Sizing up the school
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes may be a great way to measure a year for those Rent kids, but what’s the best way to measure a growing university? […]
New plan to protect rural areas
The contentious issue of rural preservation is at the root of a new proposal for tradable development rights (TDR) from Albemarle County Supervisor David Slutzky. It’s garnering reserved approval from interested parties across the spectrum.
The question of how to prevent bucolic countryside from being converted to cul-de-sacs and strip malls (a.k.a. How Not To Become Northern Virginia) has been critical lately. Three years ago, the Board of Supervisors decided that Albemarle’s answer would be to designate 5 percent of the county as growth areas.
truce reached on Franklin Street
The rumblings from neighbors over truck traffic on Franklin Street had quieted since the previous City Council meeting, when Woolen Mills resident Bill Emory played a tape of truck noise, […]
new planning commissioners offer views
The Charlottesville Planning Commission will welcome three new members at their October 10 meeting, and all three hail from different parts of the city. The respective residence of the new […]
red dirt alert!
The enormous hole in the ground at the corner of Jefferson Park Avenue and Valley Road is a sign of progress, according to Will Bynum, project manager at Kjellstrom & […]
UVA woman killed on Parkway
On Tuesday, October 3, police identified a body found over the weekend near an abandoned car on the Blue Ridge Parkway as that of UVA graduate student Elizabeth Michelle “Lizzy” Hafter. Her parents had last heard from her the previous Friday, when she told her mother that she was going to the mountains to study and enjoy the weather.
Man assaulted at Barracks Road
A 19-year-old driver was assaulted October 3 at Barracks Road Shopping Center after letting a strange man into his car at the 7-Eleven at U.S. Route 29 and Hydraulic Road. […]
Federal Court of Appeals visits UVA Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals (of which there are only 12 in the country) visited the UVA Law School on October 3 and heard four cases handed up from the […]
Indie doc attacks state prison
The “ultimate bed and breakfast,” as Virginia’s former director of corrections Ron Angelo called the prison system, isn’t a pleasant stay. Such was the theme of an independently produced documentary […]
Crackdown on parking scofflaws
Charlottesville is now officially a less cool place to live for those who laugh in the face of parking regulations. A loophole that essentially doled out no punishment for unpaid […]