville Affordable Housing Fund. Goal 6: Offer a range of housing options to meet the needs of Charlottesville’s residents, including those presently underserved. 6.1: Ensure affordable housing is similar to market rate housing in design and other physical features, allowing affordable units to blend into existing neighborhoods. 6.2: Encourage the use of the of the Design for Life C’ville program to promote and expand visitability/live-ability features and market inclusion.* 6.3: Evaluate the impact of development on affordable housing opportunities for underserved and vulnerable populations including low-income, elderly, disabled and homeless individuals and families, and implement measures to minimize displacement as the City continues to grow. 6.4: Expand use of supportive housing options, such as rapid rehousing or permanently supportive housing programs, which allow homeless, near homeless and other special needs populations independent living options.* 6.5: Support enforcement of the federal Fair Housing Act to provide equal access to housing and prevent unfair housing practices Goal 6: Prevent and end homelessness 6.1: Use the best practice approach of housing first, which places people experiencing homelessness into housing as rapidly as possible and provides wrap around services to help them maintain their housing. 6.2: Provide permanent supportive housing (PSH) for persons with disabilities who are homeless or at- risk of homelessness 6.3: Prevent homelessness through safety net supports and social services to enable residents to maintain their housing. Goal 7: Increase the energy and water efficiency, and environmental sustainability, of the City’s housing stock. 7.1: Encourage the incorporation of green sustainable principles (e.g. LEED, EarthCraft Virginia, Energy Star, etc.) in all housing development to the maximum extent feasible both as a way to be more sustainable and to lower housing costs. 7.2: Demonstrate the value of energy and water upgrades in residential developments. 7.3: Develop an energy/water improvement program and/or strategies to increase housing affordability for low and moderate income households. 7.4: Create a public outreach /education campaign promoting existing Green Building programs and incentives for multifamily housing. Goal 7: Support projects and public/private partnerships for affordable housing projects, including moderately priced housing, and mixed-use/mixed-income developments. 7.1: Encourage major employers to create a city-wide Employer Assisted Housing Program to assist the local workforce in obtaining affordable or market-rate housing near their places of work. 7.2: Support redevelopment of public and/or other subsidized housing to re-integrate those properties into existing neighborhoods. Support the Resident Bill of Rights as formally adopted once the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority begins redevelopment efforts. 7.3: Work in cooperation with local governments and regional agencies to promote a regional fair share approach to providing affordable housing. 7.4: Support housing programs at the local and regional level that encourage mixed-income neighborhoods and discourage the isolation of very low and low income households. Goal 8: Ensure the City’s housing portfolio offers a wide range of choices that are integrated and balanced across the City, and which meet multiple City goals including: community sustainability, walkability, bikeability, public transit use, increased support for families with children, fewer pockets of poverty, access to local jobs, thriving local businesses, and decreased student vehicle use.* 8.1: Encourage mixed-use and mixed-income housing developments throughout the City’s neighborhoods. 8.2: Link housing options, transportation, and employment opportunities in City land use decisions.* 8.3: Encourage housing development where increased density is desirable and strive to connect those areas to employment opportunities, transit routes and commercial services.* 8.4: Promote environmentally sustainable patterns of development, as well as economic and job creation, in relatively underinvested, financially depressed areas. 8.5: Promote redevelopment and infill development that supports bicycle and pedestrian-oriented infrastructure and robust public transportation to better connect residents to jobs and commercial activity.* 8.6: Through community engagement efforts, develop small-area plans that lay the groundwork for transportation-oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhoods, within the context of the broader vision for Charlottesville.* 8.7: Through public outreach efforts, provide information about the benefits of/opportunities for patterns of urban living, such as more efficient land use, shared public space, smaller more energy efficient units, and walkability. Assess the effectiveness of efforts and examples.* 8.8: Improve access for lower-income households to adult learning and employment opportunities, job training, health food sources, and public amenities, such as parks and recreational facilities, shopping destinations, and libraries with the goals of reducing family isolation, deconcentrating poverty, and enhancing neighborhood and school health, and economic mobility. Goal 8: Offer a range of housing options to meet the needs of Charlottesville’s residents, including those presently underserved. 8.1: Ensure affordable housing is similar to market rate housing in design and other physical features, allowing affordable units to blend into existing neighborhoods. 8.2: Encourage the use of the Design for Life C’ville program to promote and expand visit- ability/live- ability features and market inclusion.* 8.3: Evaluate the impact of development on affordable housing opportunities for underserved and vulnerable populations including low-income, elderly, disabled and homeless individuals and families, and implement measures to minimize displacement as the City continues to grow. 8.4: Expand use of supportive housing options, such as rapid rehousing or permanently supportive housing programs, which allow homeless, near homeless and other special needs populations independent living options.* 8.5: Enforce the federal Fair Housing Act to provide equal access to housing and prevent unfair housing practices. Goal 9: Increase the energy and water efficiency, and environmental sustainability, of the City’s housing stock. 9.1: Encourage the incorporation of green sustainable principles (e.g. LEED, EarthCraft Virginia, Energy Star, etc.) in all housing development to the maximum extent feasible both as a way to be more sustainable and to lower housing costs. 9.2: Demonstrate the value of energy and water upgrades in residential developments. 9.3: Develop an energy/water improvement program and/or strategies to increase housing affordability for low and moderate income households. 9.4: Create a public outreach /education campaign promoting existing Green Building programs and incentives for multifamily housing. 9.5: Encourage the incorporation of food access avenues (e.g., affordable stores, agriculture space such as greenhouses, school and community, neighborhood farmers markets) in all housing developments to the maximum extent feasible both to increase self-sufficiency and as a way to be more sustainable and to increase access to food. Goal 10: Ensure the City’s housing portfolio offers a wide range of choices that are integrated and balanced across the City, and which meet multiple City goals including: community sustainability, walkability, bikeability, public transit use, increased support for families with children, fewer pockets of poverty, access to food, access to local jobs, thriving local businesses, and decreased student vehicle use.* 10.1: Encourage mixed-use and mixed-income housing developments throughout the City’s neighborhoods. 10.2: Link housing options, transportation, food access, and employment opportunities in City land use decisions.* 10.3: Encourage housing development where increased density is desirable and strive to connect those areas to employment opportunities, transit routes and commercial services.* 10.4: Promote environmentally sustainable patterns of development, as well as economic and job creation, in relatively underinvested, financially depressed areas. 10.5: Promote redevelopment and infill development that supports bicycle and pedestrian-oriented infrastructure and robust public transportation to better connect residents to jobs and commercial activity.* 10.6: Through community engagement efforts, and in conjunction with the completion of an Affordable Housing Strategy, develop small-area plans that establish targets for a minimum number of supported affordable housing units that substantially contribute to the City’s goals of 15% supported affordable housing 2025 within the context of transportation-oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhoods.* 10.7: Through public outreach efforts, provide information about the benefits of/opportunities for patterns of urban living, such as more efficient land use, shared public space, smaller more energy efficient units, and walkability. Assess the effectiveness of efforts and examples.* 10.8: Improve access for lower-income households to adult learning and employment opportunities, job training, health food sources, and public amenities, such as parks and recreational facilities, shopping destinations, and libraries with the goals of reducing family isolation, deconcentrating poverty, and enhancing neighborhood and school health, and economic mobility. Key This new draft version shows the edits made to the previous draft of the Comprehensive Plan. Underline = New text (Sample) Strikethrough = Deleted text (Sample) Double strikethough = Text moved to different section (Sample) Double Underline = Text moved from a different section (Sample) TRANSPORTATION DRAFT CHAPTER AUG 2018 Overall Transportation System Goal: Develop a safe, equitable, and efficient transportation system that provides a range of transportation choices for all roadway users; reduces single occupancy vehicle travel (from 60 percent to 50 percent for commuters); enhances residents’ quality of life; facilitates development in appropriate locations; supports a strong, diverse economy; conserves natural resources and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. [May need modification as land use plan evolves. All objectives would be adjusted as needed.] Complete Streets Create and maintain a connected network of Increase safe, convenient and pleasant accommodations for pedestrians, bicyclists and people with disabilities and transportation facilities for people of all ages and abilities that improve quality of life within the community and within individual neighborhoods. 1.1: Continue to implement the City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan and Streets that Work Plan to facilitate bicycle and pedestrian travel within the City and provide regular updates on plan implementation. 1.2 Strive to provide convenient and safe pedestrian connections within 1/4 miles of within all commercial and employment centers, transit routes, schools and parks. 1.3 Continue to implement the Streets that Work Plan, providing recommended design features from the Streets that Work Plan along on roadways, such as street trees within buffers, street furniture and sidewalk widths that improve the safety and comfort level of all users and contribute to the City’s environmental goals. 1.4: Explore and implement safe, convenient and visually attractive crossing alternatives to enable pedestrians and bicyclists to cross major thoroughfares. 1.5: Continue to include bicycle, and pedestrian, and transit (including pupil transit) accommodations in conjunction with the planning and design of all major road projects, all new development and road paving projects. 1.6: Consistently apply universal design features (including ADA standards as outlined in to facility design per the ADA Transition Plan) and ensure that sidewalks are free of obstructions and accessible curb ramps exist at all pedestrian crossings where conditions allow. 1.7: Examine Review and update the Standards and Design Manual to better incorporate Complete Street and Living Street design features in the public right of way. 1.8: Coordinate with public schools to implement the Safe Routes to School Activities and Programs plan within for every public school in the City. 1.9: Seek to expand and anticipate traffic calming where applicable throughout the City in collaboration with neighborhood residents and as part of the development process. 1.10: Require new development and redevelopment projects, where applicable, to provide temporary bicycle and pedestrian access when such access is affected by the development. 1.11: Consider the impacts that emerging technologies (e.g., ride sharing, autonomous cars, online goods delivery, electric vehicles, etc. ) may have on the future capacity needs of the transportation network, environmental sustainability goals of the City, as well as their potential impacts on land use planning/design. Develop policies and programs to promote the use of such technologies as appropriate. Land Use & Community Design Goal 2: Improve transportation options and quality of life through land use, and community design techniques, and an effective, high frequency transit system. Goal 2: Improve quality of life and promote active living by reducing automobile congestion and expanding multi-modal transportation options within and between nodes identified in the Future Land Use Plan. 2.1: Provide convenient and safe bicycle, and pedestrian, and transit connections between new and existing residential developments, employment areas and other activity centers to promote the options of walking, biking, or and using public transportation. 2.2: Encourage new street connections and alternate traffic patterns where appropriate to distribute traffic volumes across a network and reduce trip lengths for pedestrians, cyclists, transit, and private vehicles. 2.3: Improve walking and biking conditions by discouraging and/or minimizing curb cuts for driveways, garages, etc. in new development and redevelopment. 2.4: Encourage a mix of uses in the Downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map priority locations, such as along identified transit corridors and other key roadways, to facilitate multimodal travel and increase cost‐effectiveness of future service. 2.5: Update city regulations (zoning, Standards and Design Manual) where appropriate to consider facilitate enable design techniques that allow for encourage urban scale, walkable communities. where appropriate 2.6: Promote urban design techniques, such as placing parking behind buildings, encouraging active, uses at the ground floor level along key street frontages, reducing setbacks where appropriate, and increasing network connectivity, to create a more pedestrian friendly streetscape and to reduce speeds on high volume roadways. 2.7: Encourage businesses new developments to provide on‐site amenities such as transit shelters and, bicycle storage (racks/lockers), and shower/locker room facilities to promote alternative transit transportation options for their residents/workers/customers. 2.8: Consider efficient and effective Transportation System Management (TSM) techniques during transportation planning and scoping of projects. 2.9 2.8: Reduce parking requirements in the Downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map when a development proposal includes Transportation Demand Management (TDM) strategies that can be demonstrated to reduce trip making to and from the development. 2.10: Develop a GIS‐based map of all city owned undeveloped land and rights of way, to inform bicycle and pedestrian improvements. 2.11 2.9: Encourage UVA and other major employers, like the City of Charlottesville and Charlottesville City School Division, to work in partnership with developers and real estate professionals to expand workforce housing opportunities within close proximity of the employer, either by foot, bike or transit with emphasis on Downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map. 2.10 Support public transportation and non-motorized travel through the design and development of mixed-use projects in the Downtown and other areas identified on the Future Land use Map. The road design and site design (including the location of parking, transit stops, pedestrian facilities, and secure bicycle parking), and other facilities should be supportive of public transportation usage and non- motorized travel Arterial Roadway Network Efficient Mobility Goal 43: Maintain a safe and efficient transportation system to provide mobility and access to support the economic development goals of the city. Goal 3: Improve mobility and safety of the arterial roadway network. 3.1: Continue to encourage local employers to use Travel Demand Management (TDM) techniques, such as flexible work hours and financial incentives for using alternative modes of commuting, to preserve the traffic‐moving capacity of the arterial roadway network. 3.2 3.1 Continue to use Expand the use of Transportation System Management techniques such as Intelligent Transportation Systems to coordinate traffic signals, and communicate emergencies, weather and incidents to drivers. 3.3 3.2 Develop Adopt VDOT Access Management standards for new development and redevelopment along primary entrance corridors. 3.4: Identify multimodal solutions to reduce single occupancy vehicle use. 3.3: Identify additional roadway connections to improve the connectivity of streets. Efficient Mobility Goal 4: Maintain an efficient transportation system that provides the mobility and access that supports the economic development goals of the city. 4.1 3.4: Establish designated truck routes within the City. 4.2 3.5: Minimize the effects of congestion on commuters and the movement of goods through such strategies as: signal coordination, parking management techniques that reduce the need to circle for a parking spot, encouragement of off‐peak deliveries, exploring opportunities to integrate new technology and promotion of sustainable modes of transportation 4.3: Prioritize funding for regular maintenance to preserve and sustain investments in our transportation system connections to improve the connectivity of streets. 4.4: Consider the impacts that emerging technologies in transportation (e.g., autonomous cars, online goods delivery, electric vehicles, etc.) may have on the future capacity needs of the transportation network. 3.6 Explore shared motor vehicle service and bike share for the Downtown and University areas and eventually an interconnected ring of neighborhood nodes. 3.7: Continue to encourage local employers to use Travel Demand Management (TDM) techniques, such as flexible work hours, individualized trip planning, parking cash out and other financial incentives for using alternative modes of commuting, to preserve the traffic‐ moving capacity of the arterial roadway network. 3.8: Promote and market public transit, ridesharing, bicycling and walking with all potential users. Parking Supply and Management Goal 5 Goal 4: Provide parking to adequately meet demand and support economic vitality without sacrificing aesthetics, while minimizing environmental impacts and accommodating pedestrians, bicycles, transit users and disabled individuals. 5.1: Continue to provide bicycle parking at public buildings and explore opportunities to provide bicycle parking within public right‐of‐way to support local businesses. 4.1: Complete a comprehensive study of City parking supply, demand and parking policies. 5.2: Work with University of Virginia officials to encourage students, faculty and staff to live closer to the University or to use alternative modes of transportation wherever they live. 4.2: Identify, evaluate and adopt appropriate “best practices” for parking management to more effectively manage parking resources. 5.3: Encourage employers to provide incentives for employees who do not drive to work. 5.4 4.3: Provide public parking to maintain the vitality of the City while using pricing strategies and coordinated locations of parking to encourage use of transit, walking and bicycling. 5.5 4.4: Explore options for park‐and‐ride lots/park and bike at nodes on the city’s perimeter and examine updates to the zoning regulations to facilitate parking exempt zones. Utilize the zoning regulations to promote sound private parking facility supply and design by private developers. 5.6 4.5 Explore shared motor vehicle service and bike share for the Downtown and University areas and eventually an interconnected ring of neighborhood nodes. 5.7 4.6: Examine investment in municipal, shared parking facilities in targeted mixed use corridors in an effort to encourage redevelopment. 5.8 4.7: Develop suburban park and ride/park and bike facilities and provide express transit service to and from these during peak demand periods to reduce traffic congestion into and out of the City’s urban core and employment areas. 4.8: Continue to provide bicycle parking at public buildings and facilities and explore opportunities to provide within public right‐of‐way to support local businesses. 4.9: Examine and develop policies and prioritization criteria for City-supported integration of electric vehicle charging into the available parking supply. 4.10: Develop consistent signage and minimum design standards for electric vehicle charging for integration into the Standards and Design Manual. Transit System Goal 6 Goal 5: Create a transit system that increases local and regional mobility and provides a reliable and efficient alternative for Charlottesville’s citizens. 6.1 5.1: Continue to expand transit service and increase ridership by providing more frequent service and a longer span of service on all routes connecting nodes indicated on the Future Land Use Plan. 6.2 5.2: Evaluate transit services, including attention to Sunday and after‐dark bus service and route restructuring, and update the City‐wide transit plan. 6.3 5.3: Continue to work with Albemarle County and the TJPDC to develop a transit system that adequately serves the residents of the entire Charlottesville‐Albemarle community. This includes the continued study of light rail express bus routes and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT).* 6.4 5.4: Work closely with state government, regional organizations and adjacent jurisdictions to support transit‐oriented and transit‐accessible employment throughout the region. 6.5 5.5: Accommodate the travel needs of all residents and employees, including low‐income populations, the elderly and those with disabilities. 6.6 5.6: Require the development of transit‐oriented/supportive developments at strategic nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map. 6.7 5.7: Explore the Begin to development of a plan for a dedicated funding source to support transit development and operation of high frequency service on all routes with emphasis on routes/ corridors connecting downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map. 6.8 5.8: Work closely with new developments to provide an accessible path from nearby transit stops to an accessible entrance of the site/building. 6.9 5.9: Work with appropriate agencies to evaluate the use of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)/transit signal priority to promote transit efficiency. 