Code Refresh HARMS our communities. Read our concerns in the Open Letter to the Mayor.
Code Refresh displaces, causes gentrification, destroys tree canopy and access to sunlight, overburdens fragile infrastructure, and FAILS every basic requirement that an SUP must pass, that:
1. A project won’t be detrimental to the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the community involved,
2. It won’t create congestion in the streets, roads, alleys, and other public ways and places in the area involved.
3. It won’t create hazards from fire, panic, or other dangers.
4. It won’t tend to cause overcrowding of land and undo and an undue concentration of population.
5. 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
6. 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 WOULD NOT PASS AS A SPECIAL USE PERMIT so why would Richmond pass it as zoning?