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  02.14.20 Land use + planning 7 MIN READ

  How annual property assessments work: Sales drive them

  The city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County recently completed their 2020 reassessments. While the assessor’s offices for both localities calculate the value of properties, it’s the real estate sales that take place during the year that play... More

  

  Charlotte Rene Woods
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  02.14.20 Public education 10 MIN READ

  In the Principal’s Office: Western Albemarle’s McLaughlin reflects on his interim term

  While participating in the study abroad program Semester at Sea during his junior year at the University of Pittsburgh, Patrick McLaughlin changed his course. Part of the trip involved visiting Brazil, where McLaughlin saw elementary-age children living and surviving on... More

  

  Billy Jean Louis

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  02.14.20 Government + politics 2 MIN READ

  The Rundown: Report-a-palooza!

  Charlottesville City Council meetings are held on Mondays until they aren’t. Due to the Presidents Day holiday, the meeting is shifting over a day to Tuesday. Here’s a link to the full agenda, and here’s a link... More

  

  Elliott Robinson

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  02.10.20 Soundboard

  Soundboard: Housing Density and Traffic

  Some Albemarle County residents are worried that a new development might worsen the traffic congestion on their commute. But traffic experts say more housing might actually be part of the traffic solution. Plus, a conversation about whiteness and how... More

  

  Emily Hays
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  02.07.20 Government + politics 9 MIN READ

  Questions remain in the wake of the disproportionate minority contact report’s release

  Black people in Charlottesville and Albemarle County are incarcerated at a disproportionate rate and there are disparities at virtually every point in the criminal justice process, a study formally released Monday to the City... More

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  02.07.20 Land use + planning 6 MIN READ

  Development Digest: Berkmar Apartments to receive financing for affordable units

  A new apartment complex moves another step closer to groundbreaking  near Hollymead Town Center, with Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors passing a resolution for Virginia Housing Development Authority to help finance construction for the mixed-income development.  More

  

  Charlotte Rene Woods
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  02.06.20 Public education 4 MIN READ

  Parents say traveling to Burnley-Moran without a vehicle feels unsafe

  Thursday morning, Kyle Savage walked his 7-year-old daughter, Adeline, from the Woolen Mills neighborhood to Burnley-Moran Elementary School on the U.S. 250 Bypass. The nearly 10-minute commute on school days allows the pair to bond and chat about anything pertaining... More

  

  Billy Jean Louis
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  02.06.20 Charlottesville Tomorrow 1 MIN READ

  From the Newsroom: In training

  Charlottesville Tomorrow is taking a road trip. From Monday afternoon to Wednesday evening, Executive Director Giles Morris, News Editor Elliott Robinson and reporters Billy Jean Louis and Charlotte Rene Woods will be in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (our sincerest apologies... More

  

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  02.04.20 Public education 7 MIN READ

  What does learning look like in high-quality preschools?

  Iris Davis, a parent of a 5-year-old in Quaneilia “Shay” Carter-Shifflett’s preschool class, said she enjoys the diversity that the early education program at Woodbrook Elementary School offers. “My child is learning Spanish and English,” Davis said, adding that the... More

  

  Billy Jean Louis
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  02.03.20 Land use + planning 7 MIN READ

  Dunlora residents are worried about traffic. The solution might be more apartments.

  Transportation experts say that the only way to make traffic better in places like Rio is to do the one thing neighbors worry will make it worse.  More

  

  Emily Hays