Now officials must work with Cultivate Charlottesville to make it happen.
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Posted inOur neighborhoods
Want to see a massive community garden with free produce in Booker T. Washington Park? City Council hears about it Monday
If councilors OK the project, Cultivate Charlottesville will build a 10,000 square foot garden near the baseball diamond that will offer produce free to anyone.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
After dodging questions for more than a year, Midway Manor owners confirms affordability and that renovations are starting
The owners promised renovations would begin more than a year ago. They didn’t, and then the company stopped answering questions.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Charlottesville shares updated draft zoning ordinance. It’s 400 pages long.
Community members can comment on it during a Sept. 14 Planning Commission meeting.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
Planning Commission recommends Cherry Avenue development to City Council
In the coming months, Council will hold a public hearing and vote
Posted inOur neighborhoods
After six years of work, Charlottesville’s proposed new zoning ordinance is about to be reviewed by the Planning Commission
This is the final step before the controversial new ordinance, which massively increases allowable housing density, goes before City Council.
Posted inOur neighborhoods
A proposal for a grocery store and an apartment building on Cherry Avenue is back before the Planning Commission
Any community members who have opinions about this development are invited to make comments at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Posted inShort & Important
Wildfire smoke is back, but this time it’s not as severe and won’t stick around
But poor air quality could be a recurring problem for the rest of the summer, depending on Canadian wildfires and weather patterns.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Lynching victim John Henry James receives ‘one little drop of justice’ 125 years after his death
Judge called posthumous rape indictment a “mockery of the judicial system. Not as an instrument of justice, but as cause to lynch a man simply because he was Black.”
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Albemarle Commonwealth’s attorney will ask a judge to overturn a 125-year-old rape indictment for a Black man lynched outside Charlottesville
John Henry James was seized by an unmasked white mob en route to the courthouse and violently killed. After his death, the court indicted him anyway.
