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City looks to refine tech tax credit as …
As a longtime tax credit for Charlottesville tech businesses nears the end of its life, city officials are looking for ways to expand the incentive to reach more local innovators. In 2001, the city declared itself Virginia’s first “technology zone,” and began offering 50 percent relief on business license taxes for companies 5 years old or younger located within the city...
Read moreAlbemarle County Observing National Vote…
The Albemarle County Voter Registration and Elections office is observing National Voter Registration Day today, September 27, 2016. Albemarle County citizens are invited to come by the tent outside the County Office Building at 401 McIntire Road, from 10am – 2pm and register to vote, check their registration status, apply for an absentee ballot, or pick up a sample ballot...
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Read moreCity, Albemarle prepare to cover raises …
After starting 2016 with announcements that the state would restore public education funds cut during the great recession, missed state revenue projections mean Albemarle County and Charlottesville are facing dipping into their own funds to cover state contributions to teacher raises. Thanks to a $266 million state budget deficit to round out the fiscal year ending June 30 and another $1.2...
Read moreAt UVa conference, experts outline need …
As school divisions across the country seek ways to adopt teaching methods that provoke critical thinking rather than fact memorization, educators must find new methods to measure students’ progress. Moving from student achievement assessments that measure knowledge to assessments that measure a students’ ability to learn and think is not a new idea, but it is returning to the fore as...
Read moreBlue Moon apartment complex design recei…
The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review has partially approved the design of a project to construct a six-story apartment complex behind two existing buildings on West Main Street. The BAR approved the massing and scale of the Six Hundred West Main project in February and held a preliminary discussion on the design project in July. “I think that we heard a number...
Read moreUVa advances plans for Brandon Avenue ar…
A University of Virginia committee recently endorsed a master plan for Brandon Avenue that initially calls for a new 300-bed dormitory and a new student health center. “The idea is that we would develop the southern end of the site, and we would like to move forward with development of those two projects right away,” university architect Alice Raucher said at...
Read moreA team of their own: Team 20/20 brings i…
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” The Ralph Waldo Emerson quote is one of many displayed on the walls of the Team 20/20 classroom at Monticello High School. It also captures the spirit of an innovative effort to make learning exciting for students who have struggled in traditional classes. Team 20/20 is a daily, three-hour, team-taught class that combines world geography...
Read moreUVa students win Velocity Tour pitch com…
A pair of University of Virginia-trained biomedical engineers won a $25,000 grant from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office Friday at a pitch competition that kicked of the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s Tomtoberfest fall block party. Payam Pourtaheri and Ameer Shakeel run AgroSpheres LLC and have developed a chemical that degrades pesticides and, they hope, will give farmers better control over their harvests. Despite...
Read morePlans for Woodbrook Elementary School ad…
The Albemarle County School Board approved a schematic design for a proposed 16-classroom addition to Woodbrook Elementary School at a work session Thursday. RRMM Architects made several changes to its preliminary design after a community forum on Sept. 6. School Board chairwoman Kate Acuff said the design “substantially addressed the issues” identified at that meeting. “This is an opportunity for us to...
Read morePlanner describes how “form-based” zonin…
As Albemarle County and Charlottesville consider changes to how decisions are made about land use in urban areas, the former head of Nashville’s planning department briefed local developers and officials Wednesday on his city’s transition to a “form-based” zoning code. “We think our community character planning is proactive in terms of deciding what we want,” said Rick Bernhardt, former director of...
Read moreAlbemarle officials briefed on affordabl…
Representatives from several housing organizations spent Tuesday evening explaining to the Albemarle County Planning Commission how each is doing its part to address one of the region’s most pressing issues. “We would like to essentially put some focus on the affordable housing that’s proposed in the county’s Comprehensive Plan,” said Commissioner Pam Riley. “We’d really like to foster greater regional cooperation...
Read moreCharlottesville City Council endorses open data goal
On Monday, the Charlottesville City Council unanimously agreed to begin developing an open data policy aimed at promoting transparency and community engagement in municipal government. The council approved a resolution that…
City not ready to raise speed limits despite recommendations
Charlottesville has no plans to increase the speed limits on several busy roads, despite recommendations from the city’s new traffic engineer that the posted limits on some streets are too…
Trail network to see expansion with 5th Street Station
The opening of the new 5th Street Station will bring more shopping and dining opportunities for area residents, but some planners and activists are hopeful commitments made during the land’s…
County residents weigh in on future of Rio+29 area
Shopping centers identified as potential sites for redevelopment Albemarle County planning officials and consultants listened to residents’ ideas for the Rio+29 Small Area Plan and presented an update on the project…
Summit stresses importance of food values
As American society speeds toward a mechanized, technology-centric future, local food emissaries Joel Salatin and Alice Waters are fighting an uphill battle against cheap, fatty, widely available junk food. Waters is…
Approval of stream crossing to facilitate Crozet development
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has approved a request to fill in a section of the flood plain along Powell’s Creek to allow an extension of the Crozet Crossing…
Supervisors Divided on Re-Store ‘N Station Expansion
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has deferred a decision on whether a Crozet gas station and convenience store may construct additional buildings and extend its business hours. At the board’s…
Albemarle schools prepare to cover state share of staff raises
County schools officials said Wednesday that Albemarle likely will have to cover nearly $400,000 for teacher raises it originally had budgeted to come from state coffers. The division will uphold a…
Albemarle entry in school design contest yields many ideas, but no grant
Albemarle County Public Schools learned Wednesday that they fell short of winning a $10 million grant from XQ: The Super School Project. But school officials said entering the nationwide competition…
Planning Commission supports farm winery ordinance with additions
The Albemarle County Planning Commission on Tuesday night asked its community development staff to add three provisions to a draft county ordinance governing events at farm wineries and to provide…
STAB Welcomes Twelve Spanish Exchange Students
Charlottesville, Va., September 14, 2016 – Twelve Spanish exchange students in grades equivalent to American sophomores, juniors, and seniors arrived in Charlottesville on September 8 for an eleven-day exchange visit…
Albemarle planners support Foothills Crossing rezoning
The Albemarle County Planning Commission has recommended adoption of a proposal to rezone land within the boundaries of the Crozet Master Plan. The development also would add to the area’s…
Albemarle supervisors reaffirm support for stormwater fee
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has reaffirmed its support for levying a stormwater utility fee to pay for an enhanced 10-year program to protect the county’s water resources. However a…
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