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Ohio village scraps plan with affordable housing after Dave Chappelle threatens to pull his businesses

The plan did not pass after the comedian called the Yellow Springs Village Council "clowns" and said a proposed restaurant and comedy club in his hometown would be "off the table."
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An Ohio village Monday failed to approve a zoning ordinance that included dozens of affordable housing units after opposition from comedian Dave Chappelle, who called the Village Council "clowns" and threatened that his business ventures would be "off the table."
Yellow Springs, Chappelle's hometown, is the planned site of the entertainer's restaurant, Firehouse Eatery, and comedy club, Live from YS, which are under development in an old village firehouse, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported last year.
Chappelle has previously threatened to pull his business investments from the town if the development were approved as proposed. He has not publicly specified exactly what he opposes in the plan.

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The Dayton Daily News reported that at a meeting in December, Chappelle told the council he was "adamantly opposed" and that he has "invested millions of dollars in town," adding, "If you push this thing through, what I’m investing in is no longer applicable."
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Chappelle reiterated his opposition when the zoning change came up for a vote Monday.
At that meeting, according to video posted to the Yellow Springs Community Access YouTube page, Chappelle wondered why the council would pursue the housing plan "while it kicks out a $65 million-a-year company.”
“I cannot believe you would make me audition for you. You look like clowns,” Chappelle said Monday. “I am not bluffing. I will take it all off the table.”
With one recusal, only four council members were available, and the vote deadlocked at 2-2, ensuring that the new housing development cannot proceed, the Dayton Daily News reported.
Representatives for Chappelle did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Documents posted by the Village Council showed that the proposal was pitched as a way to reduce the cost of housing and allow workers for village services to live near their jobs.
Without the higher-density and affordable home units, council President Brian Housh said in a memo, the starting price for homes in the development could jump by $100,000.
Housh, who voted in favor of the zoning change, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
 
Punctual And Organized said:
Seeing as he is extremely self aware and knows how the news cycle gets and he did this very personally. I’m inclined to believe it’s more to this than meets the eye. And even if there isn’t, if you not from there, who da fuck cares.
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First, I hope you're right and there's most to this than we know, because if not, it looks bad for Dave, way worse than the trans stuff IMO.

Second, every time some CAC does something messed up, nobody has a problem with anyone commenting on it even if it has nothing to do with us personally. Don't start acting like we can't do the same for other people just because they are black or a celebrity you actually like. Using your money and name to deny people access to housing during a time when housing is already extremely hard to come by is foul no matter who's doing it or where it's being done.
 
Watched the video.

He just wants the infrastructure to match the city's plan for growth.

Sidewalks, speed bumps etc.

Apparently his community already has issues with foot traffic and car traffic and the expansion without addressing whats alrready wrong with the community is widly inconvenient and dangerous.

I aint falling for the russian bots bullshit.

He didn't vote for or against anything, just expressed his opinion.

He is being attacked for his opinion on shitty infrastructure.
 
ALLBUILDINGSMATTER! said:
none of this is true..the developers are STILL going to build homes on 50+ acres they just won’t build on the 1 acre dedicated to affordable housing..the article even says the price of the new development homes are going to go up $100,000 since they won’t have affordable housing..
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What does that have to do with his opinion on the shitty city planning?
 
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Dave Chappelle responds: I ‘didn’t kill affordable housing’ in Ohio

“Dave Chappelle didn’t kill affordable housing,” his spokesperson said.
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“Neither Dave nor his neighbors are against affordable housing, however, they are against the poorly vetted, cookie-cutter, sprawl-style development deal which has little regard for the community, culture and infrastructure of the Village,” Sims added.

“The whole development deal, cloaked as an affordable housing plan, is anything but affordable. Three out of 143 lots would have been for ‘future’ affordable housing. The rest of the homes were to be priced between $250K and upwards of $600K. In Yellow Springs, and in many other places, that is not considered affordable housing. Instead, it’s an accelerant on the homogenization of Yellow Springs.”
 
grYmes said:
After reading the explanation it makes more sense. The optics look bad tho but then again what are we doing here? Worried about affordable housing for the white trash?

:huh2:
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If they are building up like that, I'm guessing they expect the demographics to change.

That's crazy that 250 isn't considered affordable there. People he would kill for 250.
 
Let's be real, Dave is smart enough to know that if there was something deeper to the stance he was taking, he should have made that clear before going into a recorded meeting and throwing his name around like an asshole.

If he's on the right side of this, I'm glad, but let's not act like he didn't handle this poorly.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
Let's be real, Dave is smart enough to know that if there was something deeper to the stance he was taking, he should have made that clear before going into a recorded meeting and throwing his name around like an asshole.

If he's on the right side of this, I'm glad, but let's not act like he didn't handle this poorly.
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What you mean the right side this?

Only a fraction of the space was for "affordable housing" and judging by how much that affordable housing was, I would hardly call it that.
 
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