The City Planning Commission found them-selves spokesmen for the trees of Charlottesville at their September 13 meeting. First they expressed anger at a developer, David Turner, who cut down a 150-year-old beech tree he was supposed to preserve at 3 University Ave. “In my mind, this is an illegal act,” said Commissioner Craig Barton. Then […]
The Charlottesville Planning Commission might not have liked everything about the upcoming South Lawn Project as presented at the September 13 meeting, but they had no power to do anything but voice complaints, and some praise, to UVA officials.
The Planning Commission used their only official opportunity to examine the project to level criticism large and small. The “three-party agreement” among City, County and University allows the City to review, but not alter, UVA’s plans.
Why aren’t most of us getting richer? Darden Professor Peter Rodriquez says globalization makes for big profits for the few in finance while slimming the demand for blue-collar workers. Our country’s workers are becoming more valuable in their hours, with productivity rising 16.6 percent from 2000 to 2005. All well and good. But, breaking the […]
UVA has recently been piling up rankings and recognitions in magazines like U.S. News and World Report (24th nationally) and Newsweek (one of 25 “New Ivies”). Now Black Enterprise gets in on the game with its September issue…
In a drastic move to confront speeding, Charlottesville City Council has considered making a uniform 25 mph speed limit throughout the city, an area covering 10.4 miles.
The developers of Hollymead Town Center, otherwise known as the Target shopping center on Route 29, have failed to deliver a promised connector road, and the Albemarle County Planning Commission showed no mercy at their September 5 meeting, unanimously denying a developers’ request for a two-year extension.In order to curry favor with planning officials, development […]
Concerning city development, “a lot of stuff is happening.” That’s what Jim Tolbert, director of neighborhood development services for Charlottesville, told City Council on September 5. And based on the numbers Tolbert presented, “a lot” is right: In the past three years, when new zoning ordinances were adopted, 36 projects have been completed, adding 625 […]
The City planning commission, along with the city public, will get the chance to offer concerns and recommendations about plans for UVA’s much-anticipated South Lawn Project at their September 13 meeting.
With more homes comes more traffic. And those in the Fry’s Spring Neighborhood Association (FSNA) are sick of those extra cars on Old Lynchburg Road.
Albemarle Place is all but a done deal—a deal that in the next several years will bring 700 residential units, a new hotel, roughly 40 shops and a giant movie theater to Route 29, just north of Hydraulic Road. What does all this new development mean for the congestion triangle at Route 250, Route 29, […]