The No. 1 objective in Albemarle’s official housing policy is to build more homes to ensure supply for the tens of thousands people that area demographers expect to move here by 2040. Since 1980, the county’s comprehensive plan has had a growth management policy in place that restricts development in only a portion of the […]
The No. 1 objective in Albemarle’s official housing policy is to build more homes to ensure supply for the tens of thousands people that area demographers expect to move here by 2040. Since 1980, the county’s comprehensive plan has had a growth management policy in place that restricts development in only a portion of the […]
The local real estate market remained relatively flat in April, May, and June, while prices continued to increase. That is reflected in the latest quarterly report from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. There were 1,087 sales in the six localities covered by CAAR in the second quarter of 2025 compared to 1,100 sales the […]
The number of hotel rooms under construction in the United States is at a five-year low, according to data collected by the company CoStar. The publication Construction Dive reports that the number of rooms being built decreased 11.9 percent year over year in June. While the exact data for Albemarle and Charlottesville is not available, […]
The development community has filed dozens of applications under a new zoning code Charlottesville City Council enacted in late 2023 in order to increase the number of residential units that could be built and address what housing activists argue is a shortage. That future was put in doubt by a ruling in Charlottesville Circuit Court […]
The City of Charlottesville has stopped taking any applications for new development while officials figure out how to move forward after its zoning code was thrown out by Judge Claude Worrell on June 30 for a technical error. On July 1, the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development Services let builders and developers know that all […]
After 18 months of legal procedures over the city’s new zoning code, Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Claude Worrell has granted a default judgment throwing out the new rules. A group of Charlottesville property owners filed suit against the city in January 2024 arguing that it had not done enough to study the potential impacts additional […]
Charlottesville’s new development code is intended to encourage the construction of new places to live across the city. However, there are still a few remaining large-scale residential projects being reviewed under the old rules. For instance, plans are moving forward to build 267 units on U.S. 29 at the site of the Hibachi Grill under […]
Three apartment buildings marketed to University of Virginia students sprung up on West Main Street in the 2010s, taking advantage of a zoning code from 2003 that encouraged residential density along major corridors. On June 17, Charlottesville’s Board of Architectural Review had a first look at a proposal that would utilize a new zoning code […]
More than two years have passed since the Albemarle Board of Supervisors gave permission for staff to move forward with the biggest economic development project in county history. Supervisors agreed in May 2023 to proceed with the $58 million purchase of more than 462 acres of land around the Rivanna Station military base for a […]
While not constrained by either Albemarle County or the City of Charlottesville, the University of Virginia is a public body governed by an appointed Board of Visitors. The group meets at the Boar’s Head Resort this week, and one item on the agenda is renewed scrutiny of future construction projects. “The first two quarters of […]