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Charlottesville reaches settlement in zoning lawsuit; council authorizes $650,000 for infrastructure and traffic studies
Summary
The city attorney presented a settlement in White v. Charlottesville resolving procedural claims tied to the 2023 zoning ordinance; council approved a resolution and a separate $650,000 allocation for VDOT scoping and growth‑model studies that the settlement requires.
Charlottesville moved to settle the long‑running lawsuit known locally as the zoning case, White v. Charlottesville, and authorized a $650,000 contingency appropriation to fund required transportation and infrastructure studies.
City Attorney John Maddox explained that plaintiffs challenged the city's 2023 zoning code and that the court had narrowed issues to questions about whether the city complied with certain Virginia code submission and capacity‑analysis requirements. Rather than proceed to a multi‑week trial in 2026 and extensive discovery, plaintiffs and the city negotiated a settlement that…
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