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Originally Posted by sdm
at least the past three speakers have at least brought support to their arguements for the development be voted down.
Still can't believe the mps for the area was done in 1985?
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I'm not surprised.
When I worked for HRM - one of the things that surprised me was that back when Fairview was in the county, when the land was annexed into the City, the City decided to downzone a large portion of Fairview (if I recall - Melrose all the way over to Frederick and from DVR to Willet) from R-2 to R-1 to limit development to single detached dwellings.
Problem with that is that the county approved many of the homes as duplexes, which now made them all legally non-conforming (including my mom's house).
Fast forward to late 90's/early 2000's and the fact that records for this area from the county were pretty poorly kept - it became difficult for people living in this area to prove their duplexes were legal. I've never been able to figure out why it was downzoned, but considering most of the houses were duplexes - if they redo the MPS, let's rezone it back to R-2. It makes no sense to have down zoned all that development, when it was done to an R-2 standard.