"NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS"
Umm.. what the...
Well looks like the Vision 2020 plan is back in effect, in some form. Damn this thing is huge. Rezone the entire city!
Oh wait, that means rezone downtown too doesn't it.
lets see.. hmm big ass map.. wow - what colors.
Division 2: Special Purpose Districts: D - Downtown District. no density restrictions.
Allright - thats cool enough, Gives alot of options.. what else we have here..
(lord, theres enough fodder here to keep me going till September.)
Here's what I was looking for: The H-1 Historic Downtown Overlay District. "...encourages the architectural compatibility of new construction within the district,..."
Gosh, I cant think of anything that might not be architecturally compatable. Nope, not a thing. Certainly nothing made of stainless steel. (go ahead, try and get a non-existing building grandfathered into the old rules - try it.)
So thats article 3, next interesting section from a purely style-based view is Article 6, development standards.
I urge you to read this, you might not understand the map (lord knows I need to study this more) but the general ideas are spelled out plainly.
THIS is what Roanoke is about. This gives hope to those of us worried that Roanoke would be over-run by sprawl and badly-maintained buildings. But this is a comprehensive plan to make the city a City. When the angle of lighting and the ratio of ground cover to bare ground is up for consideration, they are taking the details that make a city great into account.
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