Charlottesville, Virginia, spent most of a decade revising its zoning code.

It held endless community meetings.

It gave opponents ample opportunity to make their case.

They lost.

But a handful of rich homeowners sued and have gotten the new Charlottesville zoning code overturned on a technicality

https://communityengagement.substack.com/p/june-30-2025-judge-worrell-voids?r=blgf

https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/newsletter/nine-charlottesville-residents-who-own-expensive-properties-are-suing-to-stop-upzoning/

9 millionaire homeowners, who couldn’t persuade Charlottesville residents and couldn’t win at the ballot box, decided they would throw everything they had to nullify their defeat.

And it worked

  • Cypher@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I would put good money on them being rural properties with historically low value, given this is all over an expansion project.

    But what’s still clear is that you have zero understanding of wealth.

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      10 hours ago

      Why would rural homeowners be filing a suit about a 10 square mile town they don’t live in?

      The population density for Charlottesville is over 4500/sq mile. Nobody there is living rurally.

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        36 minutes ago

        It’s an expansion project. I guess that’s one way to tell me you can’t read.