As far as parking, the six curb-side spaces on the 200 block of Ninth Street SW aren’t much. But soon all six will be off limits to nonresidents, including employees of the nearby UVA Hospital who’ve been snagging those precious parking spaces. And while it may be only six spaces, Ninth Street’s move to permit […]
With the additional density afforded by the 2003 city rezoning, several nine-story buildings
City Council will hear recommendations about the Route 250 Bypass interchange at McIntire Road during its July 2 meeting. The interchange would facilitate the traffic flow between 250 and the elusive Meadowcreek Parkway (MCP). Peter Kleeman warns that if the Meadowcreek Parkway and the 250 interchange are approved and built as separate projects, it might […]
The Meadowcreek Parkway moved one step closer to reality at the June 12 city Planning Commission meeting but not without resistance. The Commission approved the McIntire Road-Route 250 Bypass Interchange as consistent with the city’s Comprehensive Plan. But things quickly got hazy. A steering committee for the Meadowcreek Parkway interchange liked this design. The Planning […]
Construction continues on the Watson Manor project, but the dust has settled from a neighborhood/developer dispute about the life (and death) of a 150-year-old beech tree. The project was halted last August after the manager for UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies and Culture, David Turner, violated the site plan by cutting down the 48" caliper […]
The City Council is staring down a June 30 deadline to decide whether Charlottesville wants a $14 million YMCA in the city.
It’s just after 5pm, and cars are beginning to roll into Darden Towe Park.Already groups of men—some young, others smack-dab in middle age—gather around pick-up trucks, passing out cans of Bud Light, the butt ends of softball bats sticking out of bags. They’ve got under four hours of sun left and a game to play,but […]