6.10 5.10: Explore innovative approaches to increasing ridership of public transit, especially for first time riders. 5.11 Incorporate bus stops to the maximum extent possible to food access points including, emergency food banks, soup kitchens, nutritional services, community and school gardens, farmers markets, and grocery stores. Regional Transportation Goal 7 Goal 6: Continue to work with appropriate governing bodies to create a robust regional transportation network. 7.1 6.1: Actively work with VDOT, VDRPT, TJPDC and the Regional Transit Partnership (RTP),Albemarle County, JAUNT, and the University of Virginia to develop a regional transportation network in the surrounding the City and surrounding areas. 7.2 6.2: Evaluate regional transportation network priorities surrounding the City in MPO plans. 7.3 6.3: Actively work with the MPO to collect information regarding regional travel patterns, such as origin destination data and bicycle and pedestrian counts to improve access to destinations within the City and region emphasizing the Downtown area and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map. 7.4 6.4: Increase communication and cooperation among the City, County, Institutes of higher education, interest groups, developers and the public to develop and enhance recreational and transportation trails to ensure consistency of bicycle and pedestrian facilities across City‐County boundaries, as well as encourage commuting and other travel by these active transportation nodes. 7.5 6.5: Continue to work with the TJPDC, Albemarle County and VDOT on design to advance solutions for the Route 29 corridor, such as intersection improvements at Hydraulic/29 grade‐ separated interchanges and parallel road networks that balance the needs of both local and regional traffic, as well as people walking and biking. 7.6 6.6: Encourage existing and new employment and business uses on routes/ corridors connecting downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map to support alternative travel modes by participating in the region’s Rideshare and car/vanpooling programs. 7.7 6.7: Work with regional partners and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT) to examine future demand for and feasibility of additional AMTRAK rail service for Charlottesville and the Lynchburg corridor. prior to the Roanoke Extension project. Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure Goal 8 Goal 7: Develop sustainable transportation infrastructure by designing, constructing, installing, using and maintaining Manage the city’s transportation assets and equipment in efficient, innovative and environmentally responsible ways. 8.1 7.1: Integrate best management practices into all aspects of the city’s transportation and facility maintenance activities. 8.2 7.2 Develop policies and strategies, including collaboration with partnering organizations, to incorporate sustainable transportation infrastructure green infrastructure, such as low-impact development, street trees and green stormwater management strategies, as an integral part of transportation planning. 8.3 Develop strategies to assess the cost‐effectiveness of using sustainable transportation infrastructure green infrastructure instead of traditional alternatives for specific projects and ensure that the multifunctional benefits of sustainable transportation infrastructure green infrastructure are considered in cost‐benefit analyses. 8.4 7.3: Continue to perform regular maintenance and assess life-cycle costs on existing transportation‐ related equipment and facilities to maximize capital investment and minimize air, water and noise pollution. 8.5 7.4: Where feasible, use alternative energy sources to power equipment, such as solar powered beacons, EV charging infrastructure, and electric buses generators and battery storage for lighting. 8.6Develop a plan to replace City owned vehicles with more environmentally friendly vehicles. 7.5 Explore options for alternative fuel systems to optimize fleet efficiency (including transit and school buses). 8.7 Consider the impacts that emerging technologies in transportation (e.g., autonomous cars, online goods delivery, electric vehicles, etc.) may have on the environmental sustainability goals of the City. 7.6: Consider and report on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions impacts of bicycles, pedestrians, public transit, fossil fuel based automobiles, and electric vehicles, in light of the City’s GHG emission reduction commitments. 7.7 Explore policies and programs to promote and allow integration of electric vehicle charging infrastructure within Charlottesville. Infrastructure Funding Goal 9 Goal 8: Identify and seek new sources of sustainable funding mechanisms for the maintenance of existing infrastructure and facilities and future development of the transportation system. 8.1 Maintain and improve infrastructure with local funds to develop walking, biking and transit connections to and from nodes indicated on the Future Land Use Plan. 8.2: Prioritize funding for regular maintenance to preserve and sustain investments in our transportation system 9.1 8.3 Identify additional funding sources for transportation improvements including grants, public/private partnerships and potential system operations revenues. 9.2 8.4: Work with the MPO to Create a regional advocacy group that brings all jurisdictions together to push for evaluate statewide changes in transportation funding and propose necessary revisions. and to lobby the General Assembly for additional funding/enabling authority to do so. 9.3 8.5: Coordinate the funding and development of transportation facilities with regional transportation and land use plans and with planned public and private investments. 9.48.6: Explore the possibility of establishing a Transportation District or impact fee service areas for road improvement projects and determine the feasibility of implementing them on routes/ corridors connecting downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map. 9.5 8.7: Make developers and UVA aware of new trail linkages needed and seek opportunities for private donations of trail easements and construction of trail enhancements such as bridges or interpretive signage. 9.6 8.8: Pursue funding through state and federal grant programs to support multimodal transportation planning and the integration of transportation and land use. Key This new draft version shows the edits made to the previous draft of the Comprehensive Plan. Underline = New text (Sample) Strikethrough = Deleted text (Sample) Double strikethough = Text moved to different section (Sample) Double Underline = Text moved from a different section (Sample) HISTORIC PRESERVATION DRAFT CHAPTER AUG 2018 Vision Urban design and historic preservation contribute to the character and quality of neighborhoods, and to the aesthetic value of the entire community. As a result, the City of Charlottesville will be a well- designed community with neighborhoods, buildings and public spaces, including the Downtown Mall, that are human scaled, sustained, healthy, equitable and beautiful. Charlottesville will also seek to preserve its historic resources through education and collaboration to maintain the character of our neighborhoods’ core historic fabric, our major routes of tourism and our public spaces. Additionally, the City must recognize each neighborhood’s sense of community—it’s unique and diverse sense of place-- and take steps to mitigate the encroachment and intrusion of new buildings, development, and uses that cause many neighborhoods to feel endangered. Urban Design Goal 1: Continue Charlottesville’s history of architectural and design excellence by maintaining existing traditional design features while encouraging creative, context-sensitive, contemporary planning and design. 1.1: Promote a sense of place by emphasizing Emphasize the importance of public buildings, public spaces, and other public improvements as opportunities to promote a sense of place and a welcoming environment for residents and visitors. 1.2: Promote Charlottesville’s diverse architectural and cultural heritage by recognizing, respecting, and enhancing the distinct characteristics of each neighborhood, historic district, individually designated historic property, and community node. 1.3: Recognize the value of blending new with old; encourage context-sensitive planning and contemporary design; incorporate preservation into Urban Design and Urban Design into preservation. 1.3 1.4: Facilitate development of nodes of higher intensity density and vitality in the City’s Mixed Use Corridors, and encourage vitality, pedestrian movement, and visual interest throughout the City that respect the scale and character of historic buildings and neighborhoods, and encourage vibrancy, pedestrian movement, and visual interest throughout the City. 1.4 1.5: Develop pedestrian‐friendly roadways and paths environments in Charlottesville that connect neighborhoods to community facilities, to commercial areas and employment centers to the City’s historic, cultural, and natural assets; , and that connect neighborhoods and residents of all ages to each other, to promote a healthier community. 1.5 1.6: Encourage community vitality, expression and interaction through the incorporation of both private- and publicly-funded art in into public spaces, neighborhoods, signage, and gateways, and nodes of development. 1.6 1.7: Encourage the incorporation of meaningful public spaces, defined as being available to the general public, into urban design efforts particularly at nodes of development. 1.7 1.8: Promote design excellence for public projects and installations at all scales. 1.9: Assure that Small Area Plans account for and take steps to safeguard the City’s historic sites, structures, and landscapes. 1.10: Improve ways and methods of informing residents in historic districts about new development and construction projects within their neighborhoods and communities, as well as about local policy and regulatory changes that might impact those neighborhoods and communities. 1.11: In the development of a form based code, fully account for the goals and principles of Historic Preservation and Urban Design. 1.12: Identity specific goals for Urban Design--recognize that these may vary from neighborhood to neighborhood--and develop a guidelines and standards manual that helps implement those goals. 1.13: Maintain on the City staff the position of a Preservation and Design Planner, and support their efforts to implement the goals and strategies of this chapter. 1.14: Continue to support the Board of Architectural Review (BAR) in its efforts to guide historic preservation and urban design within the Historic Preservation & Architectural Design Control (ADC) Districts, or Historic Conservation (CV) Districts, and ensure cooperation between the BAR and City departments. 1.15: Continue to support the Entrance Corridor Review Board (ERB) in its efforts to guide urban design within the designated Entrance Corridors, and ensure cooperation between the ERB and City departments. Educational Programing Goal 2: Educate property owners and potential property owners of historic resources about the significance of their properties.* 2.1: Continue to improve the City’s ongoing education program to notify property owners and potential property owners that their property is situated in a Historic Preservation & Architectural Design Control (ADC) District, or Historic Conservation (CV) District, or is designated as an Individually Protected Property (IPP). 2.2: Continue to support the Charlottesville Historic Resources Committee’s efforts to promote understanding and appreciation of local historic and cultural resources. 2.3: Continue to interpret historic and cultural resources to the community through markers, publications, events and other means. Strive to include the narratives and resources of underrepresented groups and areas significant in our local history. Coordinate this interpretation of historic resources with City improvement projects and other City initiatives. 2.4: Continue to support Preservation Piedmont and its partners in the Piedmont Area Preservation Alliance (PAPA) in efforts to coordinate communication among local, regional, and state preservation organizations. 2.5: Continue to support participation of staff and elected and appointed officials in regional and statewide preservation and design educational opportunities. Incentives & Tools Goal 3: Continue to identify and make available incentives to encourage historic preservation. 3.1: Continue to disseminate information to property owners regarding federal and state rehabilitation tax incentives, including Virginia’s rehabilitation tax credit program and help promote and defend these programs at the General Assembly. 3.2: Pursue National Register and Virginia Landmarks Register status for all future, local historic districts. 3.3: Continue the Planning Commission’s and Board of Architectural Review’s annual awards that may include recognition of exceptional Entrance Corridor designs and the best examples of preservation and design in the community, especially in ADC Districts. 3.4: Provide technical assistance to property owners and/or provide referrals to other sources of information regarding architectural, historical or financial questions. 3.5: Continue the City’s participation in and eligibility as a Certified Local Government; support staff efforts to seek annual, matching-fund grants that contribute to the implementation of this chapter. Resource Inventory Goal 4: Systematically inventory and evaluate all historic, cultural and natural resources, landscapes and open spaces as critical and historic elements that make the City special historic resources in the City, and Develop context narratives that provide the historical and architectural basis for evaluating their significance and integrity and provide the funding and resources necessary to conduct that work. 4.1: Work with neighborhoods to develop interest and participation in documentation of neighborhood buildings and history through architectural and historic surveys. Priorities are un-surveyed older neighborhoods, such as Rose Hill, 10th & Page, Little High, south Belmont, and portions of the Strategic Investment Area (SIA). 4.2: Continue to identify and survey additional significant, individual properties located outside historic districts. In addition to historic buildings, consider significant buildings from the recent past (less than 50 years old), structures such as sculptures, landscapes such as public spaces and cemeteries, and archaeological sites. 4.3: Encourage developers contemplating land‐disturbing activities in areas likely to reveal knowledge about our past to undertake archaeological studies prior to development. Help identify financial incentives or funding sources for such studies. Encourage where warranted, archeological assessments for rezoning and special use permit requests and for all projects on City-owned parcels. 4.4: Conduct additional survey work as needed to reevaluate existing ADC district boundaries. 4.5: Survey and evaluate all City‐owned property, including schools and parks, for historic and design significance and integrity. 4.6: Systematically re-survey neighborhoods state- and national-registered historic sites and districts, ADCs and IPPs to update older survey information, beginning with Downtown and North Downtown areas. 4.7: Generate Have conducted a Cultural Landscape Study and Management Plan for the Lawrence Halprin-designed Downtown Mall, to identify character-defining historic features, and prepare have prepared a treatment and maintenance plan to protect the Mall’s historic character and features while supporting it’s the Mall’s current use. 4.8: Promote the history of the Downtown Mall through the use of art, technology, public events, and marketing promotion. Neighborhood Conservation Goal 5: Protect and enhance the existing character, stability and scale of the City’s older neighborhoods.* 5.1: Monitor the effectiveness of the Conservation District as an alternative, more flexible type of local historic district in designated neighborhoods. Monitoring techniques may include resident surveys and tracking demolition permits. 5.2: Recognize and respect cultural values and human resources, as well as built resources within the City’s older neighborhoods. 5.3: Identify opportunities to increase intensity of use and flexibility of design in targeted areas to allow for more vibrancy and creative reuse of existing buildings. 5.4: Study the urban forms in historic neighborhoods and consider allowing similar design standards in new neighborhoods. 5.5: Provide property owners with information on historic rehabilitations, financial incentives, and context‐sensitive design. 5.6: Identify existing and planned higher-intensity mixed-use and commercial areas that abut existing historic neighborhoods and work to provide adequate transitions (such as step downs in scale and intensity) to mitigate impacts on adjacent residential areas. Resource Protection Goal 6: Provide effective protection to the City of Charlottesville’s historic resourses.* 6.1: As requested by specific neighborhoods or when otherwise appropriate, consider additional neighborhoods or areas for designation as local historic districts (either Architectural Design Control Districts or Historic Conservation Districts) based on architectural and historic survey results. 6.2: On a regular basis, consider additional properties outside existing ADC Districts for designation as Individually Protected Properties, based on architectural and historic survey results. 6.3: Consider including resources from the more recent past (less than 50 years old) as Individually Protected Properties, especially those of significant architectural value and those that are becoming rare surviving examples of their type or period of construction. 6.4: Consider amending the existing ordinance to address protection of archaeological resources. 6.5: Designate Maplewood, Oakwood, and Daughters of Zion Cemeteries as ADC districts to ensure their protection and maintenance. 6.6: Continue to protect the environs of our World Heritage Site, the Lawn of the University of Virginia 6.7: Monitor state and federal level policy and legislative changes impacting historic preservation. Advocate both for positive changes and against those that threaten the existing policies, programs, policies and regulations. 6.8: Recognize and protect the Rivanna River as a historic, living resource that has played a crucial role in the history of the City, and that continues to serve as an important water supply, aquatic habitat, and recreational resource for our community. Comprehensive Approach Goal 7: Coordinate the actions of government, the private sector, and nonprofit organizations to achieve preservation and urban design goals. 7.1: Facilitate periodic meetings with Board of Architectural Review (BAR), City Council, Entrance Corridor Review Board (ERB) and the PLACE (Placemaking, Livability, and Community Engagement) Design Task Force to ensure an excellent and consistent design vision for the City. 7.2: Consider the effects of decisions on historic resources by all public decision‐making bodies. Priority areas are the Downtown Mall, Court Square, West Main Street, and The Corner. 7.3: Evaluate transportation decisions for their effects on historic districts, such as the Ridge Street District, and on Individually Protected Properties. 7.4: Evaluate current zoning map districts and allowances, as well as proposed and amendments to the zoning map and zoning text for their consistency with preservation goals, and impacts on the historic character of City neighborhoods, especially the zoning allowances for height. 7.5: Review the historic preservation plan, historic district ordinances, entrance corridor ordinance and design guidelines every five years to ensure that goals for preservation and compatible new construction are being addressed. 7.6: Encourage sustainable and green energy efficient, building designs and low impact development as complementary goals to historic preservation. Support the implementation of solar photovoltaic systems in appropriate locations. 7.7: Coordinate with other City programs, such as affordable housing initiatives, to encourage preservation and rehabilitation of historic resources, including low income housing in structures more than 50 years old. 7.8: Coordinate with the Public Works and Parks Departments regarding maintenance and construction that would affect historic features of the City’s neighborhoods. Where possible, maintain and repair granite curbs, retaining walls, distinctive paving patterns and other features instead of replacing them. 7.9: Adopt a policy of applying the Secretary of the Interior Standards for Historic Rehabilitation for all City‐owned property more than 50 years old, and apply appropriate preservation technologies in all additions and alterations, while also pursuing sustainable and energy conservation goals. 7.10: Investigate the feasibility of protecting an unobstructed sightline, as shown on the attached map, between World Heritage Sites Monticello, located in Albemarle County, and the Lawn at the University of Virginia. 7.10 7.11: Encourage retaining and replenishing shade trees, particularly large trees where possible, in all historic neighborhoods as we strive to make the City more walkable. 7.11 7.12: Coordinate with the Planning and Coordination Council (PACC) on historic preservation and urban design issues that implicate Albemarle County and University of Virginia resources. Entrance Corridors Goal 8: Ensure quality of development in the City’s designated entrance corridor overlay districts compatible with the City’s historic, architectural, and cultural resources. 8.1: Emphasize placemaking elements and examine opportunities to create destinations. 8.2: Encourage site designs that consider building arrangements, uses, natural features, and landscaping that contribute to a sense of place and character that is unique to Charlottesville. 8.3: Ensure that new development, including franchise development, complements the City’s character and respects those qualities that distinguish the City’s built environment of the City. 8.4: Use street trees, landscaping, and pedestrian routes to provide shade, enclosure and accessibility in streetscapes. 8.5: Protect and enhance access routes to our community’s World Heritage Sites, the University of Virginia and Monticello, to recognize their significance as cultural and economic assets of the local heritage industry. 8.6: Consider the designation of additional streets, such as Ridge-McIntire and Cherry Avenue, as Entrance Corridor districts. 8.7: When appropriate, coordinate the City’s Entrance Corridor Design Guidelines with Albemarle County’s Design Guidelines. Encourage continuity of land use, design, and pedestrian orientation between contiguous corridors in the City and County. Sustainable Reuse Goal 9: Capture the embodied energy of existing buildings by encouraging the adaptive re-use and more efficient use of existing structures. 9.1: Develop an inventory of underutilized properties within City limits and develop strategies (such as rezoning, rehabilitation, and development incentives) that will move these properties back into productive uses that will support increased commercial or residential uses. 9.2: Collaborate with local organizations to steward the movement of underutilized properties back into productive and sustainable uses. As appropriate, create policy and financial incentives to encourage this process. 