Lombardy Street development before Council on Monday

The RTD has a piece on CACIL’s fight against the proposed Sylvia Place development on Lombardy Street:

Charleen Baylor, president of the Carver Area Civic Improvement League, [...] said the influx of students in VCU and privately-owned rental units has challenged the improvement efforts and could undermine them further unless the Sylvia Place developers can guarantee owner-occupancy. “We want people in our neighborhood who are going to care about the neighborhood,” said Baylor, who moved to Carver six years ago.

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The development is scheduled to be considered tomorrow by the City Council.
The council’s land-use committee voted 2-0 last week to endorse a special-use permit for the project. The 1.3-acre site was mostly recently used for metal fabrication and is across North Lombardy from the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School.