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Residents urge enforcement as VMFA foundation seeks parcel use change in Museum District
Summary
A neighborhood representative told Richmond City Council that the VMFA foundation’s plan to build a warehouse on residential land contradicts long-standing ordinances that reserved the parcel for parking and landscaping, and asked the city to enforce prior restrictions and provide public review.
Thomas Courtney, speaking during public comment as a neighborhood representative, asked Richmond City Council to review and enforce earlier ordinances that, he said, limited a parcel in the Museum District to parking and landscaping for the benefit of a commercial corner property.
Courtney said the parcel had been governed by a 1976 and 1987 ordinance that restricted its use to parking and landscaping improvements intended to serve a commercial property at the corner (now a school). He…
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