Sean Tubbs, Author at C-VILLE Weekly

The city’s first large student apartment complex on West Main turns 10

With the University of Virginia back in session next week, students are returning to Charlottesville—including the several hundred who live at 852 W. Main St. The first residents of the building known as The Flats at West Village moved in 10 years ago, beginning a trend of students moving into an area where they had […]

Sean Tubbs | August 21, 2024

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A dangerous Charlottesville intersection could become more crowded

If implemented as planners hope, Charlottesville’s new development rules will provide more places for people to live by making it easier for builders to navigate the process. Less certain is what will happen when more of those homes are constructed on a road network with known areas of concern. Perhaps one of the most dangerous […]

Sean Tubbs | August 14, 2024

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Chamber of Commerce to relocate after downtown building is sold

For more than four decades, the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has operated at the corner of East Market Street and Fifth Street NW just down the hill from the former Monticello Hotel. Now that property is on the market as the chamber continues a search for a new place to advance its mission in […]

Sean Tubbs | August 7, 2024

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Businesses near the much-debated Belmont Bridge hopeful for a comeback

Both Project Gait-Way and the Belmont Vortex created ways for planners to dream up ideas for the urban landscape around Avon Street. Since 2011, there have been many transformations while the new bridge and street layout awaited construction. In December 2014, what had previously been used as a hair salon and then a small […]

Sean Tubbs | July 31, 2024

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A brief history of the two-decade process to replace the Belmont Bridge

On a warm morning in late June, City Manager Sam Sanders presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Belmont Bridge, a $38 million project that for a time served as another chapter in Charlottesville’s resistance to infrastructure for motorized vehicles. “There are many who didn’t believe that this would actually happen,” Sanders said to […]

Sean Tubbs | July 31, 2024

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Two apartment complexes planned for either side of Albemarle/ Charlottesville border

What happens when you build a pair of apartment buildings with hundreds of residents each on the busiest highway in the Charlottesville area? The community will find out in a couple of years if two proposed developments make their way through the process. On July 16, the Albemarle Planning Commission held a public hearing on […]

Sean Tubbs | July 24, 2024

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Undeveloped land on major highway into Charlottesville up for grabs

Charlottesville’s new zoning code, which went into effect in February, opens up potential for a much more urban landscape with higher buildings and increased residential density. The updated rules provide a new lens to speculate what might happen with some of the last undeveloped parcels across the city. Earlier this month, signs were placed at […]

Sean Tubbs | July 17, 2024

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Albemarle staff refining process for county master plan update

Albemarle County has spent the last two and a half years updating its Comprehensive Plan, a document required by state law for each locality to guide “adjusted and harmonious growth of the territory.” For four and a half decades, Albemarle has used that plan to designate the vast majority of land in the county to […]

Sean Tubbs | July 10, 2024

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Density opponents argue in court that city didn’t follow state rules

Will opponents of Charlottesville’s new zoning code get a court trial to argue against recent rules? That answer will not be known for at least several months following a 90-minute hearing last week on a motion from the city for Circuit Court Judge Worrell to dismiss the case. Charlottesville City Council adopted a Development Code […]

Sean Tubbs | July 3, 2024

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Southern Development seeks permission to build affordable units for 240 Stribling—at a different location

When Southern Development Homes won a rezoning in Charlottesville to allow for the construction of 170 dwelling units on Stribling Avenue, the idea was that all of the required affordable units would be built on the 11-acre site in Fry’s Spring. As part of the rezoning in late April 2022, Southern Development agreed to designate […]

Sean Tubbs | June 26, 2024