9.3: Encourage adaptive re‐use of historic buildings as a strategy for historic preservation. Recognize that historic preservation is the ultimate form of recycling. 9.4: Support the rehabilitation of low income owner‐occupied housing for energy efficiency and preservation of neighborhood character. 9.5: Evaluate and incorporate into the design guidelines recommendations appropriate for historic structure improvements that increase energy efficiency and promote sustainability. 2. Community Facilities has been in the comprehensive plan since 2007. In fact what we have experienced is a decline in field space where Pen Park used Utility Infrastructure is assessed continually and work is prioritized accordingly. to have a large field it is all baseball fields, the large fields at 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed 1. E-Mailed Draft Chapter Comments Johnson and Buford have been reduced in size. The situation for from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • I'm not sure what the asterisks mean but I think it must mean that kids who play on a rectangular field (soccer, football, lacrosse, field • Integration between infrastructure and facility categories. For the request has been in previous comprehensive plans. That is hockey, rugby, Frisbee) is becoming untenable with fields in so instance, when upgrade or maintenance done to a utility, certainly true concerning the need for more rectangular fields. I much use that the surface is dangerous. Soccer alone has 7000 consider piggybacking some storm water, trail, sidewalk, or suggest that the comprehensive plan include language that players add the other sports you are well over 10,000. We have other improvement to enhance efficiency. Also, shared, facility recommends establishing artificial turf fields to replace the done three athletic field studies to prove this need. It has been development/management with County, others. This is done present grass ones especially if there is no will to find new field included in the comprehensive plan three times. It is time to at staff level space. This will extend the playing time and reduce the cost of address this problem. If the additional space cannot be found then 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? maintenance. If there is an effort to charge rental fees for fields I artificial turf must be installed I would suggest Darden Towe Park • Explain clearly relevance of facilities to citizens’ everyday lives suggest we use the same rate as the YMCA gets for its public space first as it is a jointly owned park. Please be as adamant about – make it more compelling Noted 1 dollar a year. Noted – finding land for new fields is difficult as flat solving this situation as you are about bicycle accommodations as open tracts are at a premium for other uses, artificial turf is being the numbers speak for themselves. Noted Group Discussion Notes planned in some locations for this reason and we do continue to • 1: Define level of service per facility to help guide and prioritize attempt to acquire more space • Comments from the Charlottesville Climate Collaborative: Noted needs. Department of Utilities needs are prioritized on a o GHG emissions from waste are a significant contributor to continuing basis • It would be good for the chapter to have a vision statement Noted our community’s carbon footprint. These emissions can be • 4: need more police space and regional approach Noted significantly reduced through proper recycling and • 1: sustainable and stewardship should be in all areas Noted • The police section needs to tie the items requested to the vision it composting. The City of Charlottesville lags behind other • 1: use technology on public side too Noted supports. Noted cities in the adoption of such practices. By offering recycling at parks and other public spaces, the City of • 1: include libraries specifically Noted Charlottesville can positively influence behavior change in • What have we missed? • This section should be reviewed in light of events of last summer the community and reduce GHG emissions. The o Technology on citizen side as well Noted – comment Noteded – This has been done Environmental Sustainability Division should be used as a unclear resource for best practices to incorporate recycling o Distinguish “facility” from “infrastructure” and define • There should be additional goals for training and community Utility infrastructure is made up of the utility facilities relations Noted education. o Overhead utilities – put on 1 side of street. This would not Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan should require be cost effective. • A definition of multimodal should be provided Noted – see o o Should trees be infrastructure? Trees are not transportation section the City, when making Community Facilities policy concerning waste management practices, to consider and infrastructure maintained by City Department of Utilities report the climate emissions impact of that policy in light o Locate underground utilities in streets not green spaces - • Trails: There should be a goals which noted completion of the trail Utilities are installed in the street when conditions allow system around the city (not using roads for the breaks in the trails) of the City’s then-current GHG emission reduction commitments and CAP. Recommendation: The o Ensure cross discussion between silos/depts. i.e. This is the primary goal of the trail plan, to complete an off-road utility/tree/trail – This happens already at staff level network. Gaps exist due to lack of legal permission from Comprehensive Plan should require the City, when possible, to provide recycling and compost receptacles in o Where are shared opportunities with county (parks/trails)? landowners, which we continually work to obtain where needed City and county trail staff regularly meet to ensure city government outdoor spaces and buildings. seamless trail systems across the boundary • Recommendations from the Tree Commission: • Remove? o There is no mention of the word "tree" in this section. This 2. March 7th Boards and Commissions Work Session o Nothing chapter should be explicit that community facilities can Comments • Challenges Noteed provide examples of best practices related to the urban Individual Responses o Money forest. Added line about trees role in stormwater o Facility space (police) management 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? o Better chapter layout – user friendly and simple language • Inventory and condition assessment is great. Will also require o Vision statement • I want to reiterate my comments on the lack of rectangular field prioritization since City won’t be able to do it all. Maybe this o How to intersect and overlay with zoning/permitting/etc. space. I am frustrated by the lack of response to this need which can include level of service goals and analysis for facilities. – (practices and policies) o Tree/canopy benefits to water section Added • Hazard mitigation a coordinated response evacuation Noted • School issues reiterated Noted • Evacuation plans in case of disaster? Noted • What is largest impediment to goals? Noted 3. May 1st Buford Community Engagement Comments • Remove nothing Noted o Coordination between people Individual Responses o Does not see communication 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • “BAR is out of control” no green space incorporated with buildings 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? development Noted • Coordination within Govt. and providers 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • Concerned about storm water runoff without greenspace. Noted • BAR – greenspace / storm water Noted the chapter updates? Please provide comments. o No capacity for runoff • Police are doing a good job Noted • Rivanna Trail was scary (peoples encounters were frightening) • Mall presence Noted 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? other people Staff works with CPTED/Police on improving safety • More community outreach for parks and rec events including for by design (i.e. eliminate hiding spaces) Group Discussion Notes people without technology/web Noted • People in county are afraid of mall Noted • Lack of communication between Mayer – city manager – staff • Lives across from ridge st. fire department. There are a lot of calls. • Put word “parks” in chapter title Will be done next plan update Noted Many nuisance 911 calls Noted • Put all maps together in document Noted Group Discussion Notes o Not resource for people smoking irresponsibly Noted • Update Northeast Park Noted o Do ambulances need to accompany fire trucks Noted • What is the sample size and distribution of participants in earlier • Likes general theme of community relations Noted 4. May 10th City Space Community Engagement conversations? Answered • How do people learn about upcoming community events? City Comments o Missy answers questions website is best source Individual Responses • Goals look probably (easily obtainable) Noted o How about low tech citizens? Local news stations and 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Children being lost to county Noted newspapers • Safe tours in county Noted • Worry about people Noted • Goals seam doable and attainable Noted • We won’t have a Florida issue Noted – comment unclear • More city kids having to go out to county because of capacity • Where is lighting in the plan 5. May 12th Central Library Community Engagement (school impact) Noted o Need more community trash receptacles and lighting Comments • Trash cans/ lights / Streets/ Parks (more ) Noted – comment around trash receptacles Lighting is addressed in the Individual Responses unclear zoning ordinance. Any changes would need to be provided • Where does this fit into comp plan? Noted – comment unclear in that document. 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Ex. Lewis and Clark at Water St. “dark as hell” Need more lights • 9th floor balcony has storm water that backs. On water street not 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from Noted enough capacity (250 west main) for storm water from building to the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • Belmont needs more trash receptacles Noted Storm water storm sewer system Noted upgrades and drinking water pressure with increase in • Need more (higher) water pressure to Lewis and Clark building 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? development Noted (250 w main) Noted • Look doable; easy to achieve Noted • Concern about ice rink Group Discussion Notes • More community trash receptacles and better street lighting • More money for infrastructure improvements. Improvements for Noted utilities are based on a five year capital improvement program 6. May 29th Belmont Arts Community Engagement • Dog poo stations should be abundant – Parks have them, is this which incorporate the rates Comments referring to sidewalks and other places? • Are we ok with fire requirements? Individual Responses o Emily answered Emergency management needs more 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from work (from staff) Noted and discussed during this session 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • What happens in an earth quake with people in high rises? Also • Generally positive but would like more attention to parks/ discussed during session, not needed for inclusion specifically in greenways Noted • Is fire department well planned? EMS Yes, we have a robust the plan. • Nice concern for more facilities in low income areas (park trails) strategic plan which includes an EMS system improvement • How do emergency responders reach citizens (knox boxes Noted strategy and work plans for each division. updated?) Emily will respond with email Done • Improve event facility coordination • How are emergency evacuations to be handled? Discussed during 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from o Example UVA graduation Noted session, not needed for inclusion specifically in the plan. the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • My interest is more parks with [ ] doesn’t need technology as • But how to integrate jobs. Open space, housing and great much as fire department/ police infrastructure over a long time period Noted o However mapping infrastructure is very important in long • Knowledge barrier for meaningful conversation is great Noted term Noted • Seems like a lot has been decided Noted o Would be great if these infrastructure mapping was • General public does not understand things like universal design, available to view on a GIS portal Noted etc. to really help plan Noted • What is enforcing measure? • Need more and better maps and more specific questions to the • Having more meetings around town is helpful to get more voices public Noted heard Noted PC is considering beginning another phase of o Example: where is a bus stop needed community engagement • Land use map is too broad Noted • Trail connectivity and multi-use parks This is in process • GIS portal or TJPDC wiki map • Storm water drains, sidewalks in development and runoff Noted • Urban forestry is important especially with urbanizing Noted • Base data at infrastructure and level of service Noted • Livable is important (trees) Noted • Sub regional storm water plans Noted • Forest is storm water infrastructure Added line to this effect 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • I imagine funding but otherwise I wouldn’t know Noted 7. Additional Comments • Don’t need more police Noted • Do need more police Noted Kurt Keesecker’s Community Facilities Comments 4-24-2018 o Types quantity of police matters • Challenging to absorb data and respond in 5 minutes Noted • I’m not sure I rank Goal 3.1 very high on the list given our other community needs at the moment, I would strike this Goal entirely • GIS – fire station Noted – comment unclear for now… or change the language to reflect need for a preliminary Group Discussion Notes study • Add this phrase (“… with emphasis on Downton and other • It was brought to my attention by an unhappy resident and sports strategically important nodes identified on Future Land Use Map”) enthusiast that we need one or two multi-use rectangle fields for to the end of the following goals: 3.4,9.3, 10.2, 12.2, 16.3, 17.1 young people. She said this was a point that people made in the • Add this phrase (“… Coordinate time of improvements with similar last comprehensive plan but nothing has been done on this issue efforts to complete Streets that Work and Bike/Pedestrian master o We have more than enough fields specific for softball. Can Plan implementation, especially at nodes identified on Future Land we alter on of them? She also thought a multi-use field Use Map...”) to the end of the following goals: 4.6, 5.6, 6.6 could be developed in Washington park which she said is • Add goal to encourage the inventory tracking of city owned land now primarily used by college students Noted and oversized right of ways that could be used for infill affordable • How will neighbors proved this input ex SIA more RTF entries housing Noted • Consider measurable implementation, articulate it IN THIS • More parks and greenways Noted CHAPTER (not a separate one) • Barriers = railways and water Noted o Get more types of use of out (multi use) o Parks (example Quarry has no playground) Noted • Too technology based Noted • Public does not have data of capacity of water, sewer Noted, available upon request to Department of Utilities • How do we get more urban and integrate open space and transportation and not separate Noted o EX. IX PHA and CHARA land is enough land for a city within a City 3. Economic Sustainability 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • • Not enough about land use and economic generators Noted Active creation of economic centers Noted 1. E-Mailed Draft Chapter Comments • I’d like to see DED staff work proactively with NDS to make the 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • Include more links to CATEC and PVCC programs Noted regulatory process clear, reduce uncertainty and improve customer service Noted • Balancing economic development and housing Agreed and • For 2.1 - add information for training for current community members Noted noted • For 4.1 – the wording “lifestyle diversity” is not appropriate and 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • Legislative inadequacies Noted should be changed Will replace with LBGTQ but welcome other, more appropriate • Scarcity of land Agreed and noted Group Discussion Notes suggestions Group Discussion Notes • Cliff – concerned about how land Noted • For 5.2 – consider adding Westhaven (CRHA) as a partner Will change to include all adjacent property owners and residents. • Need to support local cultural economic development at the same • Parker and Brenin and Jenimia – UVA students – working on • For 5.3 – Encourage public/private partnerships Noted time as tourism development Noted economic policy Noted – Comment unclear • There’s opportunity for minority business development but it’s • Hosea – like WF dev price. Wore CATEC. Speak specific to what do • Comments from Charlottesville Climate Collaborative Noted – Comment unclear covered well in the chapter Noted, OED has staff position o The City of Charlottesville should incorporate approved for FY 19 to focus on this. • Cliff – recommended updates note accomplishments – not much environmental sustainability into planning efforts and o More explicitly mentioned active relationship with eco and LU planning. Lots of talk about capital development projects. Economic planning that incorporates environmental sustainability is in the long • Particularly for African American tourism Agreed and noted housing. How get additional. LU to increase job creation Noted term economic interest of the City. Strong economies • How are we pursuing larger corporations to provide greater • Emily – job creation at all levels – not start with entrepreneurs. depend on abundant natural resources and a healthy labor number of jobs Due to noted scarcity of land OED is working with Look at job training. Living wage Agreed and noted force. Millennials look for communities which prioritize • Cliff – map is not much economic development. Much more regional partners to address environmental sustainability in which to work. Businesses • Opportunity for city/county to work together to bring large yellow. Agreed and noted are increasingly seeking renewable energy for economic, brand, and environmental stewardship reasons. Noted companies to the area Noted • Kurt – topics all come back to LU – note next table discussion • Then look at training workforce for these companies Noted Noted o Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan should require • Create a more seamless interaction between developers and city • Cliff – housing impact on locality – schools etc. Primary economy – the City, when making Economic Sustainability decisions (NDS) Noted import/export. Secondary economy – supports. Housing – concerning renewable energy and energy efficiency policy, mortgage is economy leaving the community. Rewrite ZO you can to consider and report the climate emissions impact Noted 3. May 1st Buford Community Engagement Comments incentivize housing. Noted • Emily – Need housing strategy to drive the process. Pass out 2. March 7th Boards and Commissions Work Session Individual Responses talking point sheet. Noted Comments • Hosea – want to talk about DT Belmont – don’t forget other areas 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? Individual Responses are economic generators. Pockets beyond DT mall Noted • Very focused on job training Noted • Cliff – lots of other places have different nodes and need that in 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? Individual • The recommended updates to not use environmental, land use Cville. Currently all trans goes downtown. Would be good to have responses: (CP and zoning) to simulate economic development. We going to different nodes. If have 50K more people, need to plan for should be planning greater greenspace environmental and them to recreate Vast majority of CAT routes go downtown, not all • I like the focus on raising awareness of the city’s ethnic diversity Noted land use asset to stimulate sustainable more livable economic • Emily – city have UVA pay living wage. Noted • Would like to see more development of African American growth Noted • Cliff – note competition Noted historic/tourist sites Noted • Emily – it’s university town – major employer. Noted 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • See e.g. Blue Ribbon commission recommendations Noted the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • Please keep the specific reference to African American history Noted • Brendin – how balance economy and affordable housing. Better • Core space is vital. Strong housing policy is first Noted • Tweak zoning in residential neighborhoods to allow for small balance, want more perspective of real estate. Need more engines • Build at core – live/ work/ play Noted businesses to exist i.e coffee shop bakery mini mart Noted for growth. - noted • Isolative zoning is prohibitive Noted • Zoning needs to be flexible Noted • Kurt – note size constraint. Noted • Figure out incentives to build creative ideas/ projects Noted 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • Brendin – startups allow aff. Noted • Traffic + transportation needs to be addressed Noted the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • Cliff – integrate UVA/city/county to regional economy. Go than of • Building development entitlement process is slow + turns away greens – grow veg on rooftops. This can add up over time Noted small business Noted 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter • Emily – part of challenge as how drafted – not focus on racial • Zoning needs to be better aligned Noted goals? justice, don’t continue displacing people. Noted • Shouldn’t be hard to open new business Noted • Kurt – note that may be a challenge to address Noted • Harris + River road has long term local business - Noted • Emily – eco dev not acknowledge the concerns Noted Group Discussion Notes • Business sectors advisory council Noted • Joy – talk about comp plan, how outreach to get people to come, • Set of advocates within industry clusters led by OED Noted have neighborhood people to outreach. Not every neighborhood 7. Additional Comments • Zones + planning discrimination practices prohibit low income flourishing. Need to build wealth for people. Noted growth Noted Kurt’s Keesecker’s Economic Sustainability Comments 4-24-2018 • Cliff – comp plan help find direction on how to set goals and • Like to see OED be proactive where issues prohibit core economic achieve Noted development issues • Change goal 3 to read …”In targeted areas of the city at • Joy – pay living wage, OED more in the chapter. OED programs are o no one in OED will advocate for pro-business friendly strategically important nodes identified on Future Land Use Map” not as through as could be. Noted and would like to learn more policies Noted Noted • Notes from Councilman [ ] o for zoning changes, need staff advocate Noted • Add this phrase (“…with emphasis on Downtown and other o Keep business in City Noted and agreed • Business growth sustainable? Chance