Albemarle property owners who want to install solar-energy facilities or battery-storage systems now have an easier pathway to do so. At its July 16 meeting, the Board of Supervisors adopted a new ordinance regulating solar facilities as well as battery-energy storage systems. Under the new regulations, “accessory” energy facilities are allowed in any zoning district […]
Albemarle property owners who want to install solar-energy facilities or battery-storage systems now have an easier pathway to do so. At its July 16 meeting, the Board of Supervisors adopted a new ordinance regulating solar facilities as well as battery-energy storage systems. Under the new regulations, “accessory” energy facilities are allowed in any zoning district […]
The Albemarle Board of Supervisors adopted the Places29 Master Plan in February 2011 as a vision to guide the transition of commercial spaces into areas where people could live. “There is no timeframe for the vision,” reads an introduction to the plan. “In fact, it may be decades before the area builds out in fulfillment […]
The development community has filed dozens of applications under a new zoning code Charlottesville City Council enacted in late 2023 in order to increase the number of residential units that could be built and address what housing activists argue is a shortage. That future was put in doubt by a ruling in Charlottesville Circuit Court […]
Flash flooding has been in the headlines for nearly two weeks, following the catastrophic Guadalupe River flood in Texas earlier this month. The Texas tragedy, while thousands of miles and decades apart, is a stark reminder of the 1969 Hurricane Camille floods—with the overnight arrival of flood waters, high death tolls, and failures of emergency […]
The second presidency of Donald Trump has come with many sudden transformations in policy as efforts are made to both limit the size of the federal government as well as eliminate efforts to move away from the use of fossil fuels. On July 7, Charlottesville City Council heard an annual report on local efforts to […]
The snow fell. The power failed. The plant flooded. The water stopped. For more than 115 hours across six calendar days last January, the City of Richmond lost clean drinking water. For much of that time, its taps ran dry. According to reporting from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, three inches of fallen snow and a resulting […]
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan’s last day in office is July 11, and Executive Vice President J.J. Davis will take over the position on an acting basis while a search committee does its work. On the afternoon of July 4, around 400 people gathered near the Rotunda to protest Ryan’s resignation and the demand […]
Summer’s off to a blazing start, and transit crews have hit the road, working on projects in and around Charlottesville. From initiatives already underway to those a few years from breaking ground, C-VILLE put the pedal to the metal to find out what’s happening on area roadways (and one new pedestrian bridge). Bridging the gap […]
The City of Charlottesville has stopped taking any applications for new development while officials figure out how to move forward after its zoning code was thrown out by Judge Claude Worrell on June 30 for a technical error. On July 1, the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development Services let builders and developers know that all […]
A recent proposal from Amazon Web Services for a 7.2-million-square-foot data center on a 1,370-acre campus is causing uproar in Louisa County. The proposal is the latest in a string of tech megacorps showing interest in Louisa County. In 2023, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors approved a measure creating Technology Overlay Districts—growth areas that […]