During a nearly seven-hour meeting Tuesday night, the Charlottesville Planning Commission voted to recommend the proposal for new buildings on Cherry Avenue to City Council.
In the coming months, the Council will hold a public hearing and vote, but the dates have not yet been set.
Woodard Properties is proposing a mixed-use development for the 501 Cherry Avenue property, the site of the old Estes IGA supermarket across from Tonsler Park. The company wants to build space for a grocery store that would sell fresh produce — something the Fifeville neighborhood has wanted since Estes closed in 2002 — and space for community nonprofits. Piedmont Housing Alliance would develop at least 60 apartments on the site and rent all of them to families with low incomes.
The proposal included input from Piedmont Housing Alliance as well as the Fifeville Neighborhood Association, though some neighbors do not support the development.
Read more on that proposal here.
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More about developments in Charlottesville
A proposal for a grocery store and an apartment building on Cherry Avenue is back before the Planning Commission
Any community members who have opinions about this development are invited to make comments at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
A developer’s proposal could bring a grocery store back to Fifeville
Woodard Properties proposed a supermarket, community space and new apartment building to the Charlottesville Planning Commission last week.
Dairy Market’s developer will hold community meeting Tuesday night about proposed expansion
Charlottesville requires developers to hold community meetings before they can apply for a permit with the city — so this is part of Stony Point Development Group’s application process.
Dairy Market neighbors mobilize to have their say in the development of more large, mixed-use buildings that most of them can’t afford to live in
The 10th & Page Neighborhood Association is hosting a meeting Thursday that anyone (except press) can attend.
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