Albemarle Planning Commission votes to recommend approval for Forest School on Dudley Mountain Road

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit just over five years ago, child-care providers struggled to find ways to stay open amidst social distancing rules. Congregation Beth Israel “pivoted to a forest school model, embracing outdoor learning to keep our doors open for families,” said Jill Abbey-Clark, the director of what CBI calls its Forest School.  To […]

Former Red Carpet Inn demolished to make way for 80-unit supportive housing apartment complex 

The development of housing reserved for people with low incomes can take a long time, given shifting timelines of residents’ availability.  That has twice been the case for SupportWorks Housing (formerly Virginia Supportive Housing), a Richmond-based nonprofit that steered the 60-unit Crossings at Fourth & Preston in Charlottesville through a complex process that involved a […]

Divided Albemarle Planning Commission recommends key approval for floodplain development in Woolen Mills 

One of the areas Albemarle Board of Supervisors has identified for industrial development is along Broadway Street in a land-locked section of the county only accessible via roads through Charlottesville.  The future happens one application at a time and the Board will soon consider whether it wants to allow the owners of a project called […]