The city’s planning a new fire station on UVA property on Fontaine Avenue to help cover the University and neighborhoods in the southwestern part of town, but several city planning commissioners want to make sure UVA is going to help pay for it. While discussing upcoming capital projects at the December 11 planning commission meeting, […]
"The city wants density, but we want you developers to pay for it." That is the essence of a proposed change cooked up by city staff and presented to the Planning Commission December 11, a last minute addition to a rezoning package that has been in discussion for almost a year. The changes were originally […]
The topic itself—whether a vehicular Mall crossing is consistent with the city's comprehensive plan…
Just because you work out a 264-acre rezoning for 900-plus homes and 500,000 square-feet of commercial space by a narrow vote of 4-2 doesn’t put you in the clear. Richard Spurzem, the first developer to bring forward site plans as part of the North Pointe mega-development, had his plans for 188 residential units on 40 […]
Ronald Utt meets a waiter in a Slidell, Louisiana, Applebee’s who moved there from California because it’s cheaper. To him, it’s another sign that California is going to hell in a handbasket, with median houses selling for $750,000 in some parts, unaffordable to 95 percent of the population and a working class moving out to […]
Like most UVA add-ons, the Fontaine Research Park has been built to resemble the Lawn, with a broad, verdant expanse of grass connecting two rows of brick buildings that frame a gorgeous mountain view. But unlike the Lawn—and even unlike other Lawn look-alikes such as the Darden business school—hardly a soul strolls across that beautiful […]
With only 1.2 seconds left, and the UVA men’s basketball team down 70-67 in the squad’s first marquee home matchup against the Syracuse Orangemen on December 5, senior point guard Sean Singletary stood just above the arc. But this time he wasn’t pulling up to hit a game-tying score, nor to pass to a wide […]
A handful of Spanish-speaking workers labor slowly in a dirt and gravel pit, laying foundation for the expansion of the city Juvenile & Domestic Relations Courthouse. The façade of the old brick building, its interior completely gutted, hides behind a green wall that has long taken over the sidewalk along High Street. The name of […]
After several months of deliberation, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation has decided to tear down the former Beta Theta fraternity house—a 94-year-old building also known as the Compton House—in order to make room for a 22,000-square-foot graduate fellowship center. "We analyzed various options, some of which included the house as part of the facility and others […]
All had seemed to be floating along just fine with the downtown Crozet rezoning, when suddenly some staff changes caught several active residents off guard. Previous coverage: Crozet dreams of improved downtownConsultants get input on how to alter zoning to fit mixed-use vision "I’m really upset about the process that I see here," said Sandy […]