Concerned about parking, sunlight blocked, your neighborhood’s houses, trees and soil demolished to cram 3 homes on every lot?
In Richmond, all of the following six SUP criteria must be met to pass:
- It won’t be detrimental to the health, safety, morals and general welfare, the community involved,
- It won’t create congestion in the streets, roads, alleys, and other public ways and places in the area involved.
- It won’t create hazards from fire, panic, or other dangers.
- It won’t tend to cause overcrowding of land and undo and an undue concentration of population.
- It won’t adversely affect or interfere with the public or private schools, parks, playgrounds, water supplies, sewage, disposal, transportation, or other public requirements, conveniences, and improvements, or
- It won’t interfere with adequate light and air.
“And if any one of them is not met, the special use permit is not permitted,” confirms Rodney Poole, chair of the Planning Commission.
Code Refresh must maintain these protections of our existing communities… or be rejected.