al·ley [al-ee] noun, plural al·leys.
1. a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
2. a narrow back street.–Dictionary.com
Back before fire engines achieved the leadership role in urban design, back when streets were a part of the public commons, there were alleys. In Charlottesville several neighborhoods established before the apotheosis of the Automobile have alleys. The alley above is in Belmont, parallel to and north of Hinton Avenue.
Dear Charlottesville Planning Commission. Please consider the reintroduction of the alley into the urban form.
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Y’know, in other jurisdictions where developers have encountered static when attempting to incorporate alleys into
new urbanist flavored neighborhoods, they have simply denoted them as “walking trails’ on their plats…
This after learning that modern zoning doesn’t allow alleys…