As new buildings bring more people to Charlottesville’s West Main Street, one man wants city officials to do more to make the road a safe place for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers during construction and beyond. “The city doesn’t really seem to understand how to make the city genuinely more pedestrian-friendly and that’s by influencing the […]
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Council approves schematic design for West Main
Development plans for a new look for Charlottesville’s West Main Street inched closer to completion Monday when City Council approved a schematic design for the project. “The project vision is to create a great street, to design a great street and to have it be an equitable street,” said Elliot Rhodeside, of the firm Rhodeside […]
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Charlottesville architecture panel gets peek at West Main schematics
The appointed body that approves building designs in Charlottesville’s historic districts got a progress report Monday on the latest step in the development of a multimillion upgrade of West Main Street. “We’ve thought a lot about design but we don’t have a specific design plan yet,” said Elliot Rhodeside at a special meeting of the […]
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Planning continues for West Main Street streetscape
An Alexandria-based design firm is working on plans for a multimillion-dollar upgrade to Charlottesville’s West Main Street, but a final set of blueprints will not be available for well over a year. “We anticipate the construction document phase to be completed around March or April of 2018,” said Carrie Rainey, the city’s urban design planner. […]
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Council again defers action on West Main streetscape
For the second time this year, the Charlottesville City Council has rejected the results of a study commissioned to develop a new streetscape for West Main between the University of Virginia and downtown. “I would like to see West Main improved, but not the way it is proposed in this concept,” said Mayor Satyendra Huja. […]
