> Because they apparently want the body and the monument moved to a venue of their choosing for free.

So it's sort of interesting to me, graves have been moved in the past. One of the largest being when San Francisco passed a "no burials inside City limits" ordinances and then evicted most of their existing cemeteries to south of town in Colma to free up City land for building stuff on. IIRC, the University of San Francisco sits on top of a portion of that land now.

They said they would disinter them, transport them, and rebury them, but you had to cough up $10 (a few hundred in today's dollars). If you didn't pay, the mass grave'd that. The remains didn't get to stick around.

It's also why there are only like 2 or 3 cemeteries now; a tiny one at an old church, and the one at the fort (which is federal land). When I first heard that, I wondered what it would take for RVA to go that route and move Calvary and Hollywood.