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Neighbor raises concerns about VMFA expansion, property acquisitions and zoning enforcement
Summary
A First District resident asked council to press the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and its foundation for clearer community communication, raised alleged zoning violations and potential conflicts of interest involving museum-affiliated advisors.
A First District resident used the public-comment period to raise land-use and transparency concerns about the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) expansion and related property acquisitions.
Thomas Courtney told the council that the VMFA Foundation, a private entity affiliated with the museum, had amassed nearly all properties on the 2800 to 2900 block of Grove Avenue and that the…
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