The recent rejection of a Fifeville development by the City Planning Commission highlights ambiguities about the urban planning concept of infill, which focuses development on filling vacant city lots rather than building outwards on undeveloped land. Mark Saunders, who is developing 1000 and 1002 Grove St. with V.G. Sullivan, thinks the rejection concerns more than […]
The recent rejection of a Fifeville development by the City Planning Commission highlights ambiguities about the urban planning concept of infill, which focuses development on filling vacant city lots rather than building outwards on undeveloped land. Mark Saunders, who is developing 1000 and 1002 Grove St. with V.G. Sullivan, thinks the rejection concerns more than […]
The UVA Medical Center is planning to create a new long-term acute care hospital somewhere in Albemarle County. The venture will be a 50/50 partnership with Alabama-based HealthSouth Corporation, one of the largest health care service providers in the United States. The new 40-bed facility will serve the clinical needs of acute patients who require […]
O.K., Professor Nick Rubin might not be a slovenly, hard-rocking and somewhat deranged substitute teacher at a private school—and his students probably won’t end up competing in a local battle of the bands—but we still can’t resist a course titled “History of Rock and Roll.” In Rubin’s class, connoisseurs of this thing we call “rock” […]
A former Lutheran pastor charged with 20 counts of possession of child pornography, as well as two counts of videotaping non-consenting adults, has been released on $100,000 conditional bond following a July 19 hearing. Gregory Briehlâwho, until this spring, was an associate pastor at the Peace Lutheran Church as well as counselor at First Stone Counseling Center-urned himself into Albemarle authorities July 18 after they issued a warrant for his arrest.
Ah, summer in Charlottesville. A perfect time for outdoor concerts, evening strolls on the Mall and the sort of public profanity that causes bystanders to ask, “You kiss your mother with that mouth?” Public swearing/intoxication arrests totaled 22 in the city two weekends ago. But Charlottesville Police Captain Bryant Bibb says those arrests were mainly […]
The family of Walker Sisk, who was stabbed to death in November 2003, has served his killer, Andrew Alston, with a $3 million lawsuit. Alston was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for stabbing Sisk, a 22-year-old volunteer firefighter, 18 times in a drunken altercation at the corner of 14th and Wertland streets. He was released from […]
David Robert Brown, 35, was charged with grand larceny for stealing more than $1,000 from parking meters in the Water Street lot. Police caught him on camera around 1:45am Monday, July 17, tampering with meters. Meters were checked and cleared out by the City on June 13. When they were checked again June 30, about […]
A man who says a Charlottesville Police DNA dragnet violated his constitutional rights may be joined by other victims in a class-action suit. Larry Monroe of Charlottesville was one of 190 black men approached for a DNA sample as police attempted to catch a serial rapist. During the investigation, from late 2003 to April 2004, […]
Richard Berglund pleaded guilty Friday, July 21, to making illegal donations to Rep. Virgil Goode, whose district includes Charlottesville. Berglund’s admissions are the latest news in a congressional bribery scandal involving MZM Inc., a company that provides security and other military related services.
In recent years, Charlottesville’s Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA)—charged with the oversight and maintenance of Section 8 and public housing—has been notoriously inept. Consequently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has classified the City for the last three years with troubled housing status. To combat the embarrassing boondoggle, the City hired a […]