Technical details matter. As evidence, look at all the effort that has gone into changing the city’s zoning rules to make it easier, cheaper, faster, and more convenient for developers to build. In the future, the dockets of the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals may get more crowded as it becomes a venue for people…
In 1986, the land that is now the Fontaine Research Center had been slated for commercial development. The Albemarle Board of Supervisors approved a rezoning for a shopping center called Fontaine Forest on a 4-2 vote that January over the objections of both Charlottesville and UVA. At the time, UVA officials expressed interest in the property. “To…
The five hour public hearing featured 110 speakers and this is a very small sliver of that public comment.
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…
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…
A list of property transactions in Charlottesville in July 2023 for your review.
A summary of what’s happening at today’s work session of the Charlottesville City Council
There is new leadership at the Charlottesville Planning Commission as two members with many years of experience as appointed officials have been selected to run the meetings. Commissioner Karim Habbab read the report from the nominating committee at the group’s meeting on September 12. “The chair is Commissioner [Hosea] Mitchell and the vice chair Commissioner [Carl] Schwarz,” Habbab…
Charlottesville will likely not collect nearly $120,000 in revenue for the sale of a small sliver of land on a busy thoroughfare. In August, a majority of City Council indicated they would be willing to sell a small rectangular property that Charlottesville owns in the 600 block of West Main Street. A public hearing was …
The city wants input on where publicly-purchased trees might be planted in the public realm. Funding comes from the city’s capital improvement program.