{"id":1541607,"date":"2022-07-06T14:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541607"},"modified":"2022-07-06T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:04:57","slug":"thanks-dave-residents-cheer-chappelle-after-he-blocks-development-buys-52-acre-lot-near-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thanks-dave-residents-cheer-chappelle-after-he-blocks-development-buys-52-acre-lot-near-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Thanks Dave!\u2019 Residents Cheer Chappelle After He Blocks Development, Buys 52-Acre Lot Near His Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthanks-dave-residents-cheer-chappelle-after-he-blocks-development-buys-52-acre-lot-near-his-home%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dave-chappelle\">Dave Chappelle<\/a>\u2019s neighbors cheered him after Chappelle bought the entire 52-acre lot near his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to block a proposed 140-home development.<\/p>\n<p>The amount Chappelle, who is estimated to be worth $60 million, paid for the area is undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have confirmation that Dave Chappelle bought the entire lot. We are talking about all the 52 acres,\u201d village manager Josue Salmeron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10973297\/Dave-Chappelle-spotted-Yellow-Springs-Ohio-blocking-housing-development.html\">told<\/a> the Daily Mail.\u00a0\u201cTo me it is clear, the project isn\u2019t going forward. The developers will not be building on that land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSigns proclaiming \u2018Thanks Dave!\u2019 now festoon several properties near the site, which is comprised of a large open field and acres of woodland in an area that could be comfortably described as pastoral bliss,\u201d the Daily Mail added.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Chappelle <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/you-look-like-clowns-dave-chapelle-slams-local-village-council-considering-building-development-near-his-home\/\">told<\/a> the village council where he lives, \u201cYou look like clowns,\u201d as he voiced his opposition to the town accepting a developer\u2019s plan to build single-family homes, duplexes, and townhouses near his property.<\/p>\n<p>At a town meeting of the Yellow Springs Village Council, Chappelle stated, \u201cI just want to say, and Marianne [council member Marianne MacQueen], I can talk to you about this privately, I don\u2019t know why the village council would be afraid of litigation from a $24 million-a year-company while it kicks out a $65 million-a-year-company. I cannot believe you would make me audition for you; \u00a0You look like clowns \u2014 I am not bluffing, I will take it all off the table. \u2026 Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The $65 million company Chappelle referred to was apparently his company Iron Table Holdings LLC, which bought a local fire station in late 2021 and planned to convert it into a restaurant called \u201cFirehouse Eatery\u201d with an attached comedy club called \u201cLive From YS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The $24 million company was apparently the developer\u00a0Oberer Land Developers, which submitted the proposal for a new housing development valued at roughly $39 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe village and Oberer had worked together to produce a plan that would include duplexes and affordable housing along with single-family homes in a 53-acre area along Spillan Road at the south edge of town,\u201d the\u00a0Dayton Daily News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/video-yellow-springs-votes-no-on-housing-plan-after-chappelle-others-speak-up\/WFSD7UXAYVECLOFCZPWU4IV4FE\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe village initially asked for the development to advance affordable housing in the village, including an area that the village would later be able to develop into affordable housing, as well as more duplexes and townhomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News stated that the proposed development would have \u201cincluded 64 single-family homes, 52 duplexes and 24 townhomes with an additional 1.75 acres to be donated to the community for affordable housing to be built later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-index=\"5\">Ultimately, the village council voted 2-2 with one abstention on the proposed development, meaning that the zoning reverts to the previous plan, with 143 single-family homes.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the council held a Zoom meeting to discuss the planned unit development (PUD) proposed by Oberer Land Developers, which had purchased the land in November 2020, prompting the village to annex the land in order to increase its tax base. As the\u00a0Yellow Springs News\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ysnews.com\/news\/2021\/12\/villagers-voice-concerns-over-oberer-development\">reported<\/a>, Planning Commission member Sarah Sinclair-Amend expressed her concern about the increased traffic, saying, \u201cThis is a very narrow road and it was not built to be more than a country road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chappelle chimed in, \u201cI\u2019ve invested millions of dollars in town. If you push this thing through, what I\u2019m investing in is no longer applicable. I would say that Oberer can buy all of this property from me if they want to be your benefactor because I will no longer want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cWe should use more of a visionary eye instead of a reactionary one because the potential of this place is immense and Oberer is not the only solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe houses they were going to build were not affordable to the people who live in the village,\u201d Chappelle\u2019s publicist Carla Sims told the Daily Mail. \u201cIt was going to attract interlopers. Dave was trying to make sure that the people that live in Yellow Springs can stay and afford to live in Yellow Springs. This development was not going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued:<\/p>\n<p><em>Yellow Springs is a small village, seven blocks left and right and you\u2019re out of it. It\u2019s even a little bit of a hippy town. It\u2019s a unique space and once developers got wind of the culture that Dave was creating in the village, it became apparent they thought, hey, we can make money here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dave is not at all against building in Yellow Springs and neither is the community. They want to see development that is aligned with maintaining the culture of the village. Most of the people in the town, you\u2019ll see, they are older. The majority of that town is 50 years and older. And Dave is trying to encourage younger people to move into the town.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He wants better schools and to bring younger families into the town. This was an arts community, now it\u2019s turning into a retirement community.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Chappelle\u2019s neighbors cheered him after Chappelle bought the entire 52-acre lot near his home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to block a proposed 140-home development. The amount Chappelle, who is estimated to be worth $60 million, paid for the area is undisclosed. \u201cI have confirmation that Dave Chappelle bought the entire lot. 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