City Council considers town-wide 25 mPH speed limit
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.
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City Council considers town-wide 25 mPH speed limit
Consultant says educate before you regulate
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.
City School scores improve, Clark sanctions lifted
As the new Charlottesville schools superintendent, Rosa Atkins may face a school system that’s slightly less troublesome than that her predecessors confronted. Recently released Standards of Learning (SOL) test scores show a picture of a school system improving in some areas, while stagnating in others. Sanctions have been lifted from Clark Elementary, part of an […]
Geraldine Ferraro to speak at UVa
For every second of media coverage devoted to high-profile women’s issues like emergency contraception (and Senator Hillary Clinton’s political ambitions), Geraldine Ferraro is partly responsible. And Charlottesville citizens may have the opportunity to thank, commend, or disagree with her in person next week, when the woman with even more historical hype than Hillary comes to […]
Hollymead developers fail to deliver road on time
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 […]
City growth has exploded in past three years
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 […]
City Planning Commission reviews South Lawn Project
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.
Red Dirt Alert
This expanse of 15 acres between Cherry and Cleveland avenues, called the Cherry Hill Planned Unit Development, will soon become 117 housing units. The project consists of 94 townhouses that will be ringed by 23 single-family homes, according to plans filed with City Neighborhood Development Services. Some dwellings should be on the market as early […]
A new direction
The Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, our area’s signature symphony, opens its 2006-2007 season with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in October, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in November and a Holiday concert in December. And they’ve got something else special this year: a new conductor, who just happens to have one more X chromosome than most […]
Lynda Harrill is Opinionated
All this talk of “phasing” and “clustering” and “mountain overlay” has many residents of the rural areas in a real lather. Those folks need to look at the other side of the coin.
A laughing matter
Dear Ace: Know any jokes?âHumor S. Thompson
Dear Humor: Hey, was a Moses a Jew? Ace Atkins, master punster, was voted by his high school classmates Most Likely to Get a Laugh!