to review high growth strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use o Downtown mall startups Noted companies? Noted Map to the end of the following goals 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 5.3 - o Hard to develop in city, it should not be so hard Noted Noted 5. May 12th Central Library Community Engagement • Measure disparity of job salaries and housing prices within ¼ mile 4. May 10 City Space Community Engagement th Comments radius of various strategically important nodes identified on the Comments future land use map Noted Individual Responses • Leave goal 2.5 in the Chapter and/or change language to Individual Responses articulate/ project a direct understanding of the importance of 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? arts/ culture in the local community Removed due to progress with 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from Arts Coordinator position 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • Provide some language to encourage development of affordable the chapter updates? Please provide comments. the chapter updates? Please provide comments. business space as well as affordable small manufacturing spaces 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? especially at nodes. Noted 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • Consider measurable implementation, articulate it IN THIS Group Discussion Notes Group Discussion Notes CHAPTER (not a separate chapter) Noted • Council spends too little time with this area – goal 5 6. May 29th Belmont Arts Community Engagement o If you don’t have the economic revenue you have nothing - Comments Noted o Mall focus on tech sector business Noted Individual Responses o Focus on housing alone is a mistake – it’s a connected 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? system - Noted 4. Urban Environmental Sustainability naturalists that merit consideration in planning. Addressed in Goal 1 • Please reconsider the de-emphasis of Rivanna corridor planning in draft Urban Environmental Sustainability Chapter where Rivanna • In the 2003 plan, the Goal 3 of the original plan read: "PROTECT, corridor planning has been down rated from its 2013 Comp Plan 1. E-Mailed Draft Chapter Comments INCREASE, AND PROVIDE AN INTERCONNECTED SYSTEM OF GREEN position (Goal 1 and goals 1.1-1.4) to goals 2.10-2.13. Moved the • Chapter 4 needs to address food-specific issues. A "Green City" SPACE AND BUFFERS THAT SUPPORT HABITAT FOR WILDLIFE, Rivanna River to a focused Goal 3 under the theme of Water that the vision outlines is not complete without a robust and IMPROVE WATER QUALITY, AND DELIVER VALUABLE ECOSYSTEM Resources rather than under Goal 2 regarding general water resilient local food system. Charlottesville needs to pledge its SERVICES." (Sorry for the all caps, it's how it was written). Goal 3 is resources stewardship. efforts toward creating a food system that actively supports local now about "Sustainable Development". The original goal is now • Geography, the topographical features of a region, matters to farmers and producers and works to give access to fresh, healthy gone completely, and I can find no reference to native plants, residents, visitors and to our regional economy. The Rivanna River food to all residents regardless of age, income, race, etc. A biodiversity, habitat or ecosystem services whatsoever. This is a is the major natural asset in our area. Planning and zoning in the targeted line focusing on more vulnerable communities is of the pretty huge oversight and needs to be addressed. In contrast, Rivanna corridor is of critical importance if we are to achieve the utmost importance if Charlottesville truly sees itself as a socially Albemarle's natural resources section of their comprehensive plan best use of our waterfront while retaining the riverine ecosystem equitable city. Charlottesville already sees many actors working on proactively seeks to conserve/restore habitat and has specific services and recreational benefits people enjoy. We require a plan the grassroots level to promote a healthy local food system, but goals (like a requirement that 80% of plants in County projects be that supports harmonious development in the corridor to promote we now require institutionalization and coordination in the form of native). Lastly, it's worth noting that native plants and habitat the health, safety, prosperity and general welfare of Charlottesville government planning and support to progress toward a better conservation have significant funding opportunities associated food system for all. New goal 8 added with them (like VCAP), and that many of those goals • I urge the Comprehensive Plan writers to include a fleshed-out recommended in the 2013 plan now would count towards the MS4 section on strengthening our local food system, as well as and other Chesapeake Bay requirements. Reference to natives, specifically mentioning food in the vision. Noted. habitat, etc. was moved into Goal 1 (Urban Landscape & Habitat • Goal 3: Reduce Greenhouse Gases and the overall carbon footprint, Enhancement). Additional working has been added in response to thereby safeguarding human and planetary health added (new this comment. Goal 4) • This morning at 7:30 I ran into two tourists from Tennessee • 3.1: Encourage high performance, green building standards and walking the trail next to the Rivanna River. They asked for a practices such as the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED breakfast recommendation. Noted certification program, Earthcraft, Energy Star, or other similar inhabitants. systems. Incorporated • The scene at noon today in Riverview Park looked like this: Specific Rivanna River Goal 3 included to address this and several • 3.2: Promote compact block and street networks and a built following comments environment that facilitates walking, biking and bus riding that • Existing planning/zoning allows less than ideal treatment of river diminish reliance on single occupancy vehicles. Added. frontage. (this photo is from the river facing side of Pantops • 3.3: Encourage sustainable site design standards and practices shopping center) See above. such as the LEED-ND certification program. Incorporated in 4.1. • Long range we have high hopes for cooperative planning in the • 3.4: As appropriate, create policy and financial incentives to Rivanna Corridor with the County. Meanwhile, both jurisdictions encourage increased building and site performance that reduce should immediately embrace thoughtful planning in the corridor. greenhouse gases and the City’s overall carbon footprint. Added. See above. • Sorry for the late input since I know you are quite far along at this • Engaging this planning issue holds great promise for our City. point in your comp plan process, but I'm troubled by some of the See above. language that is proposed to be removed, particularly in regard to native plants and habitat. Native plants and urban habitat are • The photo above captures less than half the vehicles on site. Noted state-wide funded priorities for multiple agencies (DCR, DEQ, • This is what we get from smart planning in the Rivanna River VDGIF) and important to meeting water quality goals and Corridor. Noted • Recommendations from the Tree Commission: addressing the decline of pollinators. Charlottesville also has o Goal 1 should remain as it was in the 2013 plan: Protect, occurrences of locally rare species and habitats identified by local increase, and provide an interconnected system of green space and buffers that support habitat for wildlife, should make available educational resources and engage improve water quality, and deliver valuable ecosystem 2. Much more energy reduction can be gained from the aggregate in promotional campaigns drawing attention to the services. The themes of current Goal 3 (incorrectly of existing buildings than the small percentage of new severity of the problem and the role individuals and referenced above) has been moved into proposed Goal 1. buildings. Energy efficiency measures for existing homes of all business can play in mitigating it. Objective added. Goals are not weighted. ages, owned by persons of all incomes and possibly renter- o The goals set forth in the Urban Landscape, Sustainable o Retain 2013 language of goals 1.4, 1.5, 1.10, and restore occupied, and the buildings of small businesses should be Development and Resource Efficiency all support GHG 2013 goal number 2.3: See responses below creatively incentivized and publicized as part of Charlottesville’s balance and should so state. Noted o 1.4 Continue to Implement and update the Urban Forest civic virtue. Facilitation can be addressed through active o The Materials Recovery and Waste Management section Management Plan to protect quality of air, water and partnerships with LEAP, the many nonprofit environmental groups, should give attention to the disposal of refrigerants. Most lands, manage stormwater, provide shading and absorb and others. The City should consider ways to creatively expand the refrigerants are more than 1000 times more effective in CO2 with an emphasis on addressing invasive species, building energy efficiency services that LEAP offers and trapping heat than CO2. Their use and disposal has been diversity, and distribution. Intent remains the same with coordinates - for example with bulk purchasing and service identified as the single most effective step we can take in addition of emphasis agreements. The City should seek, or set aside, adequate funding reducing the effects of GHGs. Captured in Goal 7 o 1.5 Monitor, expand and protect the overall tree canopy of for this work. In many ways State law limits renewable energy • Your comprehensive plan is woefully lacking in its commitment to the City and increase the canopy of neighborhoods in an programs in Virginia. So reducing our energy consumption combat global climate change. Our wealthy and educated effort (Remove: “to achieve American Forest canopy footprint is our main path to forward. Objective added to Goal 4 community can and should be doing much more. It is too late to recommendations (urban: 25%, suburban: 50% and center stop some of the harm global climate change is already doing, but business zones: 15 %”). Retained with modifications 3. To prevent the emissions of extremely damaging refrigerant we should be doing as much as we can to lessen the impact. Take o 1.6 Include trees, as practicable, in all city priority gases (CFC’s and HFC’s) from old refrigerators and air conditioning the lead of the many active renewable energy organizations in streetscape plans (e.g., framework streets, safe routes to equipment, the City should arrange that Ivy Materials Center town to work out the specifics of responsible planning. Noted. school, Strategic Investment Areas). Retained with accepts this category of Household Hazardous Waste at least on a modifications monthly basis instead of only semi-annually. Captured in 6.1 (or • 1. Set a more ambitious reduction goal than 30% by 2050, largely o 2.3 Develop methods, including financial incentives, to call out specifically?) through partnering with and incentivising the UVA, business and support retaining and increasing healthy tree canopy on residential sectors, since the City itself produces only 4% of private lands. Added back in as Obj 1.7 • As a near neighbor to the city, I would like to make a few emissions. We need to commit to a 26-28% from 2005 levels by comments about what I believe is the current draft of the Urban 2025 in order to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. • 1. The stated goal of 30% greenhouse gas reduction by 2050, Environmental Sustainability Draft. 2. Incentivize energy improvement of existing buildings in all compared to baseline 2010, is not nearly enough to do our fair o I think the Plan is an opportunity to position sectors (residential, business, etc) by creatively expanding share to limit global warming to not more than 1.5 degrees C. If Charlottesville and the adjoining region as a leader in partnership with LEAP, helping facilitate bulk purchasing the world does not solve the climate challenge, it will become the addressing what will be in all likelihood the greatest agreements, or other measures. Objective added to Goal 4 overwhelming problem of daily living. Therefore, the City should challenge of the 21st century--- climate change. The plan 3. The Household Hazardous Waste at Ivy Materials Center should plan to facilitate a much more ambitious reduction, with should explicitly recognize this. “leader” wording added accept appliances monthly rather than twice a year so that intermediate goals at the periodic intervals measured in the GHG o Around the country more than fifty counties, states and emissions of extremely harmful CFL refrigerant gases, that were Inventory. Leading by example will be helpful. But because that cities have dedicated themselves to the goal of Green legal when older refrigerators and HVAC units were manufactured, the City’s own emissions are a very small part of the total, House Gas (GHG) neutrality, typically by midcentury, in can be prevented by proper handling. The Materials Recovery and facilitation can occur mainly through actively partnering with and some cases much sooner. At a minimum Charlottesville Waste Management section should give attention to the disposal incentivizing the residential, business and UVA sectors. A climate should aim at the US goal stated in the Paris Agreement of refrigerants. Captured in Goal 7 of concern for the climate should be fostered as a priority. (which President Trump may or may not succeed in “Partnering with” should mean active engagement with the many abrogating): GHG reductions of 26 to 28% below 2005 • I am in favor of the following changes to the 2019 Comprehensive local organizations that have a climate protection objective as part levels achieved by 2025. Noted Plan: of their mission and leadership to broaden the base of committed o The city government itself is only a minor contributor of o 1. A much more ambitious reduction goal than 30% by participants. The promising start made by the Mayor and City GHGs but its policies can influence the behavior of 2050, largely through partnering with and incentivizing the Council in 2016 should be reawakened. Objective added to Goal 4 thousands of citizens and local enterprises. The city UVA, business and residential sectors, since the City itself produces only 4% of emissions. We need to aim for 26-  3. Recommendation: The Compact of Mayors emissions inventory in 2012. Long gaps in emissions 28% by 2025 in order to meet the goals of the Paris requires the City of Charlottesville to develop a measurement make it impossible to know whether or not Climate Agreement. Objective added to Goal 4 Climate Action Plan (CAP) within three years of the City of Charlottesville is making progress in reducing its joining. The City’s commitment to develop a CAP GHG emissions. o 2. Incentivize energy improvement of existing buildings in should be referenced and incorporated in the  Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan all sectors (residential, business, etc) by creatively Comprehensive Plan. should require the performance and public release expanding partnership with LEAP, helping facilitate bulk of an annual GHG Inventory. Addressed purchasing agreements, or other measures. Objective o B. Additional Comments Regarding Climate Action added to Goal 4 Planning: The development of a strong and attainable GHG • Comments from Charlottesville Food Justice Network: o 3. The Household Hazardous Waste at Ivy Materials Center Emissions Reduction Goal and an effective Climate Action o Urban Landscape & Habitat Enhancement should accept appliances monthly rather than twice a year Plan will be complex. It must span sectors, geographic  Goal 1: Pursue a healthy ecosystem, including a boundaries, and emissions sources. Objective added to robust urban forest that delivers valuable so that emissions of extremely harmful CFL refrigerant Goal 4 ecosystem services. gases, that were legal when older refrigerators and HVAC  Comment: This section should include protection units were manufactured, can be prevented by proper To address this issue, the Comprehensive Plan should of existing, and addition of, urban agricultural handling. The Materials Recovery and Waste Management reflect the following: spaces. The city bolsters multiple urban section should give attention to the disposal of  1. Greenhouse gas emissions from our community agricultural spaces in all 18 neighborhoods refrigerants. Captured in Goal 7 derive from multiple sectors (e.g., institutional, regardless of income level, as well as 7 of the 8 commercial, residential, and government) and public schools. Many of these community gardens multiple sources (e.g., energy use, transportation, are used for food security access, and some are • Comments from Charlottesville Climate Collaborative waste, etc.). To effectively address climate under threat of destruction from redevelopment. Noted and objectives added/modified in Goal 4 emissions reduction, the CAP should involve all Pursuing a healthy ecosystem can also support our o A. Inclusion of Compact of Mayors Commitments: In the sectors in its development. food needs by encouraging and supporting the summer of 2017, the City of Charlottesville joined the Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan development of urban food production businesses Compact of Mayors and signed on to its three phase should require a comprehensive community that employ and are owned by residents living in commitment. The Comprehensive Plan should include and engagement process, which seeks feedback from a lower income communities. Concepts reference the Compact of Mayors, which is an diverse group of stakeholders incorporated in a dedicated Goal 7 which has been international alliance of mayors globally committed to representing all sectors of our community, in the added reducing greenhouse gas emissions, tracking progress, and development of a Community-wide GHG Emissions  Add 1.10 Establish and enforce a minimum improving local resilience to climate change. With respect Reduction Goal(s) and the development of the CAP standard for square footage of green space per to the individual commitments, the Comprehensive to achieve that goal(s). Concept incorporated in person in low-income census tracts that preserves Obj 4.3 (and in some cases increases space where Plan should reflect each of the following: standards are not met) space for urban agriculture  1. Recommendation: The Compact of Mayors 2. Effective climate action will be compromised if  production and garden use throughout requires the City of Charlottesville to conduct a the CAP does not reflect the integrated development. Concepts incorporated in a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory. The infrastructure and ecosystems of the City of dedicated Goal 7 Comprehensive Plan should include the City’s Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle. For  Add 1.11 Promote and protect green and urban commitment to perform a GHG Inventory. A GHG example, transportation planning is a critical agriculture spaces in all 18 neighborhoods Inventory baseline will allow for emission component of any CAP, and the City should not (emphasize equity in investment across all reduction goals to be developed and for the consider it in isolation from the County. neighborhoods) in the city for the sustainable community to measure progress against those Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan production of locally grown foods or community goals. should acknowledge the inherent integration gardens, by participating in programs or engaging  2. Recommendation: The Compact of Mayors between the City and County on critical issues and with networks that maintain these spaces. requires the City of Charlottesville to set a GHG require the CAP to include cohesive plans across Concepts incorporated in a dedicated Goal 7 Emissions Reduction Goal within three years of the City and County on such issues. Concept  Add 1.12 Streamline and make clear the process joining. The City of Charlottesville should reflect incorporated by which neighborhoods may create shared and integrate its commitment to establish a GHG gardens. Concepts incorporated in a dedicated Emission Reduction Goal in the Comprehensive C. Annual GHG Emission Inventory: There has been a six- o Goal 7 Plan. year gap since the last time the City reported its GHG o Water Resources Protection • Should include protection of urban agriculture spaces Addressed o 2013 plan was better and stronger for trees 1.4, 1.5, and Noted – intent is in Goal 7 and in Goals 8.2, and 8.4 1.6, 2.3 Noted  Goal 2: Protect, enhance, and restore the integrity of the 3. What should be removed from the chapter updates? Please provide o 1.7 reword to open up tree plantings to increase efforts to City’s water resources. comments. provide more tree planting Noted  Comment: This section should include goals to ensure adequate protection and availability for water resources in • 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.3 – were better in 2013 language Repeat • Goal 4 low income housing. Specifically, with initial creation of • Goal 3 – Mention “sites” Done o Not one sided Noted – Comment unclear Westhaven public housing site (which was used as a model • 1.7 – can we reword it to “open up opportunities” for tree o Challenge to find places for trees Noted for other sites), water resources were not mindfully planning or inform Noted – need to determine which wording is o Not able to change code Noted considered in the design leading to issues resulting in used. water usage restrictions which impacts maintenance of 3. May 1st Buford Community Engagement Comments green space in the area. There should also be language 4. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? that sets a standard for improved water sources for city Individual Responses gardens. Currently the city gardens do not provide access • Trees and rivers don’t vote. Noted to water for irrigation which disproportionately impacts 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Whole is greater than sum of parts Noted. the poor and those without vehicular transportation. 2. What should be removed from the chapter updates? Please provide • After thought. Noted.  Add 2.16 Establish and enforce a minimum standard for comments. availability and sustainable management for water • Inability to change code. Noted. resources which is mindful of current and growing needs 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? Group Discussion Notes for maintaining green spaces, including during development and redevelopment projects, in low-income Group Discussion Notes • Goals 1 and 2 census tracts, and throughout the City noted. See Obj 8.4 o Hire expert opinions on improving the environment for the • Karen Noted river Noted o Went to Tonsler Park 2. March 7th Boards and Commissions Work Session o Incorporate river in urban planning Noted o How does green living incorporate into the city comp plan? Comments o Rivanna River should have own chapter in comp plan, o Would like to see more “walking police” especially on the Individual Responses focus take off of rivers Created a dedicated Goal Downtown Mall o Move to land use Goal 3 Noted o Underground utilities (down poles) 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? o Work needs to be done for water resources protection • Brooke Ray Noted • Charlottesville has a waterfront – not appreciated, river needs program Noted o How does this move to proposed language? attention and should probably be highlighted as separate entity. o Drainage issues Noted o Find link to submit public comments? Addressed o Concerned about removing tree canopy Noted o 20 year (Ask Kristel R.) • Fry Springs developed property – how dos that impact o Piping streams that lead to wetlands Noted • Jess Noted environment Noted o Solar ready construction Noted o Why are developers allowed to remove older trees? How • Green space in terms of environment Noted o Disconnect between planning and development Noted do citizens keep these trees? Community Engagement will cover o Off Porter Ave (new development)? 