Revitalization or gentrification? Whatever you want to call it, the Charlottesville Planning Commission wasn’t approving it at their July 11 meeting, putting the brakes on two projects that would increase density in the Fifeville neighborhood around Cherry Avenue. In an uncharacteristically divided decision, the commission voted 4-2 to deny a rezoning request by Mark Saunders […]
Revitalization or gentrification? Whatever you want to call it, the Charlottesville Planning Commission wasn’t approving it at their July 11 meeting, putting the brakes on two projects that would increase density in the Fifeville neighborhood around Cherry Avenue. In an uncharacteristically divided decision, the commission voted 4-2 to deny a rezoning request by Mark Saunders […]
If you’re looking to buy a home, you can thank your lucky stars that you’re shopping now rather than a year ago. According to the second-quarter market report from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR), the real estate market now officially belongs to buyers, after several years of sellers holding the reins. One […]
Late on Tuesday night, July 11, the Beights Development found itself back before the Albemarle County Planning Commission, more than four years after they first received approval to install a ConSpan bridge crossing at Mosby Mountain Stream to provide a northern entrance to the Mosby Mountain residential development. Although residential construction has been finished for […]
The Office of the Architect at UVA wants to make it a more environmentally friendly and sustainable institution. David Neuman’s office recently developed “Guidelines for Sustainable Buildings and Environmental Design,” a strategy modeled after similar environmental policies at other universities, including Duke and the University of North Carolina.
Usually a time for such games of skill as Spot-the-Greatest-Weight-Gain and Try-to-Remember-Foxfield, UVA Reunions Weekend have adopted a more serious purpose in recent years—namely, they are increasingly becoming fundraising occasions for the University. At more than $42 million, the 2006 giving, culminating with June’s reunion events, represented a 43 percent increase over 2005 figures. And, […]
UVA will open the 2006-07 school year with 80 new faculty, a talented (and tenure-able!) group of the nation’s best and brightest fledgling Wahoos. Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement Gertrude Fraser says the school is competing “extremely well” with private and highly ranked public schools to attract faculty. They’re still working on diversity, though. UVA […]
Joggers puffing past UVA might notice that the crowd on McCormick Road looks a little younger than usual. They’d be right. No college co-eds, these. With summer here, UVA hosts a number of summer camps targeted at aspiring athletes and other high school students. Here’s a quick run-down, by the numbers. Number of kids attending […]
A 21-year-old UVA graduate was struck by a train around 4am Wednesday, July 11, between Chancellor and 15th streets near the Corner. He was intoxicated and was sleeping on the tracks. Police found a substantial quantity of weed on him, as well.
The Virginia Supreme Court has created a commission that will make changes to courts statewide. The “Commission on Virginia Courts In the 21st Century: To Benefit All, To Exclude None,” or the “Futures Commission” is making about 170 recommendations about court structure, technology, administration and more. But a court clerks’ association is objecting to specific […]
Pocket bikes, or pocket rockets, those tiny versions of hot street bikes that have teenagers riding with their knees to their chins, are no longer allowed on Virginia’s public roads. Though they are really gangsta, at less than 24" tall the bikes are, um…kind of dangerous. The law, (Virginia Code 46.2-100), which took effect on […]