At yesterday’s open house, members of the 250 Bypass Interchange Steering Committee fielded questions from the public about the proposals being developed for a grade-separated interchange at the intersection of the Route 250 Bypass, McIntire Road and the future Meadowcreek Parkway. The display panels from the meeting are available on the project website here . […]
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Two City Council Candidate Forums Scheduled
Two candidate forums have been scheduled for the upcoming May 2nd City Council elections. Visit Charlottesville Tomorrow’s Election Watch page for candidate bios, podcasts and more. If you need to register to vote, you have until Monday, April 3, 2006 at 5:00 PM. See: Charlottesville Voter Registration Information Brian Wheeler
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City Council Candidates on WINA
On March 22, 2006, the three candidates for Charlottesville City Council , Dave Norris, Rob Schilling and Julian Taliaferro all appeared on WINA AM 1070’s Charlottesville Right Now with host Jay James. Charlottesville Tomorrow has the podcast of the interviews and our complete election coverage can be found online here: http://action.cvilletomorrow.org/cvilleaction/elections.html Listen to podcast: Download […]
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Biscuit Run Work Session #1
On March 21, 2006, the Albemarle County Planning Commission held its first formal work session on the proposed Biscuit Run development. The Daily Progress coverage can be found here . The next work session will be on April 18, 2006 to discuss environmental issues and site planning that respects the terrain. Charlottesville Tomorrow has produced […]
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Cville Podcasting Nominated for VPTC Tech Award
The Virginia Piedmont Technology Council (VPTC) has released the list of nominees for the 2006 Tech Awards and Charlottesville Podcasting’s Sean Tubbs is a finalist for the Community Award. Congratulations Sean! [I’ll provide a link to the full list of nominees as soon as I can find them online] The winners will be announced at […]
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Meadowcreek Parkway Interchange on WINA
Angela Tucker , Project Manager, with the City of Charlottesville appeared on WINA’s Charlottesville Live with Dick Mountjoy this morning to speak about the grade-separated interchange being designed for the intersection of the Route 250 Bypass, McIntire Road and the future Meadowcreek Parkway. The next meeting for this project is being held on Thursday, March […]
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March 2006 MPO Policy Board Meeting
The Policy Board of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) met on March 15th to discuss the transportation needs of the region. The MPO is the forum for cooperative transportation decision-making among Charlottesville, Albemarle, state and federal officials. Photo: City resident Jeanne Chase addresses MPO regarding her concerns about traffic around Fry’s Spring and the […]
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Supervisors Question Pace of Growth
At yesterday’s meeting of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, County leaders asked County Executive Bob Tucker to schedule a future work session to evaluate the rate of residential and commercial growth filling the County development pipeline . Supervisors expressed interest in receiving more information on the potential of phasing developments in the designated growth […]
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Rural Area Plans Moving Forward
On March 14, 2006, the Albemarle County Planning Commission held a work session to discuss recommendations pertaining to Rural Areas ordinances and specifically proposals for clustering of subdivisions, phasing of development, and the public review/input process. After the work session, Chair Marcia Joseph stated that the Commission had reached a consensus to send forward a […]
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Crozet plans cross 12,000 population threshold
There is a Crozet rezoning request before the Board of Supervisors this week ( Liberty Hall ) that has an interesting status report, prepared by staff, which shows that the currently approved and proposed housing in the Crozet development pipeline, if all built, would likely take Crozet beyond a population of 12,000 people. While nobody […]