2. What have we missed with the updates? Please provide comments. o Goals should have clear outcomes Noted o Encourage developers to talk with neighborhood o Tree canopy is being reduced and it’s just being monitored • More public announcement to lead folks/citizens to info • As of March 4 there wasn’t an update online for the land use Noted documents (website, etc.) before meeting Noted chapter Noted. o Tree canopy should increase Noted • Corey Noted • Connection to development and food Addressed o Vision of tree lined streets, but unable to accomplish due • More collaboration needed with developer and neighbors • Some language is troubling like “encourage” and “monitor” Noted. to utilities and streetscape design Noted (observation) Noted • Difficulty in determining public vs private for public members o Sites, LEED program, include as reference Noted and • Charlottesville Food Justice Network Noted (repeat from earlier) Noted referenced in SADM o This section should include protection of existing, and • 1.6 utilities and streetscapes – were not able to accomplish this in • Goal 3 addition of, urban agricultural spaces. The city bolsters many areas Noted multiple urban agricultural spaces in all 18 neighborhoods regardless of income level, as well as 7 of the 8 public 4. May 10th City Space Community Engagement o Green space/ public space % goal Noted schools. Many of these community gardens are used for Comments • Food specific goal Added food security access, and some are under threat of o Community destruction from redevelopment. Pursuing a healthy Individual Responses o City county uva need to work more diligently ecosystem can also support our food needs by 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates?  More access to fresh food equality encouraging and supporting the development of urban • Employment aspect food production businesses that employ and are owned by 2. What should be removed from the chapter updates? Please provide o Urban agriculture Added comments. residents living in lower income communities. • Loss of Green space Added o Add 1.10 Establish and enforce a minimum standard for 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? o Change state code to give locality authority to tell people square footage of green space per person in low-income what they can do with their property for development Group Discussion Notes census tracts that preserves (and in some cases increases • Create sense of place Added space where standards are not met) space for urban • Broader language to describe goals Noted o Zoning prohibits agriculture production and garden use throughout o Move away from specific limits and towards broad • Developing renewable energy See Objective 6.8 development. solutions • Coordinating with county city line on storm water management o Add 1.11 Promote and protect green and urban o Ex. Parking zones vs mass transit Noted agriculture spaces in all 18 neighborhoods • Density of people/ development prohibits concept of “open space” (emphasize equity in investment across all neighborhoods) Noted 5. May 12th Central Library Community Engagement in the city for the sustainable production of locally grown • Regardless of how development happens there should be Comments foods or community gardens, by participating in programs equivalent amounts of public/ greens space Noted or engaging with networks that maintain these spaces. • More city/county/ university collaboration Noted Individual Responses o Add 1.12 Streamline and make clear the process by which • Plan should include language about urban agriculture 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? neighborhoods may create shared gardens o Related to food availability/ security (community gardens) • The Rivanna Corridor Planning topic should be moved to a 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from Addressed the chapter updates? Please provide comments. different chapter Addressed • Incentivize better development Noted • “Green living” concept – how does this work into City thinking (eg • Plans should highlight importance of “sense of place” Noted 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? policing by vehicles versus walking/biking, water bottles). Maybe • Having city map at the table would be helpful Noted Group Discussion Notes these are policy issues? Noted – community engagement will • Water consumption/protection section is important Noted cover • Specifics pertaining to trees? • General theme – keep more info Noted • How can we (neighborhoods not undergoing development activity) o Keep target # for tree canopy Removed per discussions • Taking away some specifics Noted get some improvements that are coming with new projects (eg about relevance and applicability • Give specifics on tree specific Noted underground utilities)? Noted – community engagement will cover • Tree canopy • Cliff  keep broad focus on green infrastructure • Food system access comment submitted by the Charlottesville o Integrate more green infrastructure Noted o Improve livability/ access Added Food Justice network (scan attached) Noted o Livability, access improve existing buildings Noted • Restructure away from parking goals Noted • In Fry Springs Neighborhood, concern expressed about several o Less auto central (more mass transit) Noted • Density restrictions inhibit usable live in space Noted underdeveloped lots and future development especially that tree o Impediments (density limitations) (open visible space) • Cant design more compact housing to do green space/ open space protection un under-enforced Noted Noted o Better design of 2 Noted • How can citizens speak up about the environment and convey the o Can’t design compact housing to create open space with • Inc density has positive attributes if designed well Noted – value of trees? How can we get developers to talk to the current limitations Noted Comment Unclear neighbors and hear that they would like to see… this would • Month long resident • Connectivity of green space throughout City Added contribute to an improved “community” Noted o Density has positive attributes if designed well Noted • Vertical dwelling units Noted • More collaboration is required between neighbors and developers o Connected green spaces throughout the City of • Make sure enough green space in all communities Noted (? topic for the community engagement chapter?) Noted Charlottesville Addressed • Address food specific issues Added o Suggest 2/3 bullet points • Support suggestion of more focus on native plants and urban o Climate change will affect availability and cost of food that • Cliff: City/County / UVA more cooperation Noted habitat Addressed is imported to VA • Urban agriculture development Added • Look at increasing number of pocket park Noted o Projections of Temp are steep and WILL impact our food • Martha: what about food justice? Added • Beauty / the environment absent in city budget Noted • Development and Species and Environmentally sensitive areas • Have food equity/ access Added • Rivanna River should be a strong asset and valued/ prioritized o Invasive species control  does the city do anything with o Price issue  community gardens higher Addressed this? See objective 2.1 • Bethany: Prevent development  loss Noted • Written comments provided by Marcia Geyer Addressed  Would like to see partnerships • Trade with other options Noted o Revisit global warming goal and doing our fair share o Current consideration / protection of environmentally • Cliff: rewrite 178 Noted - Comment unclear o Current goal is too little ; cville must do more sensitive areas is insufficient Noted o Bad [ ] with conservation easement issues o Want to see stronger partnerships with comm groups and  Want to see it as a planning priority and want to see the city • Environment legislation changes Noted - Comment unclear bigger priority with city vision partner with resources available (ex. natural heritage SOL) Noted o Support of [ ] easements o Partner with LEAP and greater funding for energy o GHG  by 2050 cville needs to be fossil free • Community form Mexico is great Noted - Comment unclear efficiency and demonstrations/ outreach o Reduce environmental contaminates 7. Additional Comments • Discussion on stormwater/ TMDL Noted o How is the city / county relationship with storm water  Refrigerants should be accepted more frequently (monthly at least Kathy Galvin Environmental Comments 11-27-2017 Repeat specifically with woolen mills at ivy MWC) Addressed Goal 3: Reduce Greenhouse Gases and overall carbon footprint thereby • Where does specific action from the city come from in relation to safeguarding human and planetary health. 6. May 29th Belmont Arts Community Engagement the comp plan? Noted Comments • GHG related: city needs to do more than leading by example 3.1: Encourage high performance, green building standards and practices Addressed such as the US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED certification Individual Responses program, Earth craft, energy star and other similar systems. o Investments and Bills etc. 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • River Comp Plan and Zoning: Addressed 3.2 Promote compact block and street networks and a built environment o River isn’t just a woo woo, zoning map has poor, outdated that promotes walking, biking and bus riding that diminish reliance on 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from zoning in approved river front single occupancy vehicles. the chapter updates? Please provide comments.  Ex. Industrial next to river doesn’t align with citizen wants for a 3.3 Encourage sustainable site design standards and practices such as the • Not much, but needs order and priorities so things don’t go reinvested river front. Want to see zoning overlays specific for the LEED-ND certification program missing Noted river Noted • A lot missing w/ global warming and climate change. Needs to be a  Traffic concerns and popularity of the river park(s) need attention 3.4 As appropriate, create policy and financial incentives to encourage bigger priority and more action as a whole community Addressed Rivanna Corridor plan will address increased building and site performance that reduce greenhouse gasses  Something specific in place to guide future development and and the City’s overall carbon footprint. • City should take more of a larger leadership role in this Addressed • Robust urban forest: needs more teeth or consideration to ensure embrace/ establish the river as an asset and resource to be treated Kurt’s Environmental Comments 4-24-2018 this actually happens Noted and considered carefully Rivanna Corridor plan will address • Planning and zoning and Development are out of alignment Noted • Will defer to others on how best to emphasize moving forward 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? o Ex. Storm water devices can be out dated but only thing with real River Corridor planning and implementation Addressed that fits development density with new Goal 3 Group Discussion Notes • So why do we allow that density? Noted • No other significant comments • Instead of using term “monitoring” tree canopy write “increasing” • Food systems Noted and elements added tree canopy or at least maintaining and supporting” Addressed o Climate change and resilience and food system threats • Add requirements and incentives for more permeable surfaces o Need dedicated land for food/ public space when new developments occur or businesses and homeowners o Need more local food systems (currently <1% is locally are working on repairing or replacing surfaces See 2.8 sourced 5. Housing straightforward community. We are progressive and innovative. We should embrace and strongly encourage creative all of our citizens. Thank you! development in our comp plan because it is the only way to truly 1. E-Mailed Draft Chapter Comments develop great places. You can be sure that the Downtown Mall • Affordable housing could be in the hands of home owners. Make doesn’t fit within any standard zoning. It was creative and way for backyard buildings. But the regulations would have to be • Language was removed regarding considering the effect that extremely progressive. Charlottesville took a risk in developing changed. https://www.marketplace.org/2017/10/16/world/califor regulation has on the cost of housing. Regulations are responsible it. By removing the push for creativity from our comp plan, are we nia-law-relaxes-backyard-building-rules-ease-housing-crisis for a significant percentage of the cost of building and providing now saying that those great places weren’t worth the Please see Goal 2.5 new housing. A 2016 NAHB study showed that regulation risk? Reinsert old section 6.4 and deleted portions of old section accounts for nearly 25% of the cost of a new for-sale 6.5. Strongly reinforce language encouraging creative and • In reviewing the “Housing” section of the CP, it seems to me that home. Because regulations apply nearly uniformly across all innovative housing and development. Specifically call out the the new draft weakens in some ways the City’s commitment and pricing levels, that percentage is lower for expensive homes and need to maintain flexibility in design standards in order to focus on affordable housing. I certainly hope that is not the intent higher for affordable housing. Regulations have a greater cost accomplish other City comp plan goals. behind the proposed changes. In any case, I’m also disappointed impact on lower priced new housing. Our community values affordable housing. One of the most effective and significant ways that there has not been more open and public discussion about • I feel strongly that by deleting the #1 goal of the Housing chapter this important issue. to make housing more affordable is to take a long hard look at the as being proposed by the new draft of the City's Comprehensive Noted. details of regulations that add cost (they all do) and evaluate those Plan we fail to prioritize affordable housing. Please reconsider this regulations in the context that there is a tradeoff. Additional edit; it has the potential to speak loudly to communities that There are numerous individuals and organizations with enormous regulations and requirements absolutely lead to less affordable deserve to be considered during our long/short term approaches. capacity to increase/improve affordable housing in our housing. A different class of sewer pipe may be better, but it costs Noted. community. I respectfully recommend that the City facilitate a more. With the knowledge that that requiring a developer to install a more expensive sewer pipe makes the new housing served meaningful and open conversation about this issue and its by that pipe less affordable, is it worth it? In some cases the • As a resident of the City of Charlottesville, I'm writing to you with treatment in the new Comprehensive Plan. answer may be yes, in some cases it will be no. Without the regard to a number of affordable housing-related issues. The City Noted. context of the cost implication we will always opt for the better, is in grave need of more affordable housing development, more more expensive pipe without realizing that we are hampering our inclusive and flexible zoning policies, and more support for low- Importance of Incentives and Zoning Reform ability to provide affordable housing. Reinsert old sections 6.1 & income families, which will benefit the entire community. A few 6.2 and add reinforcing language emphasizing the need to items of consideration: Goal 3: Establish a series of incentives along with city-wide zoning evaluate cost consequences of regulation along with the benefits. o 1. Regarding the Comprehensive Plan, I oppose rewriting reform to create new affordable, mixed-income, accessible and Goal #1 in the housing section, which would weaken the environmentally sustainable housing and a variety of housing • Goal 6 was changed to Goal 3: Established a series of incentives commitment to creating more affordable housing. We types beyond the urban corridors and small area plans. to create new housing. The sub goals were changed to suggest must maintain our commitment to achieve AT LEAST a Please see new Goal 4: Explore progressive and innovative zoning actual incentives. minimum of 15% supported affordable housing by 2025. regulation and land use reforms to support the development of • Goal 6.1 change to Goal 4.3. The 15% goal is addressed in Goals 2.1 and 10.6 affordable housing o 2. I would like to express my support for keeping to your Language about encouraging PUDs and creative, green, mixed- commitment to AT LEAST double the Charlottesville 3.3: Identify, and prioritize the use of, all allowable land use, income, and mixed-use housing options was removed. PUDs and Affordable Housing Fund allocation to allow the City to zoning and planning tools, including increased density, height creative design are some of the most effective tools the City has at reach our affordable housing goals. bonuses, reduced setbacks, expanding the range of allowable its disposal to get vibrant, diverse, sustainable, creative CAHF allocation doubled as of July 1, 2018. housing types, parking requirements, expedited review and design. I’m sure that PUDs are difficult zoning districts to o 3. Regarding the zoning code and ordinance, I support public assistance with the building of infrastructure and parking administer. They are also difficult for the developer to create. But creating a more flexible code that allows for innovation facilities in an effort to stimulate affordable housing they’re better. That is the point. The extra effort is worth it. PUDs and sound urban design, and I stand with the CADRE policy development. are also one of the most effective ways to produce affordable committee around eliminating barriers and better aligning Please see new Goal 4.5 housing because of the flexibility they offer. Take a look at Phases the zoning code with the affordable housing goals of the 1, 2, & 3 of Burnet Commons. All 3 projects are wonderful places Comprehensive Plan 8.6: Through community engagement efforts and in conjunction to live. They are shining examples of mixed-use, mixed-income, Noted. with the completion of an “Affordable Housing Study and Action vibrant, sustainable, and creatively designed neighborhoods. Without the PUD, those couldn’t exist. Instead of Plan”, develop small-area plans that establish targets for a • Thank you for your support of long-term, supportive, and minimum # of supported affordable housing units that simplifying the comp plan (and then following that with a similar affordable housing in the City of Charlottesville, which will benefit substantially contribute to the City’s goal of 15% supported simplification of the zoning code), we should be looking for more ways to push the envelope and innovate. We are not a boring affordable housing by 2025 within the context of transportation- oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhoods.* o Add to 8.2: Link housing options, transportation, food • Update the vision – How is Charlottesville changing? One page Recommendation incorporated. access (add here), and employment opportunities in City with vision and goals then lay out goals in more detail in additional land use decisions. pages Noted • Comments from Charlottesville Climate Collaborative Recommendation incorporated • Homelessness needs to be included in the funding goal – homeless o Housing policy impacts GHG emissions reduction efforts in multiple ways. The location and form of new • Comments from CADRe 1-9-2018 programs like Rapid Re-housing and Permanent Supportive See developments can either promote or discourage walking o The Charlottesville Area Development Roundtable (CADRe) new Goal 6: Prevent and End Homelessness. and biking. New affordable housing stock can be built in an requests that completion of the Comprehensive Plan • Housing need to be scaled up with additional funding Noted energy efficient manner which positively impacts the update being led by the Planning Commission be • Pretty good – organized differently but hit most of the issues ongoing cost of living in new units while reducing climate rescheduled to permit the City’s upcoming Housing Policy • This eliminated Goal #1 which established impacts of regulating emissions. The orientation of new housing stock influences planning work to inform the Comprehensive Plan. and land use change on affordable housing – provides the basis for whether or not it will be suitable for rooftop solar during construction or at a future date. Implementing policy One of the primary components to a Comprehensive Plan PC and Council to evaluate rezoning, SUPs, and other ZTAs, SMAs, which encourages energy efficient housing expands is a Housing Policy. One of the key components of the etc. with the context of impacts on affordable housing discretionary income at all levels of the community while Planning Commission’s proposed approach is to institute • Ensure stated housing goals are reflected in the land use map reducing GHG emissions. incentives to stimulate the creation of more affordable Noted housing. o Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan should require 2. What have we missed with the updates? Please provide comments. the City, when making Housing decisions and policy, to NDS has engaged an economic consultant to prepare a consider and report the climate emissions impact of that needs assessment for affordable housing in the City, as a • Define affordable housing and levels in Charlottesville so each goal policy on the growth of multimodal transportation, first step in formulating a new City of Charlottesville speaks to each level Noted renewable energy, and energy efficiency, in light of the Housing Policy. This needs assessment is scheduled to be • Homelessness as a separate goal See new Goal 6: Prevent and End City’s GHG emission reduction commitments and CAP. completed at the end of March. This first assessment task Homelessness Noted scope does not yet address an economic analysis of the • Not sure about community impact concerns Noted Planning Commission’s approach to incentivizing • Some titles need working on (Goal 1 has no title) Noted • Comments from Charlottesville Food Justice Network development of affordable housing in mixed-income o Goal 7 : Increase the energy and water efficiency, and private developments through providing height bonuses. • This chapter should emerge from housing strategy. Presumable it environmental sustainability, of the City’s housing stock An assessment of the bonus requirements must be will have goals and strategies Noted carefully calibrated if it is to be a successful incentive (ratio • Tie increased density and height bonuses for affordable housing to o Add 7.5: Encourage the incorporation of food access of affordable to market rate housing). real data on needs and costs (i.e. housing needs assessment) avenues (eg. affordable stores, agriculture space such as Noted greenhouses, school and community gardens, CADRe joins with the Charlottesville-Albemarle Affordable Housing Coalition (CHAACH) to respectfully request that • Goals to be more precise Noted neighborhood farmers markets) in all housing developments to the maximum extent feasible both to City Council adjust the Comprehensive Plan update • UVA – partnerships, student impact on housing Noted increase self-sufficiency and as a way to be more completion schedule to accommodate receipt of the NDS • Homeless housing needs – funding for, make sure these are sustainable and to increase access to food. affordable housing needs assessment and an economic explicit See new Goal 6: Prevent and End Homelessness Recommendation incorporated. assessment of a viable affordable housing incentive • Need housing strategy first Noted program to inform the Housing Policy component of • Stronger wording re: fair housing enforcement o Goal 8 : Ensure the City’s housing portfolio offers a wide Comprehensive Plan update. range of choices that are integrated and balanced across Noted. • Definition of affordable housing – need to include/identify tiers the City, and which meet multiple City goals including: and focus goals Noted community sustainability, walkability, bikeability, public 2. March 7th Boards and Commissions Work Session • Land use map and housing chapter need to align Noted transit use, increased support for families with children, fewer pockets of poverty, access to local jobs, thriving Comments 3. What should be removed from the chapter updates? Please provide local businesses, and decreased student vehicle use.