Rose Hill neighborhood balks at rezoning, demolitions

(RECAP: A proposed rezoning on a small cul-de-sac near Rose Hill Drive is the latest in a series of changes that has some in the neighborhood concerned they will be squeezed out by Charlottesville’s housing boom. “Most of the people in this neighborhood who are homeowners are my age or older,” said Evelyn Yancey Jones, 71, whose two-story home at 629 Rose Hill Drive has been in her family for nearly 100 years. “The seniors are struggling, so they don’t have any means to put the brakes on,” she said. Jones lived in Charlottesville during the time when houses on Vinegar Hill were torn down in the name of urban renewal. She wants city officials to look at more than just economics when making decisions about the future.)