Signage For 6 New Luxury Brownstones Removed From 303 Alderman Road

Did you know the signage promoting “6 new luxury brownstones coming soon” has been removed from 303 Alderman Road in the Lewis Mountain Neighborhood?

Evergreen Development purchased 303 Alderman Road for $835,000 on June 17, 2024. The firm then hung this promotional banner (see picture) on the front of the brick rancher soon after purchasing the 75-year-old home on 0.31 acres.

Charlottesville housing activists immediately touted 303 Alderman Road as their New Zoning Ordinance success story. The activists championed the potential of transitioning one home into six new attached units. However, Lewis Mountain residents and other Charlottesville home owners immediately beat back the activists in a brouhaha of epic proportions.

The activists are led by Livable CVille, the gang that pushed the City’s New Zoning Ordinance through. Because the NZO was so radical in its conception and execution, a collection of City home owners chose to sue Charlottesville, and they have successfully quicksanded the City in a 17-month lawsuit that is costing tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars and counting. The lawsuit will eventually have its day in court on June 22, 2026.

The NZO has currently backfired and has yielded zero new development while skyrocketing the cost of City real estate. Values have jumped because the parcels are now more opportunistic, meaning the relaxed zoning allows developers, investors and speculators more flexibility and upside with their development projects. 303 Alderman Road is the perfect example of this policy failure.

What will happen with Evergreen’s 6 luxury brownstone project in the Lewis Mountain Neighborhood? Has the project been scrapped?

Charlottesville wants to know…