Though a recent spate of high density projects in the Fifeville neighborhood have run into serious snafus, in large part because of neighborhood dissent, the local chapter of the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity is looking to add 23 units to the neighborhood. Joining with private developers, Habitat will appear September 13 before the City Planning […]
The University of Virginia Foundation, which manages University financial and real estate holdings, would like to double the size of the Fontaine Research Park.
Local governments are struggling to find solutions to the affordable housing problem. So, to get a better sense of just what the problem is and what can be done about it,
The ghosts of Albemarle County’s agricultural and industrial past haunt the Crozet headquarters of Musictoday. The company is housed in the ConAgra building, a hulking structure built in 1953 to house the packaging operations of Morton’s Frozen Foods.
Local State legislators met with County officials last week, preparing for the upcoming legislative session (the last one before the November election). Sen. Creigh Deeds, Sen. Emmett Hanger, Del. Robert Bell, Del. David Toscano, and Del. Steven Landes heard the comments of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and School Board members at afternoon sessions […]
Who does State Climatologist (and global warming doubter) Patrick Michaels belong to: the Governor or UVA? According to Governor Tim Kaine, he’s all yours, Charlottesville.For years, UVA professor Patrick Michaels’ skepticism toward human-related global warming was credited in media reports to the “Virginia State Climatologist”—which, in all fairness, is his official title. But as Michaels […]
To increase the supply of area homes under $200,000, the Albemarle County Planning Commission considered, but deferred action on, changes to the zoning code that would provide extra incentives to by-right developers who include affordable housing. Though the County currently has a 15 percent affordable policy in place for projects needing special permits, current incentives […]
Already six years in the making, Albemarle Place jumped one of only a few remaining hurdles on the path to becoming a 65-acre assortment of 700 residential units and roughly 40 new stores, along with a stadium-seating movie theater, a hotel and a relocated Whole Foods.
Louis Antonio Bryant was sentenced to life in prison during an August 18 hearing in U.S. District Court, following last-minute arguments by his attorney Jonathan Katz trying to convince the judge that the jury verdict was flawed. Judge Norman K. Moon, however, upheld the verdict and imposed the mandatory sentence of life in prison—with no […]
Only a few tinkerings to the discipline system will result from the recommendations of the Charlottesville schools’ Discipline Task Force. Then interim superintendent, Bobby Thompson, appointed that group of 25 parents, students, teachers and principals after last year’s well-publicized violent incidents in City schools—particularly at Buford Middle School, where reportedly 13 staff members were threatened […]