https://cvillepedia.org/index.php?title=Critical_Slopes&feed=atom&action=historyCritical Slopes - Revision history2024-03-28T19:16:48ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.3https://cvillepedia.org/index.php?title=Critical_Slopes&diff=31703&oldid=prevEclaudi22 at 17:23, 12 August 20132013-08-12T17:23:59Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Albemarle Board of Supervisors]] passed a resolution of intent to review the county's critical slopes ordinance on April 1, 2009. The county has hosted three public meetings on critical slopes since then, in December 2009, February 2010, and July 2013. {{As of|2013|August|13}}, County staff is suggesting that the county's definition of a critical slope (any hillside with a 25% slope or greater) remain the same, but that critical slopes be classified as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">belonging </del>either <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to a </del>"preserved" or "managed" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">category</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Development would not </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">allowed on preserved slopes, which are </del>part of a system of hills or have a water feature. Managed slopes could be developed by right <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">if development standards are met</del>.<ref>{{cite web|title=Albemarle Planning Commission Agenda for 13 Aug 2013|url=http://www.albemarle.org/upload/images/Forms_Center/Departments/Community_Development/Forms/PC_Reports/ZTA-12-12_Critical_Slopes_August_13_Staff_Report.pdf|author=|work=|publisher=County of Albemarle|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Albemarle Board of Supervisors]] passed a resolution of intent to review the county's critical slopes ordinance on April 1, 2009. The county has hosted three public meetings on critical slopes since then, in December 2009, February 2010, and July 2013. {{As of|2013|August|13}}, County staff is suggesting that the county's definition of a critical slope (any hillside with a 25% slope or greater) remain the same, but that critical slopes be classified as either "preserved" or "managed". <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Preserved slopes might </ins>be part of a system of hills or have a water feature<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; development would not be allowed there</ins>. Managed slopes<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, which might be man-made, located in single family residential lots, or have been disturbed in the past, </ins>could be developed by right.<ref>{{cite web|title=Albemarle Planning Commission Agenda for 13 Aug 2013|url=http://www.albemarle.org/upload/images/Forms_Center/Departments/Community_Development/Forms/PC_Reports/ZTA-12-12_Critical_Slopes_August_13_Staff_Report.pdf|author=|work=|publisher=County of Albemarle|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before a January 2012 Virginia Supreme Court case, the planning commissions in both Albemarle and Charlottesville had been responsible for granting critical slopes waivers. In ''Sinclair v. New Cingular, et al.'', the court ruled that planning commissions were purely advisory and could not grant waivers. The case arose when an [[Albemarle County]] resident and [[University of Virginia]] law professor, Kent Sinclair, found he had no way to appeal a waiver granted for the construction of a cell tower on the property adjacent to his own.<ref>{{cite web|title=Court leaves planning commissions “dead in the water”|url=http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/5919-sinclair_supreme_court/|author=Kurt Walters|work=|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=29 Jan 2012|accessdate=12 Aug 2013}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Before a January 2012 Virginia Supreme Court case, the planning commissions in both Albemarle and Charlottesville had been responsible for granting critical slopes waivers. In ''Sinclair v. New Cingular, et al.'', the court ruled that planning commissions were purely advisory and could not grant waivers. The case arose when an [[Albemarle County]] resident and [[University of Virginia]] law professor, Kent Sinclair, found he had no way to appeal a waiver granted for the construction of a cell tower on the property adjacent to his own.<ref>{{cite web|title=Court leaves planning commissions “dead in the water”|url=http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/5919-sinclair_supreme_court/|author=Kurt Walters|work=|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=29 Jan 2012|accessdate=12 Aug 2013}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Planning Commission considered <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">22 </del>waivers between the time the city's critical slope ordinance was adopted in May 2006 and when <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it began its </del>review in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=City slopes ordinance discussion to continue into 2011|url=http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/6344-slopes-debate/1346158171000/|author=Sean Tubbs|work=|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=6 Jan 2011|accessdate=12 Aug 2013}}</ref> During that time, the commission approved <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">19 </del>of them.<ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dixit, Rachana. "</del>City <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Developers on a Slippery Slope? </del>| <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Charlottesville Daily Progress." Charlottesville News, Sports, Business, Events and Jobs | Charlottesville Daily Progress. 21 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <</del>http://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www2</del>.dailyprogress.com<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/cdp</del>/news/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">local</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">article/city_developers_on_a_slippery_slope/57425/></del>.</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Planning Commission considered <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">23 </ins>waivers between the time the city's critical slope ordinance was adopted in May 2006 and when <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the ordinance came under </ins>review in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">August </ins>2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=City slopes ordinance discussion to continue into 2011|url=http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/6344-slopes-debate/1346158171000/|author=Sean Tubbs|work=|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=6 Jan 2011|accessdate=12 Aug 2013}}</ref> During that time, the commission approved <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">20 </ins>of them<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, deferred two, and denied only one</ins>.<ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name="dixit"</ins>><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{cite-progress|title=</ins>City <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">panel tours sites as steep slopes rules under review</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">url=</ins>http://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.dailyprogress.com/news/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">city-panel-tours-sites-as-steep-slopes-rules-under-review</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">article_301c3935-ad52-58ad-9fa6-9e219dc5fddb</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">html|author=Rachana Dixit|pageno=|printdate=|publishdate=24 Aug 2010|accessdate=12 Aug 2013}}</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Southern Environmental Law Center]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has been leading </del>the charge to rewrite the ordinance in order to make it more stringent. Former Kay Slaughter <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has </del>appeared before the [[Planning Commission|Charlottesville Planning Commission]] and the [[City Council]] with her suggestions.<ref>Tubbs, Sean. "Environmental Community Demands Strengthening of City’s Slopes Ordinance." Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center. 15 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2010/06/steep-slopes.html>.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Southern Environmental Law Center]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lead </ins>the charge to rewrite the ordinance in order to make it more stringent. Former Kay Slaughter appeared before the [[Planning Commission|Charlottesville Planning Commission]] and the [[City Council]] with her suggestions.<ref>Tubbs, Sean. "Environmental Community Demands Strengthening of City’s Slopes Ordinance." Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center. 15 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2010/06/steep-slopes.html>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> But developers and others opposed the revisions, saying that the strengthening the ordinance will make it an "anti-growth measure."<ref name="dixit"/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The [[Charlottesville City Council]] adopted a revised critical slopes ordinance on January 17, 2012. The updated ordinance defines critical slopes as any slope that has a grade of 25% or higher, is within 200 feet of a waterway, has a horizontal run of 20 feet or more, and has an area of 6,000 square feet or more. It grants the council the ability to waive the critical slopes ordinance's prohibition on development if the benefits to the public of disturbing the slope outweigh the benefits of an undisturbed slope or if the ordinance would unreasonably restrict the use of a property. The council may also impose conditions on the granting of a waiver.<ref>{{cite web|title=Adopted Ordinance|url=http://www.charlottesville.org/index.aspx?page=3140|author=|work=|publisher=City of Charlottesville|location=|publishdate=17 Jan 2012|accessdate=12 Aug 2013}}</ins></ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Southern Environmental Law Center]] has been leading the charge to rewrite the ordinance in order to make it more stringent. Former Kay Slaughter has appeared before the [[Planning Commission|Charlottesville Planning Commission]] and the [[City Council]] with her suggestions.<ref>Tubbs, Sean. "Environmental Community Demands Strengthening of City’s Slopes Ordinance." Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center. 15 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2010/06/steep-slopes.html>.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Southern Environmental Law Center]] has been leading the charge to rewrite the ordinance in order to make it more stringent. Former Kay Slaughter has appeared before the [[Planning Commission|Charlottesville Planning Commission]] and the [[City Council]] with her suggestions.