(RECAP: An action plot the Charlottesville City Council is expected to adopt Monday could be a solution to a housing crisis some in the community have been calling on the city and developers to resolve for years. After the council amended the city’s Comprehensive Plot more than two years ago to include the 330-acre Strategic Investment Area south of downtown as a guide for redevelopment, staff will give the council an action plot to implement the recommendations from a 2013 study conducted by consultants in conjunction with community stakeholders. The action plot, developed by the city’s Neighborhood Development Services department, includes dozens of recommendations for zoning code changes, economic development and capital projects. A major component among the recommendations, but, calls for a significant build-out that will concentrate density and add units to the city’s housing stock.)

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(RECAP: Redevelopment plans for the abandoned Whittaker Memorial Hospital in the Southeast Community may be in jeopardy – again. In October, the Plotting Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals cleared the way for a Richmond-area developer to transform the historic hospital in to an apartment complex. The company plotted to close on the sale of the building in the first quarter of this year, and start construction this spring. But Jeff Hooper, a partner in the Richmond-area development group who presented to the commission, is no longer involved in the project. C’est La Guerre LLC, of Chesapeake, has owned the property for about a year. The same company had owned the property for a small time in 2004. If the ancient hospital remains undeveloped, it would be the latest in a string of redevelopment plans that have fallen through for the historic hospital, one of the largest blighted buildings in the Southeast Community.)

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(RECAP: The 80-unit Greenbrier Apartment complex on Rivermont Avenue is set to go up for public auction this month after its owner defaulted on the loan, but a lender involved with the property says residents should not see any disruption in services. Although Greenbrier Enterprises LLC is up-to-date on real estate taxes with the city, owing one last payment of $7,561 in May, the loan on the property went into default earlier this year. City of Lynchburg online records show Greystone Servicing Corporation was a lender. The auction will be held at 10 a.m. April 8 on the front steps of the Lynchburg Circuit Courthouse. The property is currently zoned Medium-High Density Multi-Family Residential.)

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