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The Beltline park is one of the most innovative plans in city development history, repurposing existing, abandoned, railroad rights of way to create a big circular walk that encloses the downtown area.
In our neighborhood a few year ago, Fuqua Development planned to build a strip mall right up against our segment of the Beltline. This drew over 600 people to the zoning board meeting, by far the largest number that have ever attended one of those.
Fuqua's plans violated the clear text of the Beltline Zoning Overlay law, which requires that Beltline zoning laws, prohibiting big box development, take precedence over all underlying zoning laws.
The zoning board decided that the plain text of the Overlay was not a regulation. It was "aspirational," and they approved Fuckwa's plans. Having succeeded in steering the corrupt city planning department in his desired direction, Fuckwa is now building another big box strip mall directly across the street. Our part of the beltline, instead of being a nice, peaceful park like it is in wealthy neighborhoods, is going to be a hallway between two concrete walls. The only modification the city required was to plant some trees to hide the mall.
Not only did they set aside the Overlay law, but Fuckwa's plans also violated another zoning regulation having to do with street density. You know those aisles you cruise in the parking lot looking for a space? They are now named streets. Zoning Board approved this as well.
Now it is Virginia/Highlands' turn. At the end of the day, city planning does not care what you think because you are not going to give them a cushy lobbying job after you leave city government.
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