The city of Charlottesville having a controlling interest in every parking space in the Water Street Parking Garage technically is coming with a price. The City Council on Monday night moved forward an appropriation of an additional $977,155 to the garage’s operating budget. The allocation will not affect the city’s general fund or parking fund, […]
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$50M affordable housing bond request called crucial to anti-racist efforts
As the anniversary of the Aug. 12 white supremacist rally approached, anti-racist activists added a $50 million bond for affordable housing to their list of demands. The Charlottesville Low-Income Housing Coalition, which includes public housing residents, legal experts and others, released an online petition featuring the demand in the week prior to the anniversary of […]
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City Council honors three unique trees
On May 7, 2018, Charlottesville City Council spent ten minutes discussing three trees. The question was whether to designate the trees as either specimen or heritage trees, which cannot be intentionally destroyed unless authorized by city council. These three trees were nominated as unique or unusual by the Tree Commission as well as private citizens, […]
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Vinegar Hill Park process to start this summer
Construction will begin this summer to replace the Main Street Arena in downtown Charlottesville with the technology-focused Center of Developing Entrepreneurs. Some stakeholders hope to use the spotlight on CODE to put plans for the adjacent Vinegar Hill Park in motion. In late 2016, the City Council set aside $15,000 to create Vinegar Hill […]
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Plans to memorialize local lynching victim moving along
Fluvanna County held a memorial ceremony on Tuesday for William Young, a victim of an 1892 lynching in Palmyra. A similar commemoration is gaining momentum in Charlottesville. On March 19, Charlottesville’s City Council voted, 4-0, to expedite its plans to memorialize John Henry James, the victim of an 1898 lynching in Albemarle County. Councilor Mike […]
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Freedom and Liberation Day illuminates “lost history” of black leadership
When Union soldiers marched into Charlottesville and Albemarle County on March 3, 1865, over half of the population became officially free. So began a period of hope and intense political activity for African Americans in the area. One elderly slave told a Union soldier at the time, “I’s prayed and I’s prayed for you. And […]
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City Council awards $75,000 grant for marketing downtown businesses
The Charlottesville City Council on Monday voted, 3-1, to award a one-time grant of $75,000 to support marketing efforts by the Downtown Business Association of Charlottesville. Mayor Nikuyah Walker voted against the resolution, while Councilor Wes Bellamy was absent. City Councilor Kathy Galvin said the grant would help stores and restaurants on the Downtown […]
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Transit director: Ridership decline may be cyclical
As Charlottesville prepares to develop a new transit plan for the next six years, the City Council has expressed concern about a 15 percent decline in ridership from 2013 to 2017. Councilor Kathy Galvin saw an early version of these statistics in January through her position on the Metropolitan Planning Organization, a regional transportation committee. […]
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City Council to consider new format for meetings
Charlottesville City Council will hold a public hearing Monday on proposed changes to the way meetings are conducted. Councilors spent much of its recent annual retreat discussing alterations to the meeting schedule to include more participation and to allow more interaction between Council and the public. Council last made major changes to its meeting procedures […]
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Funding push made for public housing resident training program
Participants will learn construction, maintenance skills in new partnership If all goes according to plan, 20 units of affordable housing in Charlottesville that are currently uninhabitable due to disrepair will be brought back to life in a collaboration between two local nonprofits, the area’s community college and the city. At the same time, public housing […]
