County planners defer affordable housing changes
To increase the supply of area homes under $200,000, the Albemarle County Planning Commission considered, but deferred action on, changes to the zoning code that would provide extra incentives to […]
Albemarle Place wins preliminary approval
Already six years in the making, Albemarle Place jumped one of only a few remaining hurdles on the path to becoming a 65-acre assortment of 700 residential units and roughly 40 new stores, along with a stadium-seating movie theater, a hotel and a relocated Whole Foods.
Public meetings in August
Get your soapboxes ready. Here are your chances to opine on development matters during the coming weeks. Albemarle Planning Commission meets to discuss early drafts of the Pantops Master Plan. […]
Just another development
The future site for North Pointe, a mixed-use development planned for Route 29N, just north of Profitt Road, seems less like a “places we’ll lose” and more like a place […]
Teen cleared in bomb threat case
An Albemarle teen\’s appeal to circuit court proved fruitful on Wednesday, August 16, when a jury acquitted him of threatening to blow up two Albemarle high schools on the seventh anniversary of the Columbine shootings.
Local gang leader sentenced to life
Louis Antonio Bryant was sentenced to life in prison during an August 18 hearing in U.S. District Court, following last-minute arguments by his attorney Jonathan Katz trying to convince the […]
One teen injured, four cited in James river accident
It may come as a surprise, but lazily drifting down a secluded section of the James River on an inner tube with a few buddies and a six-pack is considered […]
Brush up on your UVA
While UVA students were away interning, working, taking summer classes or laying on the couch eating Fla-vor-ice and playing X-box, there were some changes made ’round TJ’s university.
UVA\’s Blue ridge hospital site stagnates
Property values for the 45 or so historic buildings at UVA Foundation’s Blue Ridge Hospital site are dropping fast as land values in the area off Route 20, south of […]
Allen’s controversial greeting sparks debate
As Virginia Senator George Allen’s biggest verbal blunder of his campaign saturates the media, the Republican hopes to put the recent monkey business behind him.