Although the new form-based code seems like a clear win in many ways over current zoning, low-income housing advocates are worried that it will change life dramatically for current residents without providing benefits to outweigh that change.
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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Development Digest: Breezy Hill is back with changes
Related Articles: Development Digest: Luxury apartment building Six Hundred West Main opens Development Digest: Blue Moon Diner reopens on West Main Local organizations working to tear down barriers to housing Southern Development has heard the Rivanna Village community’s concerns about the company’s planned Breezy Hill subdivision and has submitted a new plan for the development. […]
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On the Record: A conversation with Albemarle’s county executive
With ongoing local elections for three Charlottesville City Council seats and three Albemarle County Board of Supervisors seats up for grabs, both the city and the county continue efforts to work collaboratively and think regionally. Over the summer, the city of Charlottesville filled its vacant city manager position with Tarron Richardson, the former city manager […]
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On the Record: A conversation with Charlottesville’s city manager
With ongoing local elections for three Charlottesville City Council seats and three Albemarle County Board of Supervisors seats up for grabs, both the city and the county continue efforts to work collaboratively and think regionally. Over the summer, the city of Charlottesville filled its vacant city manager position with Tarron Richardson, the former city manager […]
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Public housing redevelopment + Youth climate strike
Related Articles: Development Digest: Luxury apartment building Six Hundred West Main opens Click to hear about a new resident-driven redevelopment project in Charlottesville’s public housing neighborhood at South First Street. Also, we take you to the Youth Climate Strike in downtown Charlottesville. Correction on Sept. 30, 2019: Bruce Wardell and BRW Architects has led resident […]
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Development Digest: Luxury apartment building Six Hundred West Main opens
When one pushed the double glass doors into Six Hundred West Main on Friday, the first smell was of plaster.
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Writer Kendi, heritage center Director Douglas discuss Confederate monuments
When writer and historian Ibram X. Kendi visited Charlottesville on Tuesday, Charlottesville Tomorrow sat down with him and Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Executive Director Andrea Douglas to talk about the city’s monuments.
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Development Digest: Blue Moon Diner reopens on West Main
The diner, which reopened on Wednesday, has been a fixture of West Main Street since the 1970s.
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Development Digest: Opportunity Zone convinces developer to go more ambitious on Old Lynchburg Road
A plan to develop the intersection of Fifth Street Extended and Old Lynchburg Road into a mixed-use hub with up to 300 residences is at least partially due to a new federal tax cut.
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Wake-Up Call: Local development + Food insecurity
Sunday Morning Wake-up Call host Rick Moore talks with with Charlottesville Tomorrow journalist Emily Hays about local development and why our restaurant workers face food insecurity.
