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…
Home prices in the Charlottesville area are continuing to increase while overall sales activity remains sluggish. That’s the main takeaway of the latest quarterly report from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. “The median sales price in the CAAR housing market during the second quarter was $445,900, up seven percent from last year, a gain…
The Fluvanna County Planning Commission will meet at 6 p.m. for a work session followed by a regular meeting at 7 p.m. (agenda packet) The work session will be on regulations for utility-scale solar projects. These conversations are being held across the Fifth District. On Monday, Mecklenburg County’s Board of Supervisors will consider a cap…
The real estate market began 2023 with lower volumes than recent years according to the latest report from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. “There were 688 homes sold in total across the area in the first quarter of 2023, down 23 percent from last year, the lowest first quarter sales total since 2016,” reads…
The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is made up of five counties and the City of Charlottesville. Like similar bodies across Virginia, the TJPDC’s mission is to help those localities with both planning and implementation. For instance, the TJPDC is currently leading a 13-county effort to use federal funding to leverage private dollars to expand…
It has been a year and a half or so since the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission adopted a document called Planning for Affordability that sought to help all six regions in the community update the housing chapter of their respective Comprehensive Plan. The work is part of something called the Central Virginia Regional Housing Partnership, a…
The population of the six localities that make up the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission grew by 2.5 percent between the 2020 U.S. Census and the beginning of the fiscal year. That’s according to the latest population estimates from the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia. These are used by the Commonwealth of…
For over three and a half decades, Fred Payne has served as the county attorney in Fluvanna on a contract basis. Payne will soon retire and Fluvanna is proceeding in a new direction. “A decision has been made to move forward with creating a County Attorney Department to have in-house staff assistance as the County…
Housing sales have been down for five consecutive quarters in the region covered by the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. The group released their quarterly report today. “There were 1,206 home sales in the CAAR region during the third quarter of 2022,” reads page 2 of the report. “This is 192 fewer sales than this…
The number of sales in the Charlottesville housing market continues to drop as the median sales price continues to climb. That’s according to the latest report from the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors. (view the report) “There were 1,380 homes sold in the CAAR area in the second quarter,” reads one of the bullet points in…