Charlottesville is in the process of updating the City’s Comprehensive Plan. The Plan is the city's vision as a community and guides decision making processes for matters such as land use (development and growth), housing (affordability and access), transportation (all modes of transit and parking). In the spring ...

Charlottesville is in the process of updating the City’s Comprehensive Plan. The Plan is the city's vision as a community and guides decision making processes for matters such as land use (development and growth), housing (affordability and access), transportation (all modes of transit and parking). In the spring ...

Public money, public oversight. Charlottesville is creating and funding a land bank corporation as part of its strategy for affordable housing. Essentially, a land bank is a depository of land held for public purposes.

Prior to the start of the 2018 General Assembly session in January, Charlottesville officials agreed to pay $50,000 for lobbyist services. Nearly all of the legislation the contracted firm was hired to support failed. According to city officials, proposed legislation would have given the city authority to remove its ...

Sometimes, little things can make a big difference. Charlottesville has just rolled out an online and cellphone app that lets people quickly and efficiently request city services and report problems. When bugs are worked out, it should be extremely useful.

Café Kuma is the epitome of free trade and self-determination, a university research project and a strike for social justice against an oligarchy of capitalist corporate coffee jobbers. That’s a lot of work for a little cup of coffee. The brisk brew with a nutty finish and hints of ...

April is one of the first warm and welcoming months of the new year, but it’s also given two not-so-ideal titles: National Child Abuse Prevention month and Sexual Assault Awareness month. “Child sexual abuse is much more prevalent than people think,” says Rachel Thielmann, a prevention education specialist at ...

She’d been here before. During a recent rehearsal of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a feeling of recollection overcame Brenda Brown-Grooms as she recited her lines. She was in character as Bertha Holly, wife of Seth Holly and a boarding house matron who likes to ...

The Charlottesville Human Rights Commission is recommending that the city enter into a partnership with a federal agency to conduct local investigations of workplace discrimination complaints. Several city officials are not sure, however, whether there currently is enough staff to meet the responsibility. In a Monday presentation to the City ...

Albemarle County school officials met with Del. David J. Toscano, D-Charlottesville, on Tuesday to contribute to the Virginia House of Delegates’ ongoing study of school safety issues.  Toscano is a member of the House Select Committee on School Safety. Established in March in response to a mass shooting at Marjory ...

As if they didn’t have enough problems, Crescent Halls residents were victimized by one of their own? In a case of insult added to injury, a former Tenants Association president took money from the organization’s treasury. Crescent Halls is the public housing complex in Charlottesville serving older residents ...

What goes around comes around. Or to put it another way: Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you. The disruption that attempted to override speakers at a Charlottesville City Council meeting earlier this month has been justified by some as perfectly reasonable, given the ...

An ice rink could be coming to Albemarle County. An initial site plan has been submitted for a rink in Brookhill, a multi-use development planned for along U.S. 29 just north of Polo Grounds Road. The Main Street Arena, the area’s only ice skating venue, closed April 2 ...

For more than a decade, Dianna Poe and her colleagues in Charlottesville High School’s WALK program have helped at-risk students overcome obstacles in all aspects of their lives to earn their diplomas.    “In a world where flashy, cutting-edge, shiny and sexy gets all the attention, we are a team ...

The time has come. After seeing the United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area through 30 years of change, Cathy Train will leave the president’s post once the chapter finds a new leader. Her decision comes as the local United Way re-examines its role in meeting community needs through organizational efforts and ...

After years of waiting, the renovation of Charlottesville High School’s track facilities is well underway. The $2.05 million project will allow the school to once again host meets by expanding the track from six lanes to eight. New bleachers and restrooms also are being installed. Ron Green, the ...

As the clock struck 7 p.m. at Santosha Yoga in Crozet, 18 yogis rolled into the fetal position, sent “loving and kind thoughts” to the backside in front of them, then beat a quick path to waiting glasses of chilled wine. The March 30 “Friday Wine Down” yoga class ...

The University of Virginia is in the midst of a hiring and spending surge to implement what it calls the first cloud-based human resources system in the state, but the rollout will come six months later than planned. The project, called UFirst, aims to merge and synchronize more than 70 ...

Housing must-haves: near a great coffee shop, walkable to amenities like the library, grocery store and a park. The home can be on the smaller side—since it’s just you—and you don’t need a huge yard, but something that allows you to enjoy the neighbor-hood would be ...

Ten teams of Charlottesville entrepreneurs competed on Wednesday for funding and opportunities to grow their businesses as part of the seventh annual Crowdfunded Pitch Night at the Tom Tom Founders Festival.  Each contestant had three minutes to present their business idea. The crowd then bought votes for their favorite contestants ...

So far, Judge Rick Moore has accumulated six files pertaining to the lawsuit filed a year ago against Charlottesville and its city councilors for voting to remove the statue of General Robert E. Lee—and that doesn’t include the transcripts, he told lawyers in Charlottesville Circuit Court April 11 ...

On Tuesday night, local firm Bushman Dreyfus Architects awarded a total of $8,000 to four of the 80 entrants in a competition to reimagine a part of downtown Charlottesville. The focus of the competition was the west end of the Downtown Mall — what used to be Vinegar Hill, a ...

The Charlottesville School Board unanimously appointed James Bryant, a retired teacher and school counselor, as an interim member. Bryant, who was selected on his 64th birthday, said he has 25 years of experience working in schools and plans to bring his expertise and passion to the position. “I want to ...