* Individual Responses comments. o Add: food access to description goal 8. 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Either shorten and keep strategies vague or add specific about Recommendation incorporated. income levels, neighborhoods, and land use Noted • 6.2 and 1.4 seem to be the same Noted • Enforcement of fair housing act decisions (Charlottesville Food Justice Network) Please see Goal o Where in the comp plan does it say that the • Remove emphasis on pushing affordability at extremely low 10.2 accomplishments in the one pager were described in the incomes onto developers or these units will not get built Noted 2013 goals Noted 4. May 10th City Space Community Engagement o Accomplishments are ad-hoc and it appears as though we 4. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? Comments are providing the cart before the horse Noted • Creating coalitions to work together to have the goals tied into o Need data on the number of units needed, what levels, Individual Responses council decision making Noted what incentives are to be provided, Will be included in a 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? city-wide housing strategy • Need to identify key parcels that can reconnect neighborhoods that are hidden valleys Noted • Not far enough for extremely low income Noted o We need to put of coming up with a final Housing chapter • Funding Noted until we have the HNA Noted • Need more robust housing chapter Noted • Concerns about affordability – define (levels) Noted • What needs to be in the comp plan is the strategy of having a • Need anti-displacement strategy Noted • Please don’t update housing chapter until comprehensive housing following HNA after this one is completed Noted o 30-60 day rental assistance (safety net) strategy is adopted Noted • Discussion about requesting more time from city council Noted • Neighborhood protection – small affordable homes Noted • Clear that there is a need for housing for all income levels Noted • Open up accessory uses Please see Goal 2.5 Group Discussion Notes • Think about areas zoned R1 and R1S  large number of rental • Adopt 5.2 AND ENFORCED The Resident Bill of Rights is only properties Noted 3. May 1st Buford Community Engagement Comments applicable to the redevelopment of CRHA properties. The Goal has been updated to reflect this (See Goal 7.2) • As an idea: in order to raise the number of affordable housing with Individual Responses smaller units, could incentivize to create housing in areas like • 6.5 remove word “support” Incorporated. See Goal 8.5 Greenbrier neighborhood Noted 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Where will the poor people live > 30%AMI Noted • Density does not mean large buildings Noted • Hope = mixed income housing Noted • Updates sound insufficient: “consolidate,” “reorganize,” “clarify” • Increasing density in single-family areas by incentivizing density = • Remove barriers between income levels Noted are just tweaks to existing plan Noted but not larger units Noted • Maybe 15% is not enough Noted • Changing the rules Noted 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • When people talk about affordable housing be specific about % of • Air bnbs = regulated Noted the chapter updates? Please provide comments. AMI Noted • When Charlottesville first established public housing it was o 0=30% -- Rental critical need • I would have liked to see the vision statement include wording segregated Noted about very low income housing and addressing race. Noted 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from o If the city will learn for the past the city will assist with the chapter updates? Please provide comments. having diversity (different income levels) living together 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? o The children to better with integrated neighborhoods 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? Group Discussion Notes o Charlottesville should not create large units of segregated Group Discussion Notes housing • Add 7.5: Encourage the incorporation of food access avenues (eg. • Discussion about the Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) being used • Look at prices as they are increasing, Noted affordable stores, agriculture space such as greenhouses, school and community gardens, neighborhood farmers to inform comp plan goals Data from the HNA will inform drafting • Look at specific neighborhoods or areas to decide how to markets) in all housing developments to the maximum extent of a City-wide housing strategy incentivize or determine zoning Noted feasible both to increase self-sufficiency and as a way to be • How can we attempt to address housing goals without having data • There are not specific measureable numbers in the draft goals more sustainable and to increase access to food. from the housing needs assessment Noted Measurable goals will be incorporated into a city-wide housing (Charlottesville Food Justice Network) Please see Goal 9.5 • Questions about what info/data will be collected form HNA strategy • Add: food access to description goal 8. (Charlottesville Food Justice • Summarize the major changes that are to be suggested? o Goals are subjective o Pair the goals into specific measurable goals Network) • Cville Food Justice Network: food access has never been a part of • Add to 8.2: Link housing options, transportation FOOD ACCESS the comp plan – should be a goal (low income communities) • Set a goal of lowering housing prices by 10% Noted (add here) and employment opportunities in City land use • Questions about how the info/ accomplishments listed in the one- • Can’t put restrictions on developers, learn to work cooperatively together Noted pager are related to the 2013 comp plan goals o Bring an audience together 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • Input from those in need of affordable housing to be collected • How can we support the people who have been traditionally during the housing strategy outreach activities Group Discussion Notes discriminated against Noted • We need to be specific about what affordable is and target very o How can we support the people who have been lived here • Anti-displacement – eviction prevention Noted low income folks Noted a long time • Safety nets/ housing strategy plan Noted • We don’t want to see catering towards / driven by developers • Data from housing assessment need Noted 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • Protections for economic solutions Noted Noted • Lack of affordable units, along a scale of need Noted • Neighborhood protection of smaller affordable housing Noted • Discussion about UVA and rent control o Transitions zones / buffer zones • Need concrete measurable goals with outcomes that are pre- • Low density is not helpful; extreme high density is not helpful • Accessory uses defined either o Smaller lots more space for affordability • Lack of authentic engagement with all segments of the community o More transition – type housing. Services and economic o Markets for affordable accessory units See Goal 1.5 Noted development need to work to provide housing for doctors o Adopt 5.2 Bill of Rights Only applicable to CRHA • Data underlying goals? Noted and other neighborhood services Noted (re)development. Goals has been changed to reflect this (Goal 7.2) • Does not address responsibility of city and mitigate historic • Services seem mot be concentrated damage Noted • Criminal background checks can be racially divisive Noted • Great to have little “nodes” for people traveling off busy roads (i.e. • 30% AMI and below + hope to mix population Noted 250 bypass) stores – high density nodes in low density areas Noted Group Discussion Notes • Where did the 15% come from This goal was adopted by City • Convenience for services – don’t have to go to barracks rd, Council on February 1, 2010 • Community land trust Pantops if something is needed Noted o Housing replacement needs will replace with more specific • Delay comp plan until housing study done or write plan so it is • Need more low income housing and mixed parcels: more options goals open to change with results Noted • Changing DUA Noted outside of downtown Noted • Make money available for family members to buy out heirs in o Efficiency studio apartments – more popular • Large portion of city staff live 2 counties away o Request UVA build housing designated areas Noted • Higher density around parks – for example around Belmont Park. • Question: what are the goals? How does the goal get carried out in This would be too expensive Noted 6. May 29th Belmont Arts Community Engagement objectives? In reality? Noted • Concern about land use legend: Downtown not represented as Comments • Concern: how affordable is affordable housing? Noted high intensity Noted o May be way out of line for some people especially seniors Individual Responses • High end vehicles in front of low income housing Noted 5. May 12th Central Library Community Engagement 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • What is the process for applying for low income housing? Comments • Trouble for someone making less than 30%ami Noted • What recommended updates? Individual Responses • We need concreate measurable steps Noted • Housing study will name specific concerns Yes • We need measures defined for clarity of need and • Concern for seniors Noted 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? accomplishment To be determined during the housing strategy o Difference between a working family income and a • No comp plan without a housing strategy Noted outreach activities senior’s income • Eviction prevention Noted • What are they based on? • Too many variables in the AMI that we are not sure what we are • Residents Bill of Rights (housing authority) See Goal 7.2 • Do we have a broad strategy vision based on good data and an capturing Noted • Replacement guarantee or residents whose housing is being understanding of discriminatory processes Noted • Who are the incentives given too? Noted replaced or redeveloped Noted • Will the plan / chapter address the historic concerns/ in equity that o Answer: land bank and developers • Provide for development in the SIA such that anyone can walk, contributed to current housing crises Noted • We need a PR campaign for affordable housing Noted bike or drive and live there no matter what their income Noted • Very vague Noted o Affordable can’t just mean “people I don’t want to live with” 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • Need to get away from thinking affordable means public housing the chapter updates? Please provide comments. the chapter updates? Please provide comments. Noted • Before we have a comp plan we need a housing strategy Noted • UVA studies says: really affordable housing needs to be subsidized o So we’d like to preserve and rehabilitate older homes and • Need a plan so that assessments don’t go up because the neighbor Noted keep those small homes which are affordable Noted buys for a lot but then you pay back the difference when you sell o Who is subsidizing? • Encourage publicize and add incentives for increased numbers of the house Noted • No way that the market can take care of affordable housing on its accessory dwellings in R-1 neighborhoods where the main building • In 10th and Page – when elderly person passes individual family own Noted is owner occupied See newly added Goal 2.5 members can’t afford to buy out owners so sell outright – give • There is a history that Charlottesville has of driving people out (ex. • Change zoning ordinance to increase a buffer between residential assistance to keep first family in place Noted Vinegar hill ) Noted zoning districts and more intense zoning districts (B1, B2, B3and • What is affordable housing fund? o Some is gentrification currently but also historic pattern industrial and large R3 apartment buildings Noted o 80% AMI but most is much lower such as 50% or even 20% • Incentive needs to be: streamlining the process Noted o These buffers would involve more distance from wall edge • AMI = 89600 currently • Where is the data that all of these updates are coming from? of new buildings and the boundary with their residential • Why are we moving forward with Comp plan when housing needs o What about demographic analysis? Income age education neighbor’s property line strategy not completed? race? Available in the Charlottesville Housing Needs o Require setbacks on buildings that are significantly tall o Support waiting Assessment • Limit height of houses to fit in with heights Noted • Housing strategy is another year until completion – will replace the http://www.charlottesville.org/home/showdocument?id= • Disallow appurtenances on new buildings Noted existing chapter 62034 o (please look at new duplex on commerce st. that dwarfs • Housing strategy – robust engagement with friendship court and o That data will determine housing houses nearby) habitat • Trend now in more people renting Noted • Also encourage home ownership Noted • Greatest challenges to affordable housing: • Need more data Noted • Limit amount of land paved in front yard Noted o Land prices Noted • We have gotten all of these goals without ANY data Noted • Limit the assessment on modest homes that are next to a house o Density (too low) See Goal 3.5 • So far we have had only very general information Noted that have been added on to and whose assessment has been o UVA property acquisition Noted • Broader housing strategy will take into account 1) data 2) history raised Noted o Zoning codes need revamped See Goal 4.1 and Goal 4.2 o Housing needs assessment will be part of this Yes • Keep Goal 1 because of affordable housing Noted o More incentives to homeowners to do accessory units • If we don’t have a broader based strategy based on data then • Incorporate incentives that target the specific recommendations in o Built in conjunction with affordable transportation what is our vision/ goals? To be addressed in a city-wide housing the housing assessment study to be addressed a city-wide housing • What is going on to help people graduate from subsidized strategy strategy housing? All noted o What is the foundation if there is no data? • Add height bonuses for goal 3.3 Noted o Ladder is missing in many cases • Would it be possible to simply adopt the housing strategy after • Reinsert 6.1 and 6.2 o Some are multi-generational this? Yes! • Reinsert 6.4 and 6.5 to keep PUDs o Snowballing due to access to education o What did we learn from Apex and Champaign • Unsure of what is happening in chapter – vison is vague Noted o Generations are stuck • Would like to see more initiatives to show low income renters • Vison – middle income only group specially called out – why? • People choose housing based on quality of schools – get “bad” what it looks like to be a good neighbor Noted Removed reference schools better to disperse a variety of housing Noted o Could be very simple things • Burnett Commons – lived in market rate right next to habitat • Need more programs to give low income/ students information on homes Noted 7. Additional Comments how to be good neighbors Noted • Heard people worried friendship court redeveloping will push out Kathy Galvin’s Housing Comments 11-27-2018 • In vision statement, please include something on importance of folks Noted preserving historic houses and buildings Noted • Importance of Incentives and Zoning Reform • Not many moderate priced homes available Noted • Goal 1.1 – this is good • Goal so that people from minimum wage to maximum wage can • Goal 3: Establish a series of incentives along with city-wide zoning o Can we point out that we have some affordable housing in live in the city Stated in Goal 1 & Goal 2 reform to create new affordable, mixed-income, accessible and modes older houses with small houses like Venable (near • Allow people to rent larger accessory units Please see Goal 2.5 environmentally sustainable housing and a variety of housing 10th and page) 10th and page rose Hill and woolen mills • Allow full basement to be rented Please see Goal 2.5 types beyond the urban corridors and small area plans. Created parts of little high and Belmont Noted new Goal 4 to address zoning reform • 3.3: Identify, and prioritize the use of, all allowable land use, zoning and planning tools, including increased density, height bonuses, reduced setbacks, expanding the range of allowable housing types, parking requirements, expedited review and public assistance with the building of infrastructure and parking facilities in an effort to stimulate affordable housing development. Please see new Goal 4.1 • 8.6: Through community engagement efforts and in conjunction with the completion of an “Affordable Housing Study and Action Plan”, develop small-area plans that establish targets for a minimum # of supported affordable housing units that substantially contribute to the City’s goal of 15% supported affordable housing by 2025 within the context of transportation- oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhoods. See new Goal 10.5 Kurt Keesecker’s Housing Comments 4-24-2018 • Keep a direct/ explicit reference to the 15% supported affordable housing goal See Goal 2.1 • Add this phrase (“… With emphasis on downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map”) to the end of the following goals: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 Waiting for finalization of land use map before incorporating • Regularly measure disparity of jab salaries and housing prices within a ¼ mile radius of various strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land Use Map Noted • Review Standards and Design Manual to amend provisions to allow more “missing middle” and dense small lot, small frontage, small setback (if any) low parking required housing types in transition areas between high intensity center of nodes and more distant low density areas Noted o Note some higher density housing needs to find its way into the neighborhoods to help alleviate housing crises (increase supply dramatically) …SADM changes to lot sizes and/ or frontage and density and lower parking requirements within ¼ mile of the nodes identified (and other areas as appropriate) will help • Consider measurable implementation, articulate it IN THIS CHAPTER (not a separate chapter Noted • See other ideas in Scanned Mark Up previously forwarded under review 6. Transportation 2.6: Promote urban design techniques, such as placing parking providers, bike/pedestrian advocacy efforts, and parking providers”, or something to this effect. We have to provide behind buildings, reducing setbacks, building active, transparent and market attractive alternatives to driving. 