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Residents urge Williamsburg council to address rising student rentals, parking and party troubles in Indian Springs
Summary
Residents of Indian Springs told council members investor-owned student rentals and a proposed three-property development near the Hornsby House are creating parking, noise and safety problems and asked the city to enforce codes and consider new tools such as party permits.
Residents of the Indian Springs neighborhood told the Williamsburg City Council at its work session that investor-owned student rental properties and a proposed three-property development around the Hornsby House are turning long-standing family blocks into party corridors and causing parking and safety problems.
The speakers said absentee landlords are buying multiple adjacent houses and converting them to rentals aimed at William & Mary students. "When 4 or 5 students live in a house without a landlord, the house is sometimes used as an off campus fraternity or sorority," said Henry Hart, who gave his address as 309 Indian Springs Road. Several speakers described large daytime and nighttime parties, public urination, trash and repeated police calls.
The issue, residents told the council, is both scale and clustering: properties bought and developed specifically for student…
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