There are three candidates for three seats on Charlottesville City Council with the three Democrats having been selected in the June 20 primary. No independent candidates qualified for the ballot and the Republican Party has not run a candidate since 2015. No write-in campaigns have emerged. According to campaign finance reports compiled by the Virginia…
Campaign finance reports are in for Supervisor races as well There is less than a week until early voting begins for the November 7 election which is 52 days away. On the ballot are all 140 seats in the General Assembly as well as local races. The first campaign forums and candidate town halls have…
If City Council approves a new Development Code later this year, the land use process will be very different. There will no longer be public hearings for special use permits for additional height and density, though they’ll remain for requests to have some commercial uses in residential neighborhoods. There are still special use permit requests…
Both Albemarle County and Charlottesville have individual climate action plans that have been approved in recent years. Today the two localities have launched Resilient Together, a new initiative to indicate how the two localities work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate mitigation. “Locally, we are experiencing longer, hotter heat waves, more destructive…
It is now 22 months to the day that President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which is intended to fund projects across the entire nation. Since then, localities in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District have been awarded $19.2 million for projects. That’s according to an interactive database and map unveiled by the National League…
The Charlottesville Police Department has set up an email address to take questions from community members who want to know more about a new tool that the department is considering using. “With the association between our stolen vehicles, shots fired calls, and homicides, we have identified the FLOCK License Plate Recognition (LPR) system as a…
The appointed body that advises Charlottesville City Council on planning matters has adopted a resolution stating more clearly why they do not feel that two public roads proposed as part of a riverfront development are consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. If this sounds familiar, the Planning Commission held a public hearing last month to determine whether the…
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A list of property transactions in Charlottesville in July 2023 for your review.
A quick look at what’s coming up at the September 18, 2023 meeting of the Louisa County Board of Supervisors.