Sean Tubbs

Earlier this year, dozens of organizations sent a letter to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, demanding it increase the real estate tax and put at least $10 million a year toward affordable housing projects.  “We ask that you support strategies to increase deeply affordable housing and address unmet needs in Albemarle County,” reads the […]

This week, Norfolk Southern periodically shut down three at-grade railway crossings in Charlottesville to perform maintenance on the underlying tracks. While the closure was temporary, it raises questions about how to make it easier to get across the linear barrier of the railroad.  In all, there is a distance of 4,500 feet where the railroad […]

The 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act requires Dominion Energy to generate all of its power from renewable sources by 2045—but the company began looking at ways to add solar generation to its mix years earlier.  Efforts to use some of the real estate above the now-closed Ivy Landfill have been underway since 2017, with multiple […]