<ref>Tubbs, Sean. "Environmental Community Demands Strengthening of City’s Slopes Ordinance." Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center. 15 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2010/06/steep-slopes.html>.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Before a January 2012 Virginia Supreme Court case, the planning commissions in both Albemarle and Charlottesville had been responsible for granting critical slopes waivers. In ''Sinclair v. New Cingular, et al.'', the court ruled that planning commissions were purely advisory and could not grant waivers. The case arose when an [[Albemarle County]] resident and [[University of Virginia]] law professor, Kent Sinclair, found he had no way to appeal a waiver granted for the construction of a cell tower on the property adjacent to his own.<ref>{{cite web|title=Court leaves planning commissions “dead in the water”|url=http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/5919-sinclair_supreme_court/|author=Kurt Walters|work=|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=29 Jan 2012|accessdate=12 Aug 2013}}</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Albemarle Board of Supervisors]] passed a resolution of intent to review the county's critical slopes ordinance on April 1, 2009. The county has hosted three public meetings on critical slopes since then, in December 2009, February 2010, and July 2013. {{As of|2013|August|13}} County staff is suggesting that the county's definition of a critical slope (any hillside with a 25% slope or greater) remain the same, but that critical slopes be classified as belonging either to a "preserved" or "managed" category. Development would not be allowed on preserved slopes, which are part of a system of hills or have a water feature. Managed slopes could be developed by right if development standards are met.<ref>{{cite web|title=Albemarle Planning Commission Agenda for 13 Aug 2013|url=http://www.albemarle.org/upload/images/Forms_Center/Departments/Community_Development/Forms/PC_Reports/ZTA-12-12_Critical_Slopes_August_13_Staff_Report.pdf|author=|work=|publisher=County of Albemarle|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Albemarle Board of Supervisors]] passed a resolution of intent to review the county's critical slopes ordinance on April 1, 2009. The county has hosted three public meetings on critical slopes since then, in December 2009, February 2010, and July 2013. {{As of|2013|August|13}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>County staff is suggesting that the county's definition of a critical slope (any hillside with a 25% slope or greater) remain the same, but that critical slopes be classified as belonging either to a "preserved" or "managed" category. Development would not be allowed on preserved slopes, which are part of a system of hills or have a water feature. Managed slopes could be developed by right if development standards are met.<ref>{{cite web|title=Albemarle Planning Commission Agenda for 13 Aug 2013|url=http://www.albemarle.org/upload/images/Forms_Center/Departments/Community_Development/Forms/PC_Reports/ZTA-12-12_Critical_Slopes_August_13_Staff_Report.pdf|author=|work=|publisher=County of Albemarle|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Planning Commission considered 22 waivers <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">between </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">time the city's critical slope </ins>ordinance was adopted in May 2006 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and when it began its review in 2010.<ref></ins>{{<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cite web|title=City slopes ordinance discussion to continue into 2011|url=http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/6344-slopes-debate/1346158171000/|author=Sean Tubbs|work=|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=6 Jan 2011|accessdate=12 Aug 2013</ins>}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref> During that time</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the commission approved </ins>19 of them<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins><ref>Dixit, Rachana. "City Developers on a Slippery Slope? | Charlottesville Daily Progress." Charlottesville News, Sports, Business, Events and Jobs | Charlottesville Daily Progress. 21 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/city_developers_on_a_slippery_slope/57425/>.</ref>. </div></td></tr>
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The Planning Commission has considered 22 waivers since the ordinance was adopted in May 2006{{fact}}, approving 19 of them<ref>Dixit, Rachana. "City Developers on a Slippery Slope? | Charlottesville Daily Progress." Charlottesville News, Sports, Business, Events and Jobs | Charlottesville Daily Progress. 21 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/city_developers_on_a_slippery_slope/57425/>.</ref>. <br />
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The [[Southern Environmental Law Center]] has been leading the charge to rewrite the ordinance in order to make it more stringent. Former Kay Slaughter has appeared before the [[Planning Commission|Charlottesville Planning Commission]] and the [[City Council]] with her suggestions<ref>Tubbs, Sean. "Environmental Community Demands Strengthening of City’s Slopes Ordinance." Charlottesville Tomorrow News Center. 15 June 2010. Web. 21 June 2010. <http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/charlottesville_tomorrow_/2010/06/steep-slopes.html>.</ref>. <br />
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