Soundboard 5-18-2012 - Charlottesville's news straight from the source
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Meet Your Government: Claudette Grant
May 20Meet Your Government: Claudette Grant, Senior Planner, Albemarle County »
VDOT to fully fund Belmont Bridge, Hillsdale Drive Extension
May 18Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton appears to have fulfilled a promise to pay for several road projects in return for local support for the Western Bypass of U.S. 29 in Albemarle County. Last summer, Connaughton indicated in writing ... »
City parks board recommends plan to remove McIntire golf by 2020
May 17The golf course on the eastern side of Charlottesville’s McIntire Park will make way for other uses if a master plan recommended Wednesday by the city’s parks and recreation advisory board is adopted by the City Council. The board voted 7-2 on a transi... »
County staff outline new development review process with early engagement of neighbors
May 16The Albemarle County Planning Commission has signaled its willingness to support changes to the process through which rezoning and special-use permits are handled by county government. In January 2010, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors adopted an econ... »
Sustainability innovations shared on local food, buildings, and autos
Apr 26The Tom Tom Founders Festival continued its series of weekly innovation talks Wednesday with a panel discussion examining Charlottesville-based entrepreneurs working in the field of sustainability and sustainable design. “My interest was to bring a con... »
Judge Moon hears testimony in Meadowcreek interchange case
Apr 25Opponents of the Meadow Creek Parkway had their day in federal court Wednesday to argue that the Federal Highway Administration unlawfully split the road into three segments in order to avoid full federal scrutiny of the project. “What the FHWA has don... »
Planning Commission recommends changes to allow more rural lodging
Apr 25The Albemarle Planning Commission has voted 4-2 to recommend zoning changes to facilitate the opening of more bed and breakfasts in the county’s rural areas. Albemarle’s zoning code currently allows property owners to open up to five rooms to overnight... »
Chloramines in drinking water to be topic of public forum in June
Apr 25The future plans for treating public drinking water dominated Tuesday’s meeting of the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority. However, the plan to introduce chloramines as a new disinfectant wasn’t even on the board’s meeting agenda. It was comments by two C... »
Group pushes for public hearing on bypass
Apr 24A task force convened to advise the Virginia Department of Transportation on the design of the Western Bypass of U.S. 29 has requested that the agency conduct a full public hearing on the roadway as part of an ongoing environmental assessment. “Public ... »
Meadow Creek streambank restoration set to begin
Apr 24A project to realign the flow of a section of Charlottesville’s Meadow Creek is scheduled to begin later this spring after six years of planning. “We’re on the cusp of making this a reality,” Brian Daly, the director of Charlottesville’s Parks and Recr... »
Charlottesville residents evaluate downtown connectivity, diversity, and equality
Apr 23Issues of connectivity in downtown Charlottesville remain a hot topic for planners and residents. Following up on a grassroots design competition for the Belmont Bridge — which brought new ideas for connecting West Main Street, Belmont and the Downtown... »
Meet Your Government: Pamela Murray
Apr 22Meet Your Government: Pamela Murray, Engineering Draftsman, Neighborhood Development Services, City of Charlottesville »
Soundboard 4-20-2012 - Charlottesville's news straight from the source
Apr 22Soundboard 4-20-2012 - Charlottesville's news straight from the source »
Chemical engineer briefs ACSA on chloramines
Apr 21A chemical engineer with the firm Hazen and Sawyer briefed the Albemarle County Service Authority Thursday on the forthcoming use of chloramines to disinfect treated drinking water. “Chloramines have been in use since 1917 and we have a very long histo... »
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