1. E-Mailed Draft Chapter Comments Added new Goal 4.5. and habitable spaces at the ground floor level and increasing • Question 3 – Remove? • The concept of “future-proofing” was touched on with the network connectivity, to create a more pedestrian friendly o 5.4 addresses parking metering – although I personally acknowledgement that emerging technologies are disrupting the streetscape and to reduce speeds on high volume roadways. have no issues with this as part of a parking policy, it might traditional transportation fabric. This concept should be expanded Revised with proposed language. be worth revisiting in the wake of the public reaction to to also incorporate how people live and how their lifestyles relate the parking meter pilot. Would it be possible to address to transportation. For example, in a near-downtown new • Add 2.11, Delete 5.8 from Parking: Develop suburban park and the different needs for short-term/metered street parking development where people want compact walkable living, are ride facilities and provide express transit service to and from these versus long-term/structured parking, as well as concerns standard neighborhood streets really necessary? Could adequate of pricing impacts on equity and downtown businesses? during peak demand periods to reduce traffic congestion into and Parking metering removed. fire protection be achieved another way? Does the rescue squad out of the City’s urban core and employment areas. • Question 4 – Challenges absolutely need to be able to pull a vehicle right up to the front Retained this comment in Parking. o See 2. Issues with transit ridership and competition with door? Might environmental goals be better served by allowing ridehailing services could make any gains difficult. Making lots that only have pedestrian access and no street frontage, thus • Question 1 – Reactions to recommended updates transit or bike/ped competitive and attractive compared reducing earthmoving and tree clearing? Before the automobile, o I appreciate the consideration of emerging trends and to driving or ridehailing will be crucial. AVs could provide technologies including autonomous vehicles (AVs), electric opportunities to reduce the cost of transit provision due to streets were very different. We seem to be on the verge of vehicles (EVs), etc., but I was surprised to see that ride reduced need for drivers, or allow for expansion of on- heading back to a time where the automobile doesn’t hailing services such as Uber, Lyft, etc. weren’t included. demand services a la JAUNT, but it’s unclear when these dominate. Might these “old-world” transportation and access These services may be having impacts on transit ridership opportunities will come. Noted. strategies found all over the rest of the world also help achieve or demand for curb space (drop-off zones, etc.) that aren’t housing affordability by reducing infrastructure where not yet being realized. • Overall: I'd like to see the plan set some quantified mode share needed? With technology that already exists and is in use, it is Noted. Goal has been revised to include ride hailing. goals based on existing mode splits. For example, if we're at 80% easily imaginable that in the next 20-50 years very few people will single-occupant auto travel for commute trips, let's cut that to 40% • Question 2 – Missed? by the plan's horizon year (and list the corresponding goal shares own cars and that our City will be grossly over-parked. Let’s o The above trends/tech including AVs and ride hailing could for bike, walk, and transit). See overall transportation system goal modernize our comp plan so that it allows the market to dictate potentially impact urban design/form by decreasing the that was moved from Appendix to Transportation Chapter. how much infrastructure is needed as the technology changes. By need for proximate parking lots (AVs being able to park changing the comp plan now we aren’t changing the rules, we’re without the passenger) or increasing demand for drop-off • Goal 1: Revise the goal's wording to refer to the establishment and just changing the construct within which the rules can evolve. zones w/ lower parking needs (ride hailing). Perhaps a maintenance of a connected network of walking and biking Noted. Goal has been revised to include city standards. strategy in the chapter would be exploring opportunities facilities for all ages and abilities. Revised Goal 1. for converting existing assets (e.g. parking); or adjusting • 1.2: the goal should be convenient and safe pedestrian zoning/parking standards or even street design standards connections citywide, not just within 1/4 mi of the stated Pupil Transportation should be addressed. (1) When new to accommodate pickup/drop-off zones, bus pullouts, destinations. Revised Goal 1.2 developments are built within the city limits the developer is not limited street parking spaces, or even food trucks. Our • 1.6: meeting ADA is a minimum requirement and should not be addressing school bus pick-up and drop-off to make sure student design standards should accommodate and anticipate the goal. Universal design that is safe and accessible for all ages safety and bus clearance is highlighted. (2) When constructing future change. and abilities should be the goal, with ADA compliance wrapped sidewalks bus routes should addressed, as well, which will improve Noted. Goal has been revised to include ride hailing and into that. Revised Goal 1.6 transportation efficiency. changes to city standards. • 2.1: "option" should be "options" and "or" should be "and." Noted. See revisions to Goal 1.5 and 2.9 Goal 2.1 Revised per suggestions. o 6.10 discusses increasing transit ridership: however, it • 2.5: instead of "consider," how about "facilitate" or "incorporate"? seems that our goal of decreasing usage of personal • Goal 2: Improve quality of life and promote active living by Goal 2.5 revised per suggestions. vehicle modes is intertwined with our goals to encourage reducing automobile congestion and expanding multi-modal • 2.7: I'd rewrite as "Encourage businesses to provide on‐site bike/pedestrian mode usage and even parking provision. A facilities such as transit shelters, bicycle storage (racks/lockers), transportation options via integrated land use and transportation more measurable alternative, or even a parallel strategy to and showers to enable more travel choices for workers." planning and community design. “Explore innovative approaches” could be “Coordinate Goal 2.7 revised. marketing and engagement efforts between transit Goal 2 revised with proposed language. • 2.8: TSM is most often a roadway issue, so consider merging this • Noted. Added Goal 5.2. We don’t really know what the impact will transportation budget on bike projects). with 3.2 in the Arterial Roadways section. be at this point, but hopefully a study of best practices will help us Revised. Goal 2.8 moved to 3.3. prepare. • 9.2: There have been statewide changes in transportation funding • 2.9: How about parking maximums instead of minimums, coupled Goal 5.9 added since the last comp plan; do we know what others we'd like? Or is with properly managed curb parking? If parking requirements are • Consider adding items about (1) encouraging businesses to offer it more about increased local authority? rethought, remove this item. parking cash-out options for employees, (2) de-coupling parking Goal revised. Enabling authority is needed for special tax district to Added Goals 5.1 and 5.2. costs from housing costs, and (3) encouraging or requiring that raise money for transit/transportation funding. • 3.1: Is "continue to" appropriate? Does the city do this at all? How paid parking be in more granular time increments, i.e., at daily • 9.5: add "and UVA" after "developers" about "partner with RideShare to provide TDM"? Also, I'd like to rates rather than monthly, yearly, or by semester, because then Revised. see the Comp Plan mention the benefits of individualized TDM the user has more of a financial incentive to avoid driving even if • Goal 6: Create a transit system that increases local and regional that is tailored to a particular person's commute and needs. It's it's only one or two days a month. ability and provides a reliable and efficient alternative for more costly than traditional TDM but cheaper than building roads. See Goal 3.9 Charlottesville's citizens. Noted. Revised. • Goal 6 should be aligned with the Transit Development Plans Noted. • Should Goal 3 include something about preparing City streets and of CAT and JAUNT. Also, whoever is writing this goal should • Add 6.11: Evaluate transit services to food access points including signals to interface with connected and automated vehicles? (Ah, read this. I'd love to see the "goals" in the comp plan reflect emergency food banks, soup kitchens, nutritional services, it's in Goal 4. Come to think of it, goals 3 and 4 might do well with quantified, measurable ridership and coverage goals, rather than community and school gardens, farmers markets, and grocery a merger.) the vague ridership goals such as 6.1 and vague coverage goals stores. Noted. Goals 3 and 4 combined. such as 6.5. Noted. TDP has completed this evaluation. • 3.3: Instead of "develop," maybe say "adopt" - VDOT has these and Noted. • Add 6.12: Incorporate bus stops to the maximum extent possible the City could just adopt them rather than spending time • 6.1: more frequent service and longer span is not necessarily to food access points including emergency food banks, soup developing something new. appropriate for all routes. Some routes that exist to serve kitchens, nutritional services, community and school gardens, Revised. coverage goals rather than ridership goals (see link in previous farmers markets, and grocery stores. • 4.3 (and 3.5, to an extent): Consider whether there are streets bullet) will not benefit from frequency increases. Same deal on 6.7. Comment added. Future planning efforts plan to serve as many of and/or sidewalks that should be abandoned rather than How about specifying that key transit corridors will be identified these as possible. maintained. Or whether other maintenance practices could be and served at high frequencies (pick something - every 15 minutes, efficient (e.g. repaving only the center 22 ft of some extra-wide or every 10 minutes) during commute hours/ daytime hours/ • Comment from Charlottesville Food Justice Network, representing 1960s residential streets rather than the entire 40-ft width that is 24/7? 20 organizations and more than 1000 stakeholders and community nearly half underused parking lanes).Noted. Noted. TDP recommendations address this. members served: Abandoning sidewalks would be counter to the City’s effort to • 6.3: What's the meaning of the asterisk o A transit system with no clear goals for expanding citizens' provide pedestrian facilities Citywide, unless the sidewalk in itself Asterisk is removed. was replaced with a multi-use trail or other feature that serves • 6.5: Quantify this spatially: perhaps a goal could be that 90% of access not only to jobs and economic opportunities, but other users. Only paving a portion of a street would actually city residents would be within 1/4 mile network distance of a bus specifically to food, child care, schools, and the community as a increase future maintenance cost as the pavement continues to stop or served by low-cost demand-response service. Also, revise whole for better inclusion, is a weak system. degrade over time, the maintenance needs and costs will increase. terminology from "accommodate travel needs" to something like Noted. However, there are opportunities around the City to reduce "ensure access for all ages and abilities." pavement width by replacing underutilized parking with Noted. 90% of residents are within ¼ mile of routes. • Comments from Charlottesville Climate Collaborative: stormwater facilities or tree planting areas. These opportunities • 7.3: add "and pedestrian" between "bicycle" and "counts" o Outside of the built environment, transportation is a major are addressed in other chapters. Revised. driver of our community’s GHG emissions. Our community • Goal 5 is nonsensical if parking pricing continues to be off the • 7.1 uses the acronym VDRPT and 7.7 uses DRPT. Pick one; the should design a transportation system which increases table; "demand" is meaningless/infinite when the price is zero. agency typically goes by DRPT. pedestrian, public transit, and cycle-friendly transportation Noted. Revised. options, while promoting electric vehicles. The City should • 5.2, 5.3, and 5.6 aren't actually about parking but are instead • 7.7 is outdated; Amtrak's Roanoke Extension started operating in prioritize development of infrastructure and services that about multimodal transportation. They affect parking but fall 2017. provide reliable, attractive, and functional alternatives to shouldn't be under the Parking goal. Revised single-occupancy car travel. Noted. Removed 5.2 and 5.3 (redundant) and added 5.6 to Goal 3. • Goal 9: is the word "protocol" a typo? Also, if quantified mode • Put something like 4.4 under Goal 5 -- one of the questions about share goals are in the plan, this goal should mention that funding o Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan should require the AVs is what we'll do with all this parking we have once cars can percentages should match those mode share goals (i.e., if we want City, when making Transportation decisions and policy just drive themselves back home or to satellite lots. 20% of trips to be by bike, we should spend at least 20% of our concerning pedestrian, cycle-friendly, public transit, fossil fuel based automobiles, and electric vehicles, to consider and • Add universal design – i.e. accessible city. See Goal 1. • Tech – AV’s, electric charging stations, parking loading at curb report the GHG emissions impacts in light of the City’s GHG • Vague. Noted. space Noted. emission reduction commitments and CAP. • Regional strategies – suburban park and ride facilities, • Minimal Noted. Noted. Overall transportation goal reflects transportation • Technologies – use Uber like bus services Noted. Hydraulic/Emmet planning efforts, Lynchburg-Cville rail system impacts on greenhouse gases. Also, added Goal 8.9. • Does plan provide new services like door to door services? Noted. Noted – Comment unclear. • Comments from the Charlottesville Food Justice Network • Public vs private services Noted. • Safe ped ¼ mile radius – provide safe ped. Revised Goal 1.6 o Comment: A transit system with no clear goals for expanding • Construction detours not consistent and adequate for ADA citizens’ access not only to jobs and economic opportunities, Noted but specifically to food, child care, schools, and the community 2. What have we missed with the updates? Please provide comments. • Goal 8 – “sustainable” transportation is vague, replace terms as a whole for better inclusion, is a weak system. • Rideshare, ev charging stations, ride hailing drop off. See Goals 8.5 • Wants quantifiable goals (ex. 20% by 2020…) Added Noted. TDP will address. and 8.8 Transportation System Goal o Goal 6: Create a transit system that increases local and • Regional strategies and role of RTP – Is this intended to be within • Better marketing coordination – one central coordination for all regional mobility and provides a reliable and efficient city or county See goal 7.1 modes, European model. Noted alternative for Charlottesville’s citizens. • Need to state vision better in other chapters Noted • 7.7 and 7.5 need updating, question about ¼ mile radius Revised. Noted. • Goal 8 Noted – Comment unclear. 3. What should be removed from the chapter updates? Please provide Add 6.11: Evaluate transit services to food access points • Talk about universal design, all ages and abilities – Revised goal 1 o comments. including, emergency food banks, soup kitchens, nutritional • BPAC as review. Noted services, community and school gardens, farmers markets, and • Sidewalk closures and traffic management Noted – Comment • 5.4 Parking remove. Revised Goal 5.3. grocery stores. unclear. • Look at places to remove qualifiers. Noted Noted. TDP has completed this evaluation. • Goal 2.10 “Encourage…” Noted. • Competition for curb space. Noted. • Consider replacing sustainable with green infrastructure. Noted. • Consider removing ¼ mile radius. Revised Goal 1.6 o Add 6.12: Incorporate bus stops to the maximum extent possible to food access points including, emergency food • Have comp plan be more specific/quantifiable/measurable. Noted. • Roanoke rail extension – has been completed. Revised banks, soup kitchens, nutritional services, community and • AV vehicles for public transit (modeling for JAUNT) – door to door • Metering parking – put back? Revised Goal 5.3 school gardens, farmers markets, and grocery stores. Noted – Comment unclear. • “as appropriate” – take out, not quantifiable Noted. Future planning efforts plan to serve as many of these as • “encourage” – wrong word? Noted. • Rt. 29 improvements (tweak). Noted. possible. • Emerging technology See Goal 8.8 • Parking meters – 5.4 should this still be there Revised Goal 5.3 • Ride sharing See Goal 8.8 • Unnecessary qualifiers not really a vision. Noted. 2. March 7th Boards and Commissions Work Session • Electric vehicle charging stations See Goals 8.5 and 8.8 • Mobility as a service – European model Noted. • Regional strategies/transportation partnership Noted • Not just meet minimum ADA, require universal design for all See Comments • AVs/parking Noted – Comment unclear. revision to 1.6 Individual Responses • Competition for curb space Noted. • Remove huge buses running empty Noted. 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Is parking pricing in the comp plan already? It should be. • Parking metering pilot example Revised Goal 5.3 See Goal 6. • Note important regional destinations. Noted. 4. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • Universal design, not just meeting ADA See Goal 1. • Seem minimal Noted. • 6.10 – coordinate marketing and communication • Addition – urban development Noted. • Suburban partnership (county/city?) Noted. transit/bike/walk/lots See 3.9/3.10 • Goal 8 – more specific on new modes of transportation (uber, • Need more quantified goals (e.g. mode split). See transportation emerging technologies). Revised Goal 8.8 • Political will, inertia, funding Noted. goal • Marketing See 3.9/3.10 • Sustainable – term vague Noted and agreed. • AV impacts are largely unknown but future proofing is wise Noted. • Same as always – implementation gaps, funding, and political will • Why are we running big buses? Noted. • Minimal Noted. Noted. • Encourage UVA to have students live closer to UVA to decrease • Goals – more measurable (quantifiable) See transportation goal traffic. Noted. • Political will Noted. • Funding Noted. • Add 6.11: Evaluate transit services to food access points including, • Are park and ride really feasible in a city setting? Noted. • Shifting mindset Noted. emergency food banks, soup kitchens, nutritional services, • *Park and ride to serve bikes/ Pedestrians also --- trail connections • Bus routes not working at airport Noted. community and school gardens, farmers markets, and grocery to park and ride Noted. stores. (Charlottesville Food Justice Network) Noted. TDP has • Regional bus issues Noted. • Questions about how UVA is coordinating with strategic planning completed this evaluation. • Add 6.12: Incorporate bus stops to the maximum extent possible Noted. General Comments to food access points including, emergency food banks, soup • Happy to see some suggested changes have been incorporated 3. May 1st Buford Community Engagement Comments kitchens, nutritional services, community and school gardens, Noted. farmers markets, and grocery stores. (Charlottesville Food Justice Individual Responses Network) Comment added. Future planning efforts plan to serve as Group Discussion Notes many of these as possible. 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Charlottesville Food Justice Network rep has suggestion of transportation chapter. Noted. Comments incorporated in Goal 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. 4. May 10th City Space Community Engagement 6.10 Comments o Provided detailed draft with revised language 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? o Draft details desires of organization Individual Responses o Suggestions include Group Discussion Notes 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates?  Invest in SRTS, Bike/ pedestrian plan (continue • The transportation system needs to be changed Noted. efforts of last plan) • Moves nodes away from center of town Noted. See Land Use • Investments in SRTS See 1.8 • Concern with public transportation availability in areas where Chapter • Concern for people that don’t have automobiles Noted. carless individuals live. Noted. • Concerned about moving parking out of Fontaine Research Park • Pay more attention to community garden with focus on access to • Community gardens / school gardens to provide access to food Noted. food See new goal 6.12 where transit is limited Noted. • * Logical to have park and ride in suburban areas Noted. 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • Concerns with planning of bus routes. Noted. See Goal 6 and TDP • Is bike/ped plan as consideration given to impacts of surrounding the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • Desires voiced for express lanes for buses, transit Noted. See Goal roads Noted. 6 and TDP • Stribling is dangerous, cars don’t yield to pedestrians at Dirty • Concern about how bus routes are selected / planned • Hydraulic/ 250  poor pedestrian access, flow Noted. Nelly’s Noted. o Based on neighborhood needs or city wide? Noted. • How is coordination with BAR done? Noted. • Need more bike/ped on Avon Street corridor Noted. See Goal 6 and TDP • Advertise closing date for public comment Noted. • * Focus on sewer citizens Noted. • Concern about hydraulic 250 infrastructure Noted. • Smaller transportations systems (smaller buses and more stops) • Concern about effectiveness of crosswalks Noted. 5. May 12th Central Library Community Engagement Noted. o And why some pedestrian lighting was removed Comments • * More bike/ped connections across/thru railroad and around 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? Individual Responses congested areas Noted. • * The effect of growth is the county as the City of Charlottesville • Parking is a major issue Noted. See Goal 5 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? Noted. • Questions w/ feasibility of park and ride in City of Charlottesville. 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from • * Implementation of plans that have been incorporated Noted. Noted. the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • * Space/limited ROW/separate bike ped from cars Noted. • Desire to look at comparable city in region / nationwide to see how then address need Noted. 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? • * Educating drivers about laws with peds and bikes Noted. • A transit system with no clear goals for expanding citizens’ access • Questions regarding interaction + mutual contribution Noted. Group Discussion Notes not only to jobs and economic opportunities, but specifically to • Architectural board incorporated to plan? Noted. food, childcare, schools, and the community as a whole for better • Closing date for public comment? Noted. inclusion, is a weak system. (Charlottesville Food Justice Network) • TJPDC role in plan? See goal 7 • Noted. • Parking is a major issue Noted. 6. May 29th Belmont Arts Community Engagement • No clear goals for expanding citizens access to food child care schools Noted. See TDP o Add 2.11, Delete 5.8 from Parking: Develop suburban park and Discussion ride facilities and provide express transit service to and from these o As a whole need better inclusion Individual Responses during peak demand periods to reduce traffic congestion into and • Lack of education for PED/ bike rules Noted. out of the City’s urban core and employment areas. 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • More clear transitions for when bike land ends Noted. o 5.8 remains in Goal 5. • Better coordination between county and city when it comes to • There is not base data to establish where we are w/ infrastructure trails Noted. See Goal 7. to identify needs/goals. See Appendix. Kurt Keesecker’s Transportation Comments 4-24-2018 • Higher density to eliminate commuting See Goal 2 • Technology will not address many issues Noted. • Park and Ride cooperation with county for park and ride needed • Add this phrase or similar (“… with emphasis on Downtown and 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be removed from o Development hampers implementation of plans of this other strategically important nodes identified on the Future Land the chapter updates? Please provide comments. nature Noted. Use Map”) to the end of the following goals: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.9, 2.10, • Increase bus frequency? • No base data is provided. See appendix. 5.1, 5.5, 5.7, 6.6, 7.3, 9.3, o More consistent transit stops/ times See Goal 6.1/6.2 Revised. Goal 2 to incorporate this idea. Adding that statement to 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? o Seems as if stops are diminishing. Noted. all goals was cumbersome to the reader. • Proactive better than reactive to safety concerns Noted. Revised. • City government/ organization: zoning ordinance Noted. • Quicken staff response Noted. • Add this phrase (“… with emphasis on routes/ corridors connecting Group Discussion Notes • More emphasis on safety Noted. downtown and other strategically important nodes identified on • Economic growth, development and funding all viewed as barriers the Future Land Use Map”) to the end of the following goals: 3.4, • In the interest of safety and quality of life for residents, reduce the to implementations Noted. 