Council will host a work session Wednesday to discuss the ordinance — and might vote at the end of it.
Category: Our neighborhoods
We cover the physical landscapes of Charlottesville and surrounding counties and how things change. We help you understand how history has shaped our city, and how our choices today will affect the future.
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Heading to Tuesday night’s public hearing on the proposed new zoning code? Watch out for these two last-minute additions
Among them are two zoning districts intended to ease displacement of low-income and longtime residents in certain areas of the city.
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Fifeville residents got a say in a private developer’s plans by making an unusual agreement
The resulting project is designed to give low income residents jobs, services and affordable housing. And the developer will earn “much less” profit because of it.
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One of the oldest and most dense neighborhoods of Charlottesville, Fifeville has been changed by the expansion of UVA
Especially in recent years, people with higher incomes have moved in.
Posted inFrom the newsroom
In My Humble Opinion hosts conversations about big changes on the horizon for Fifeville
Charlottesville Tomorrow reporter Erin O’Hare will be on air this Sunday to get the series about a changing neighborhood going.
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Register to attend a public conversation about housing in Charlottesville this Thursday
Nonprofit, government and real estate experts will sit on a panel hosted by In My Humble Opinion and Vinegar Hill Magazine.
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The next draft of Charlottesville’s zoning ordinance includes a new type of residential district
City Council had a work session on the draft Wednesday, but hasn’t set a date to hear comments or vote.
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People who live in tents in Market Street Park explain their ‘Open House’ signs
Before a curfew returns to the park, some people living there want the positive ‘force of community.’
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Charlottesville announces it will bring back a curfew to Market Street Park
The curfew will be reinstated the day a seasonal shelter opens for people seeking help.
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Charlottesville had — and lost — a shelter that social workers say could have helped hundreds of unhoused people off the streets
Had the shelter continued, its homeless service workers are convinced they could move hundreds more people off the streets, including many of those now camped downtown.
