At issue in White v. Charlottesville is whether the city’s road network can handle additional density enabled by the Development Code adopted in December 2023 and implemented two months later.
While we wait to see how the legal process works in that case, the city continues to manage its own transportation projects including a project to replace a bridge that carries Dairy Road over the U.S. 250 Bypass.
A design public hearing will be held for that project Tuesday night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Walker Upper Elementary School.
“Come see plans the replacement,” reads a public notice published in the Charlottesville Daily Progress. “This project will replace the aging and load-restricted bridge.”
Funding for the project comes through a maintenance program managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation known as State of Good Repair. The hope is to get the project underway next year.
When that happens, the bridge will be closed for at least one year. The plans are under review and comments can be taken through the end of the month.
The city keeps two calendars on its website notifying the public of upcoming meetings. This meeting is now on the one that’s run through CivicPlus nor the one on the city’s main page.
The city did issue a notice through its press release page on July 9.
The Dairy Road bridge replacement is also not listed on VDOT’s list of projects in the Culpeper District.
In May 2024, City Council learned that VDOT had found the city to be deficient in managing transportation projects for which it had been awarded. For instance, the city won three Smart Scale awards in 2016 for three streetscape projects. None have gone to construction
The city has handed over management of the Fontaine Avenue Streetscape project to VDOT, and VDOT has made that part of a bundle which is listed on the website. A design public hearing was held on May 22, 2025.
For historical content for the Dairy Road bridge, here’s an uncategorized article my colleague Tim Dodson wrote for Charlottesville Tomorrow in August 2016.
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