4.3, 6.7, 7.6, 9.4 speed limit on rose hill drive to 25mph and add a 4 way stop along • Demographic response may not be truly representative of Revised. the way several traffic calming islands bump outs and a sidewalk population Noted. Revised. Goal 2 to incorporate this idea. Adding that statement to from rugby ave to burley field on west side of street • Transparency in implementations Noted. all goals was cumbersome to the reader. o Also trees along burly filed for pedestrians • Better communication on transparency of ongoing projects Noted. • Generally I’d like to see parking requirements reduced so more Better protection of pedestrians on rugby ave – maybe • Communication!!! Noted. land can be dedicated to building area… consider maximum pass. Noted. • Better public/ private with grass roots involvement Noted. parking allowed Noted. • Reduce speed limit on Elliot from 35 to 25 we now have lots of • Build trust with organizations who can aid in outreach Noted. • Also consider parking “in lieu of” fees to pay for district parking homes built close to the road and children can easily be hit by • Fill voids left by rapid development Noted. strategies and infrastructure centered on the nodes identified on speeding cars Noted. the Future Land Use Map Noted. • Emerging Tech seems too advanced Noted. 7. Additional Comments • Consider measure able implementation, articulate it IN THIS o Focus on current infrastructure (sidewalks signals and Kathy Galvin’s Transportation Comments 11-27-2017 CHAPTER (not a separate one). shared use) Noted. See overall transportation system goal that was moved from • Goals are contradicted by actions of the city (park and ride vs Appendix to Transportation Chapter. parking requirement) Noted. o Goal 2: Improve quality of life and promote active living by • Rugby ave bridge project did not implement streets that work plan reducing automobile congestion and expanding multi-modal Noted. transportation options via integrated land use and transportation planning and community design. • Implemented plans during design + construction Noted. o See revised Goal 2 • Construction activities should not hamper bike/ PED access. Agreed and Noted. o 2.6: Promote urban design techniques, such as placing parking • How does transportation get connected to other goals/ places of behind buildings, reducing setbacks, building active, transparent city (food access, community gardens, farmers market). Noted. See and habitable spaces at the ground floor level and increasing Goal 6.10 network connectivity, to create a more pedestrian friendly streetscape and to reduce speeds on high volume roadways. o See revised Goal 2 7. Historic Preservation and Urban Design policy in light of the City’s then-current GHG emission reduction commitments and CAP. Add note to RE: • Goal 1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.3 should be removed (Note. Goal 1 introduces Urban Design goals; Goal 1.4 promotes Historic Preservation and Design policies and walkability; Goal 1.5 encourages art in public spaces; Goal 1.6 1. E-Mailed Draft Chapter Comments decisions should take into consideration the city’s encourages creation of public space; Goal 2.3 encourages • 1.4: Develop pedestrian‐friendly environments in GHG emission reduction goals. historic markers, etc., and other ways to inform community Charlottesville that connect neighborhoods to community about historic sites. facilities, to commercial areas and employment centers, and 2. March 7th Boards and Commissions Work Session Comments 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? that connect neighborhoods and residents of all ages to each Individual Responses other, to promote a healthier community. • Not letting the status quo absorb innovation Noted • 1.8 Use Small Area Plans city-wide to safeguard the City’s 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? • Complexity, zoning/land use, code, lack of metrics Noted historic urban landscapes even as the Charlottesville • Generally agreeable Noted Group Discussion Notes community seeks to expand the City’s stock of affordable • Particularly agree with prioritizing CLR for Downtown Mall housing; foster economic development opportunities and prioritizing unsurveyed neighborhoods for survey Noted • Prioritize Downtown Mall In Plan, see Goal 4 without displacement; and encourage context-sensitive • Downtown Mall – cultural landscape In Plan, see Goal 4 • Prioritize un-surveyed neighborhoods In Plan, see Goal 4 planning and contemporary design. HP and design related • Not all goals are specific (measurable – need more specific • Cultural and landscape resources are critical elements of comments are in the current plan. Need to add reference to Noted what makes city special. (Add note to RE: 4. Importance of Small Area Plan. • Be clear about public vs private Noted cultural and natural resources, landscapes and open spaces as historic elements to be surveyed and protected. • Recommendations from the Tree Commission: 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be • Lots of overlap with city departments. (In Plan, see Goal 7, o 7.10: (retain 2013 Encourage retaining and removed from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. but could be strengthened. replenishing shade trees, particularly large trees • Vision setting and long range planning Noted o Need to talk to each other and get on the same page where possible, in all neighborhoods as we strive to • Historic preservation and urban design are different things. Noted make the City more walkable. Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the importance of preserving open space, Add note to RE: 1. recognize the value of blending new with Missing in Draft: green space, public places, and existing trees and old; incorporate preservation into urban Design and Urban • Continuous review of design guidelines – must keep them landscaping while incorporating and including these Design into preservation. current and evolving In Plan, see Goal 7 in new development projects, both public and • Should look at using zoning to help former residential areas • Lobbying the General Assembly to protect/encourage tools private. to return to their historic use – now that housing is short and and incentives for historic preservation. Add note to RE: 6. office space more available (Little High, MJ, JPA, etc. . Add Monitor state and federal level policy and legislative changes • Comments from Charlottesville Climate Collaborative para about endangered neighborhoods impacting Historic Preservation. Be an advocate both for o Historic Preservation & Urban Design: The positive • Develop a standards manual by PLACE – street furniture, positive changes and against those that threaten the existing impact of green buildings and low-carbon lights, etc. Add to note RE: 7. Emphasize specific goals for policies, programs, policies and regulations. transportation modes is strengthened by an overall guidelines • Clear goals for a long range planning effort. Not just historic urban design that facilitates low-carbon choices. • Protect/encourage trees and natural areas. Add note to RE: preservation, but overall design characteristics of the city Improving quality of life through green streets, urban 1. Recognize the importance of preserving open space, green Noted design, and multiple transportation options adds space, public places, and existing trees and landscaping while • Emphasis on place making and specific goals for urban economic and social value to surrounding properties incorporating and including these in new development renewal In Plan, see Goal 1 and community. Add note to RE: 9 projects, both public and private • Consider putting things back to what was there (i.e. Vinegar • Use alleys for historic purpose Noted Hill Noted o Recommendation: The Comprehensive Plan should • Need to continuously update Comp Plan, incentive, lobbyist • Do more with design than just preserve – not everything require the city, when making Historic Preservation for money Noted necessarily deserves historic designation. Add note to RE: 1. and Urban Design decisions and policy, to consider • Same goals in 2013 Noted Recognize the value of blending new with old; incorporate and report the climate emissions impacts of that preservation into urban Design and Urban Design into o Theme is related but not sure why it is its own • See Preservation Piedmont letter – inventory of city owned preservation. section land in city In Plan, see Goal 4 • Nurture and take into account the edges near various • Urban design shouldn’t be central to historic preservation. • Anticipate future zoning needs in the next 20-25 years Noted districts. Add part bout endangered neighborhoods Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the value of blending new with • If things implode – big city collapse then no one wants to live • Allow merge and overlap of some uses Noted old; incorporate preservation into urban Design and Urban here. Noted • Within neighborhoods look for opportunities to add things Design into preservation. • Not sure why Urban Design is the top bullet [in 2013 Plan]. that maybe aren’t there now Noted • Protections for historic fabric system weaken Noted This is related, but not sure why it has doesn’t have its own • Make use of small area plans. Add note to RE: 1 • Some goals have actionable strategies for the staff/ public, section. Urban design should not be central to historic • Develop neighborhood conservation plans (look to others remain as goals Noted preservation. Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the value of Galveston, TX as example Noted • Category for “endangered neighborhoods” Add para about blending new with old; incorporate preservation into urban • Allow flexibility that allows creativity In Plan, see Goal 1 endangered neighborhoods Design and Urban Design into preservation. • Work towards viewing neighborhoods and districts not just o Define “endangered neighborhoods” (ie fifeville • Pretty good but devil is in the details. Noted as individual properties by recognize other and diverse • Strengthen the first two bullets Noted. Reference to one • Separate Urban Design from Historic Preservation. Noted elements that together form the neighborhoods character, page summary. Surveying of historic neighborhoods. not just large old, historic homes Noted • Worry about neighborhoods Noted 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be • Look at preserving elements such as tree canopy and • City staff be more attentive about getting word out (about removed from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. landscapes. Foster/form a sense of public ownership of city’s development and new projects Add note to RE: 2 public spaces in the character. Add note to RE: 1. Recognize • How to better inform neighborhoods about new projects • Consider having endangered neighborhoods. Study those the importance of preserving open space, green space, public worth stating in plan. Add note to RE: 2 neighborhoods. Add part about endangered neighborhoods places, and existing trees and landscaping while • Losing sense of place Noted • Inventory city owned property incorporating and including these in new development • Historic value of the neighborhood is of individual properties At meeting this was in reference to affordable housing. projects, both public and private. Worth stating in plan. Shared with Housing Coordinator. • We are site by site demolishing sites without looking at how • Value of the sum of its parts Noted • Consider “endangered neighborhoods” as a category Add they fit into the historic fabric Noted • Re-zoning impact of gentrification Noted para about endangered neighborhoods o Example: Old industrial or service buildings on Water • Transition zones – intrusion of taller buildings into o Ex. Star Hill, Rose hill, 10th and Page, Fifeville Street. When doing neighborhood surveys loot at neighborhoods Add para about endangered neighborhoods = • Share information with neighborhoods in a way that will get what might often be overlooked or ignored Noted • Places that maybe aren’t that old, but have character that to them Add note to RE: 2 • Don’t let plans become a dormant document Noted needs preservation Consider inserting: Recognize the value • Please consider all of Preservation Piedmont’s suggested • Possibly need an urban design component of the chapter and coherent fabric of established neighborhoods that may provisions PP Noted not be considered or designated as historic. • Form and mass regulation of development is a huge problem • Develop an urban design manual for the entire city Noted • Downtown mall – ways to make that an interesting place, that is being deferred by this process (except in principal bring it to the surface In Plan, see Goal 4 Noted 3. May 1st Buford Community Engagement Comments • Visual displays of history In Plan, see Goal 2 • Better tours and guided walks of historic sites in the city In • Inventory all city-owned property, including property owned Plan, see Goal 2 by local housing agencies (CHA, CHRA, etc. Inventory empty Individual Responses lots and unoccupied/condemned houses. This would help • Provide something for everyone Noted 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? with identification of possible low income housing. [These • Neighborhoods are getting more active Noted comments were about affordable housing.] Shared with • Designate endangered neighborhoods, early notification • Need more education of the community about planning and Housing Coordinator. Noted, socio-economic Noted, having sense of place (In Plan, zoning Noted • Share information with neighborhoods [about proposed see Goal 1 , update Mary Joy’s stuff Noted,, Downtown Mall • Affordability – we want people to live here Noted development/changes/etc.] sooner and in a way that will get (In Plan see Goal 4 • Look at Arlington and how they addressed affordable to them. Add note to RE: 2 • Not sure why urban design is the top bullet Noted housing Shared with Housing Coordinator. • Consider establish “endangered neighborhoods” as a • Intent is to infill. We don’t have infill of historic fabric. Add neighbors, can’t stop time so allow land resource to produce category. Example, Starr Hill, Rose Hill, 10th and Page, note to RE: 1. Recognize the value of blending new with old; better assets Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the importance of Fifeville. Add para about endangered neighborhoods incorporate preservation into urban Design and Urban preserving open space, green space, public places, and • Promote the history of the DT Mall through art or use Design into preservation. existing trees and landscaping while incorporating and technology (smart phone links, etc. Add note to RE: 4. o A lot of design has nothing to do with historic including these in new development projects, both public Importance of telling the mall's story preservation and private. • Need transition zones between commercial and residential o Some places in the city do make historic preservation element 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be areas. [re: “endangered neighborhoods”] Add para about o Not always linked removed from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. endangered neighborhoods • Worried about intrusion of taller buildings. Losing sense of • Fabric of city is held together by neighborhoods. Sense of • Too site specific – need more of an overall ethic/ approach place. Add para about endangered neighborhoods commonality that is not necessarily a historic building issue. Noted So much new development that neighborhoods are losing grounds. Add part about endangered neighborhoods 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? o Very diverse neighborhoods (i.e. Belmont vs goals? • This chapter sets goals for places / neighborhoods but those Greenbrier • Create neighborhoods we need and want for 30-50 yrs while fail to be implemented because the plan does not have the • If we want walkable neighborhoods look at what is successful preserving and maintaining high character Noted specificity that would define what is mean at a project/ in city Noted neighborhood/ transition Noted • Making a place walkable begins with good design Noted Group Discussion Notes • Can we make have a target maximum population, based on Group Discussion Notes available infrastructure Noted • Promote history of the mall through art or tech, information • Where is historic fabric – it is about neighborhoods – comp 6. May 29th Belmont Arts Community Engagement Comments In Plan, see Goal 2 plan does talk about spaces Noted o Missing is specificity of different and various places Individual Responses • Transition zones between commercial and residential areas Add para about endangered neighborhoods throughout the city Noted 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? o Show all the fabrics that are distinct to Charlottesville 4. May 10th City Space Community Engagement Comments Noted 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be • How can neighborhoods respond to different types removed from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. Individual Responses development and design Add para about endangered 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? neighborhoods • Living neighborhoods – not Ryan Home development in the Group Discussion Notes 2. What have we missed with the updates? What should be county Noted removed from the chapter updates? Please provide comments. • I have worked with Kay Slaughter and Preservation Piedmont • People forget that something was planned/approved to submit document with detailed editing and additions for 3. What are the greatest challenges to achieving the chapter goals? somewhere and years later it gets built and they are upset this chapter Noted about it Add note to RE: 2 o A couple points to add Group Discussion Notes  Add rose hill drive as well as cherry ave to list of “entrance • Historic Preservation Plan 5. May 12th Central Library Community Engagement Comments corridors” Cherry Ave in plan; check Rose Hill criteria o City being run over with development Noted Individual Responses  Provide information and support to neighborhoods which are • Anything about Historic Preservation and Urban Design considering applying to be designated as historic Noted 1. What reactions do you have to the recommended updates? conservation districts or architectural design control districts o How does it differ from land use plan? Noted – or if they have individual properties they’d live to be o Is it more a 3D plan? Noted • Nuts and bolts of how to utilize land resources and at same designated Noted • Principle of all chapters affect land use plan. Has land use time have a sustainable way of protecting neighborhood feel • Goal 5 of Chapter 7 of Comp Plan Noted plan involved with what has been shared Noted and sense of place, pocket parks, greenspace revitalize o How will this be achieved Noted o What is the action of this in the comp plan Noted • New green spaces for different characters or public figures o 1.4: Develop pedestrian‐friendly environments in Charlottesville • Possible rezoning of commercial corridor in historic Belmont (Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the importance of preserving that connect neighborhoods to community facilities, to neighborhood Noted open space, green space, public places, and existing trees commercial areas and employment centers, and that connect and landscaping while incorporating and including these in neighborhoods and residents of all ages to each other, to promote • Keeping neighborhoods at the scale of the human In Plan see a healthier community. Goal 5 new development projects, both public and private. • The concern of meshing neighborhoods and commercialism • Creating new spaces Noted o 1.8 Use Small Area Plans city-wide to safeguard the City’s historic Add para about endangered neighborhoods o Commercial industries are buying space, even though urban landscapes even as the Charlottesville community seeks to o Help protect neighborhood fabric it seems there are no more empty parcels – how is expand the City’s stock of affordable housing; foster economic o Be more concise and clearly identify this this happening? development opportunities without displacement; and encourage commercial/neighborhood intent • Developers are creating ‘by-right” areas Noted context-sensitive planning and contemporary design. • Language in comp plan of appropriateness of programmatic • Better determine the scale of new development. Write uses in neighborhoods Noted zoning code such that better judgement can be used and not Kurt Keesecker’s Historic Preservation Comments o Interpretation and intent of zoning Noted handcuffed by what developer wants and how they chose to • Add this phrase or similar “… with emphasis on downtown o The issue lies more in zoning than in the comp plan interpret the part of code. Noted and other strategically important nodes identified on Future Land Use Map” to the end of the following goals: 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, Noted • Interpreting zoning is a problem, previse zoning to be more 1.6, 4.2, 5.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1. Goals1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 4.2, 8.1, 8.2, o There is a need for new regulations in terms of zoning predictable and cannot be interpreted in a way that is should apply to entire city. Maybe add to 5.3, 9.1 Noted detrimental to the community Noted • Consider measurable implementation, articulate it IN THIS  Tying together of uses Noted • Would form based code fix the above? Noted CHAPTER not a separate chapter. consider  Where? How? What? • Doesn’t state and national registrar designation help protect • A clear and gentle transition between urban areas and neighborhoods without local designation? Noted neighborhoods Add para about endangered neighborhoods • Preservation of green space and open space is important • Recognize Virginia Landmark Register and National Register Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the importance of preserving of Historic Properties in land use transition Noted open space, green space, public places, and existing trees o Rezoning Noted and landscaping while incorporating and including these in o Form based code Add: In a form based code, account new development projects, both public and private. for principles of Historic Preservation and Urban • Lots of focus on historic preservation is not addressing the Design need for new places – the creation of new open spaces and o Keep goals consistent with public Noted civic spaces the Comp Plan says enhance existing character • So much in comp plan, yet there is no stepping in or action In Plan see Goal 1 from PC Noted • Some areas of the city seem to be viewed as disposable Add • More specific goals within the comp plan Noted para about endangered neighborhoods • The “disappearing” of green spaces • Industries and enterprises are buying more space, develop it, o Green spaces are becoming pocket parks and and not leaving open space Incorporate into 1 courtyards, rather than being open, public spaces • Need public investment in civic/open space In Plan, see Goal (Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the importance of 1 preserving open space, green space, public places, • Developers need to provide on their property At meeting and existing trees and landscaping while this was in reference to affordable housing. Shared with incorporating and including these in new Housing Coordinator. development projects, both public and private. • Does the comp plan focus on either historic preservation or 7. Additional Comments urban design? (Add note to RE: 1. Recognize the value of blending new with old; incorporate preservation into urban Kathy Galvin’s Historic Preservation Comments 11-27-2018 Design and Urban Design into preservation.