
Development Code public hearing attracts dozens of speakers
The five hour public hearing featured 110 speakers and this is a very small sliver of that public comment.
The five hour public hearing featured 110 speakers and this is a very small sliver of that public comment.
The next event is Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Center at Belvedere at 540 Belvedere Boulevard.
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…
One of the three main recommendations of the Affordable Housing Plan adopted by Charlottesville City Council in March 2021 was to appropriate $10 million each year towards that purpose. There were also recommendations that Charlottesville “establish clear, transparent, and competitive processes to award grants and loans for affordable housing.” The city has separated all of the funding…
The five member Board of Supervisors in Fluvanna County will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Carysbrook Performing Arts Center at 8880 James Madison Highway in Fork Union. (meeting packet) There are three action items. There are five presentations. There are no items under unfinished or new business. Before you go: The time to write…
The Louisa Board of Supervisors will have a special meeting at 4 p.m. followed by a regular one at 5 p.m. Both take place in the Public Meeting Room at the Louisa County Office Building at 1 Woolfolk Avenue in Louisa. The first meeting is “to go over the meeting and agenda management process and board…
The CHAP program is open to households who lived in their house as of January 1 and have a 2022 household income of less than $60,000. The property itself must be assessed at $460,000 or less.
The first hearing on the draft Development Ordinance for the City of Charlottesville is set for Thursday, September 14. Last week, the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development services published a consolidated version of three modules of the future zoning code which will inform how future buildings can be constructed. The zoning follows the general theme…
Every three months staff from Albemarle’s Community Development Department checks in with elected officials on the status of transportation projects. This mostly recently happened at the Board of Supervisors’ meeting on August 2. Transportation planner Jessica Hersh-Ballering noted that the Commonwealth Transportation Board’s final vote on Smart Scale projects this past June included a project…
There is a lot of growth happening across the entire region and there is endless planning work intended to inform the next set of projects to build infrastructure to handle all of the traffic. At any given point, the Virginia Department of Transportation has multiple studies underway to come up with the next of candidate…