City Council Agenda for Nov.24, items related to WOTB
The agenda for the November 24th City Council meeting (PDF) includes a few local items:
- Ord. No. 2008-235 (Patron: President Pantele, By Request) – To authorize the special use of *** 107 South Colonial Avenue for the purpose of permitting a new multi-family dwelling consisting of no more than four units ***.
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Res. No. 2008-R181 (Patron: Mr. Tyler) – To approve an expenditure *** of $5,068 from the Council Districts Funds for the First District to pay the Museum District Association for 24 trees to be planted in the Museum District.
- Ord. No. 2008-286 (Patron: Mayor Wilder) – To *** accept *** $557,882 from the Virginia Department of Transportation and to appropriate the increase to the *** Department of Public Works’ Broad Street *** Traffic Signal Modernization project *** for the purpose of modernizing traffic signals on Broad Street between Thompson Street and Roseneath Road.
Item No. 2008-235 has been postponed until January and still has yet to be heard by the Panning Commission, (meeting set for week before council hearing). Original hearing dates for this Special Use Permit were back in early November.
If you look at 107 S. Colonial on google’s street view, you see a terrible looking building. The lot has since been cleared.
Yes, Daniel, that is so. More specifically, for anyone just tuning in, the previous building was torn down at threat of demolition by the city. Said demolition was the ultimate conclusion, in the interest of public safety, of roughly two decades of the property owner’s refusal to bring it into compliance… Basically it was left to rot.
The same individual owns Mom’s Siam with its missing upstairs windows. I enjoy the restaurant but feel for them that the property owner continues to refuse to make repairs to the building.
The missing windows and dormers have been freshly boarded up, which I just by chance noticed by glancing up the other day.