AGENDA DATE: 4/20/2022
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Update on the Southwood Redevelopment Project
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SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Receive an update on the Southwood Redevelopment Project
ITEM TYPE: Regular Information Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Walker, Herrick, Dimock, Filardo, Rapp, Ragsdale, Pethia
PRESENTER (S): Stacy Pethia
LEGAL REVIEW: Not Required
REVIEWED BY: Jeffrey B. Richardson
BACKGROUND: The Southwood Mobile Home Park ("Southwood") is located on Hickory Street south of I-64 and east of Old Lynchburg Road in the Southern Urban Neighborhood and is located in one of the County's Development Areas. Southwood currently has 341 mobile homes, more than 1,500 residents, and is the County's largest concentration of substandard housing. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, Inc. ("Habitat") purchased Southwood in 2007 with a stated intention of redeveloping the site into a mixed income, mixed-use development, removing all 341 mobile homes and replacing them with a variety of housing unit types, including site-built homes.
In October 2016, the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution supporting a collaborative redevelopment process with Habitat for Southwood. Following this action, the Board included Southwood Phase 1 as part of its Fiscal Year 2020 - 2023 Strategic Plan under Revitalizing Aging Urban Neighborhoods. In January 2018, the Board approved an action plan and authorized the County Executive to sign a performance agreement on behalf of the County in which the County contributed $675,000 to Habitat to assist with costs associated with the preparation and submission of a complete rezoning application for Phase 1 of the project.
The rezoning for Phase 1 (ZMA2018-003) was approved by the Board in August 2018 and included approximately 33.96 acres of undeveloped land within Southwood. The approved rezoning to the Neighborhood Model District (NMD) included a maximum of 450 units and 50,000 square feet of non-residential. The area ...
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