AGENDA DATE: 9/15/2021
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Southwood Phase 1 Update
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SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Update of Southwood Phase 1 since the rezoning approval
ITEM TYPE: Regular Information Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Walker, Kamptner, Herrick, Filardo, McCulley, Rapp, Nedostup
PRESENTER (S): Megan Nedostup
LEGAL REVIEW: Yes
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 and 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.
The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution in October of 2016 supporting a collaborative redevelopment process with Habitat for Southwood. Subsequent to that support, the Board included Southwood Phase 1 as part of its Strategic Plan under Revitalizing 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 in its costs to prepare and submit a complete rezoning application for Phase 1 of the redevelopment of Southwood ("Phase 1").
The rezoning for Phase 1 (ZMA2018-003) was approved by the Board on August 21, 2019, and included approximately 33.96 acres of undeveloped land within Southwood. The area where the existing mobile homes are located was not included as part of Phase 1. The approved rezoning was from R2 Residential to Neighborhood Model District (NMD) and inclu...
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