Charlottesville News
Architecture review panel weighs in on ice park redevelopment project
Aug 19, 2017
Plans for a new building that will replace the Main Street Arena and Escafé on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall are continuing to be developed and refined. On Tuesday evening, the city’s Board of Architectural Review held a preliminary discussion on the massing and siting of a proposed seven-story, mixed-use project called the Charlottesville Technology Center. The 160,000-square-foot building would include office space...
Read moreRequest to fund comprehensive review of Downtown Mall to go before Council
Aug 18, 2017
Plans are in motion to secure funds for a study of Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall to evaluate its historic value and maintenance efforts and to suggest ways to better care for it. The PLACE Design Task Force, an advisory body for the Planning Commission and City Council, decided at a recent meeting to seek the council’s support for this cultural landscape review. “It...
Read moreAlbemarle farmers share concerns at stream buffers meeting
Aug 17, 2017
At a public meeting Wednesday evening, Albemarle County farmers told officials that increasing the size of stream buffers could endanger their livelihoods.White Hall farmer Kathy Rash and several others expressed fears that the county would require farmers to maintain a 100-foot buffer on each side of rivers, perennial streams and intermittent streams. Agriculture, horticulture and forestry uses currently are exempt...
Read moreCity drills holes at Heyer memorial for parking meters
Aug 17, 2017
This story was updated with additional information on August 18 While mourners continued to place flowers Thursday at the Fourth Street site where Heather Heyer was killed when a car plowed into a group of counter-protesters at Saturday’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, an unidentified worker for the city loudly drilled a hole on the sidewalk to make way for...
Read moreSlideshow: Downtown Mall's business community remembers Heather Heyer, spreads message of love
Aug 17, 2017
In the wake of the Unite the Right rally held in Charlottesville on Saturday, August 12, businesses and restaurants along the city's Downtown Mall have posted signs remembering Heather Heyer, who was killed Saturday, and sharing messages of love, inclusivity and unity.
Read moreHydraulic plans raise concerns with area residents
Aug 17, 2017
The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and the Virginia Department of Transportation hosted a neighborhood meeting Wednesday night on the Hydraulic-29 Small Area Plan.Chip Boyles, TJPDC’s executive director, presented updated plans for the intersection and surrounding area before community members weighed in with their thoughts and concerns about the plans. “We’re looking at a bigger area with the core focus at...
Read moreLiteracy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle
Aug 17, 2017
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit's mission. Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle (LVCA) addresses low literacy and under-education among adults in our region through free, individualized reading, writing and English language instruction. Our mission is to help individuals become better workers, consumers, neighbors, citizens...
Read moreBoard hears plans for Belmont Bridge design
Aug 16, 2017
The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review held a preliminary discussion about the Belmont Bridge Tuesday. The conceptual designs presented by consultant Kimley-Horn were the culmination of over 30,000 individual data points collected from community meetings, surveys and the Belmont Bridge project website. Board members shared concerns about the project, focusing on small components such as bench appearance and larger qualms about...
Read moreCATEC board commits to further discussion of relocating to PVCC
Aug 16, 2017
The idea of relocating the Charlottesville Albemarle Technical Education Center to the campus of Piedmont Virginia Community College has been discussed off and on for the past few years. The CATEC Center Board decided Tuesday to initiate further, more in-depth conversations to determine once and for all whether the relocation should and could be carried out. “The conversation of co-locating CATEC at...
Read moreCounty officials shown vision for urban Albemarle
Aug 15, 2017
As Albemarle County prepares for a larger population, officials are seeking ways to encourage the development of an urban community along U.S. 29. The Board of Supervisors held a joint session Tuesday with the Planning Commission to hear an update on the Rio Road small-area plan, a document that seeks to create a vision for the mid-21st century. “Change happens,” said Mike...
Read moreDesign panel urges no parking at Water Street tower
Aug 14, 2017
The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review wants the developer of a proposed eight-story building on Water Street to eliminate parking in the structure in favor of commercial space. “I have a problem with the parking situation and think forcing this building to have parking is kind of crazy,” said BAR member Tim Mohr. Black Bear Properties is seeking a special-use permit...
Read moreDowntown Mall businesses reopen post-rally
Aug 13, 2017
Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall reopened for business Sunday following a day in which most if not all businesses closed their doors due to safety issues associated with the Unite the Right rally and large counter-protest demonstrations. “It’s definitely been a sad vibe today but if you didn’t know any better looking out the window, you would think it was a typical Sunday,”...
Read moreAlbemarle to study budget impacts of teacher compensation changes
The Albemarle County School Board approved the evaluation of budgetary impacts from new teacher compensations strategies suggested in a June study completed by the Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. consulting…
After delay in mailing, Crozet community survey underway
After a delay in the mailing of a survey to gauge the Crozet community’s thoughts on growth and development, both the public and a scientific sample of households are being…
Local company develops ultrasound technology to facilitate anesthesia delivery
To relieve pain during childbirth and various surgeries, many patients are given anesthesia through an epidural or a spinal injection in their lower back. Most anesthesiologists use touch to find where…
New mural painted by community enriches Crozet's Starr Hill Brewery building
Another colorful mural now faces Three Notch’d Road in Crozet, thanks to dozens of community volunteers who recently picked up paintbrushes and brightened the front of Starr Hill Brewery. Starr Hill…
"Color Crozet" Slideshow: community volunteers paint mural on Crozet's Starr Hill Brewery
Last Sunday, Starr Hill held a paint-by-numbers event where community volunteers picked up paintbrushes and livened up the building with a mural of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
New Albemarle teachers encouraged to internalize core values and take risks at division orientation
Albemarle County Public Schools held its annual New Teacher Academy this week at Henley Middle School, welcoming the new educators who soon will be in their own classrooms and offices…
Book Baskets gives children the power to choose
The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and Diary of a Wimpy Kid are just a few of the most popular books distributed by Book Baskets…
Theological Horizons
Meet Your Nonprofit, a weekly profile of nonprofit organizations in our community, is brought to you by the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. Describe your nonprofit's mission. Theological Horizons is a not¬for¬profit centered…
Albemarle changes requirements for farmers markets applications
The Albemarle Board of Supervisors has approved a change to the county’s regulations that is intended to make the process of proposing farmers markets more efficient. On Wednesday, Supervisors unanimously voted…
Albemarle eyeing future transportation projects
The Virginia Department of Transportation will not accept new project proposals until next year, but an Albemarle planner presented the Board of Supervisors with possible submissions Wednesday. Transportation Planner Kevin McDermott…
Charlottesville planning commission reviews Belmont Bridge design concept
The firm hired to create a design for a replacement for the Belmont Bridge asked the Charlottesville Planning Commission Tuesday for feedback on the long-awaited project. “The bridge that we have…
A tour of Charlottesville's many murals
Dozens of murals brighten the walls of restaurants, businesses and street corners around the Charlottesville Area. Many of these works of art were created through Tom Tom Founders Festival's annual…
City Planning Commission expresses concerns about MACAA rezoning
Several members of the Charlottesville Planning Commission expressed concerns Tuesday that a proposed senior living facility at the site of a long-standing nonprofit group might be too large in scale. “We’re…
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