As one of her first acts in office, Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order to create a task force to recommend ways to reduce barriers to building houses. “Slow permitting, outdated zoning, labor shortages, and paper-based processes are driving up costs and delaying housing across the Commonwealth,” reads the order to create the Commission […]
As one of her first acts in office, Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order to create a task force to recommend ways to reduce barriers to building houses. “Slow permitting, outdated zoning, labor shortages, and paper-based processes are driving up costs and delaying housing across the Commonwealth,” reads the order to create the Commission […]
Charlottesville has updated and expanded last year’s voucher program to help city residents afford battery-powered e-bikes. Every quarter, the city will give away 12 vouchers in each of three tiers: $500 for any applicant (Tier 1); $1,000 for people earning less than or equal to 80 percent of the area median income (Tier 2); and […]
When Charlottesville City Council adopted a new zoning code in late 2023, it wanted to help developers make it easier to build new places to live. The city’s Department of Neighborhood Development Services is moving forward with changes designed to further that goal. “We’re jumping into 2026 with lessons learned, and to try to move […]
Organizers with the United Campus Workers of Virginia met at the state capitol in Richmond January 16, calling on the General Assembly to support two bills that would restore collective bargaining rights for state employees. “We had some really good conversations, both with allies that we’ve been working with for a long time, and then […]
T he developer of a future industrial building in the Woolen Mills neighborhood has succeeded in a second attempt to convince the Albemarle Board of Supervisors to allow land to be elevated out of the floodplain. Last June, the six-member BOS deadlocked on a request from Elemental Ecotech to fill in the floodplain. A tie […]
Five members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors resigned on January 16 and 17, just before and during the inauguration of Gov. Abigail Spanberger. A university spokesperson confirmed the resignees: former Rector Rachel Sheridan and Vice Rector Porter Wilkinson, as well as Paul Manning, Douglas Wetmore, and Stephen Long. Board members submit resignations […]
The 2026 session of the Virginia General Assembly begins January 14. For the next 60 days or more, a legislature dramatically tilted toward Democrats by last fall’selections will send bills through a procedural meat grinder. C-VILLE asked localrepresentatives about what they’re proposing this year. Sen. Creigh Deeds “I never put in bills till the very […]
Five years after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, former Charlottesville reporter and University of Virginia alum Nora Neus has released 24 Hours at the Capitol: An Oral History of the January 6 Insurrection. But the re-election of the president once indicted for inciting the attack seems to have chilled local institutions’ […]
The company that now operates both municipal downtown parking garages only collects data in order to make it easier for vehicles to get in and out, Charlottesville’s economic development director told City Council on January 5. “The system involves a camera, optical character recognition, and/or license plate recognition to start and end a parking session,” […]
In 2019, former University of Virginia president Jim Ryan announced an affordable housing initiative in which the public institution or its real estate foundation would provide land to help bring down the overall cost of a given project. So far, no such developments have broken ground. The one furthest along in the process, at 1000 […]