The City of Charlottesville’s Department of Neighborhood Development Services is processing an application to build six units on a 0.31 acre lot on Alderman Road in the city’s Lewis Mountain Neighborhood.
On August 13, Evergreen Home Builders filed a permit to demolish the single-family house that has been on the property since 1950. The cost to do so is estimated at $25,000.
The city’s development portal for this application contains a letter from the president of SEMCO Services Incorporated to certify a hazardous material identified in the building has been dealt with.
“All removed asbestos containing materials will be properly disposed of in a [United States Environmental Protection Agency] approved landfill,” writes Jim Haltigan.
The land is within the city’s Residential-B zoning district which allows six units per lot if all are market-rate and up to 12 if half are designated as affordable. Each application has to demonstrate how the city’s affordable housing requirements are being satisfied, even if there are no affordable units proposed.
The major development plan for the six units also calls for a waiver seeking to exceed the massing height by five feet. For more on that, read my previous story on the development.
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