Neighborhood Commercial
VHCA is targeting early 2008 to complete a feasibility study of Neighborhood Commercial and, if found beneficial to the community, propose new legislation to fully implement NC for several commercial strips along North Highland Ave. This effort is being run a steering committee of residents, commercial property owners, Board members, and a consulting team that specializes in NC. Project details can be found here.
Latest News
05.02.08: Proposed ordinances can be found here.
03.20.08: A special meeting was held Thursday, March 20th at 7:00 PM at Inman Middle School cafeteria, to review the draft ordinances and to get community feedback. Attendance was light and feedback generally positive. The presentation can be found here.
02.14.08: A living room meeting was held with Arlington and Rosedale residents to gauge interest of residents for an NC-Office zoning classification. Aaron provided a comparison between NC-Office and Residential General (RG) Outcome can be found here.
01.15.08: A meeting was held specifically for commercial property owners. Rough drafts of ordinances were reviewed and feedback collected. Meeting was very constructive. Specific concerns raised around setbacks, parking and expanding to include support for office space.
11.28.07: Amsterdam follow-up meeting held to refine ordinance language to limit impact of potential parking garage. Details here.
10.24.07: A living room meeting was help with Amsterdam residents directly impacted by the proposed rezoning of the entire Sala parking lot to NC.
10.03.07: A meeting was held with impacted commercial property owners to present outcome of charettes. Several new participants joined. Concerns expressed about historically unconstructive relationship with VHCA. Ideas presented on how to make NC more attractive to property owners.
09.08.07: Charette#2 complete. Again, some good ideas provided that will be consolidated into ordinance language.
08.04.07: Charette#1 complete. Lots of good ideas that Steering Committee will consolidate over the next month in preparation for final charette.
07.26.07: Intro to NC meeting held at Inman. Approximately 40 attendees. Terrific presentation by Aaron and lots of good questions from crowd.
07.23.07: VHCA thanks all hosts of the Living Room meetings. Judging by the increased turnout at each successive meeting these were a big success!
05.31.07: The NC Steering Committee establishes timeline to introduce NC to community. Living room meetings will be held throughout the neighborhood during the month of July, culminating with a special Introduction to Neighborhood Commercial meeting at Inman Middle School on July 26th.
05.23.07: NC Steering Committee begins month-long crash course on the fine details of Neighborhood Commercial Zoning
05.03.07: The NC Steering Committee holds special meetings for commercial property owners. Meetings were to introduce them to NC and collect feedback.
03.19.07: Steering Committee meets with neighborhood representatives who led successful NC efforts in East Atlanta and Little Five Points.
03.19.07: Steering Committee meets with neighborhood representatives who led successful NC efforts in East Atlanta and Little Five Points.
01.22.07: Working framework and Statement of Principles are established
01.08.07: VHCA Hires Lord, Aeck & Sargent and Market &Main as advisors and facilitators for the NC initiative in Virginia-Highland
Please contact John Peak with questions.