Category: Charlottesville Tomorrow

Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joined Coy Barefoot on the April 8 edition of the show to discuss growth, development and pie. The last item is perhaps a new wrinkle for Charlottesville Tomorrow, which usually focuses on land use, transportation and community design issues. But, topics on this episode include:

• What foods do you think of when you of Charlottesville and Albemarle County?
• County adopts real property tax rate and budget; City to adopt its budget April 15
• Are Albemarle County businesses and residents accidentally paying taxes to Charlottesville?
• Charlottesville City Council votes to make second Mall crossing permanent
  
• Land use taxation to be revisited in Albemarle County
• Planning Commission recommends denial of new business park on Berkmar Drive

This week on Brian Wheeler’s growth and development update:

• Brian answers a question from Betty Mooney about Tom Frederick’s appearance on the show
• Brian also asks listeners who makes the best pies in Albemarle County
• Fifth and Avon development before Board of Supervisors this week
• UVa details the changing face of the UVa Medical Center

Brian Wheeler is executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, a non-partisan organization that covers growth and development issues in our area. This week on the show:

• More on Bundoran Farm, a rural preservation development south of Charlottesville
• Supervisor Rooker seeks to re-open stream buffer discussion
• Citizens continue to dispute the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority’s Community Water Supply Plan
• A primer on how to use online video on sites like Charlottesville Tomorrow
• RWSA sets preliminary water and sewer rates
• Uncertainty about the Advance Mills bridge replacement
• Revenues for state transportation expected to be down 44%
• The latest on the Meadowcreek Parkway Interchange

Do you have a question about growth in our area? Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow can probably answer it for you. Charlottesville Tomorrow is a non-partisan organization that covers growth and development issues in the region. and every week, Brian joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” for an update on what’s happening.

This week:

• Community and Commissioners discuss boundaries for preemptive zoning in Downtown Crozet
• A County residents calls in to complain about a new cell phone
• Supervisors to hear rural protection ordinances on February 6 (C-Ville Weekly has two stories on the topic)
• The fate of Albemarle Place remains uncertain
• Downtown Mall renovations explained
• News on the Eastern Connector

Brian Wheeler has the latest on growth and development issues on the January 22 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now!”

This week on the show:

• Ann Mallek’s election changes the balance on the Board of Supervisors
• Board postpones action on rural protection ordinances to February 6 meeting
• Growth area residents feel pinched by development

V The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors are giving further review to a recommendation from the Albemarle County Planning Commission to stop using money from the Virginia Department of Transportation to pave gravel roads in the rural areas of the County. At a work session on the Six Year Secondary road plan held on January 9, 2008, the Board asked for more analysis from County staff on the relationship between paving and development rights.

(read more at Charlottesville Tomorrow)

On the January 15th edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot, Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow. This week topics include:

• An update on the North Pointe development, approved by the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors in 2006
  
• The current status of the Places29 Master Plan
• Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission begin work in 2008
• City Planning Commission has two open vacancies
• A look at upcoming meetings of government boards and commissions
• County Board of Supervisors discusses transportation priorities

The Charlottesville City Council has held its first meeting of 2008 welcoming newly-elected members Satyendra Huja and Holly Edwards. City Manager Gary O’Connell called the meeting to order as the Council’s first order of business was its biennial organizational meeting in which it elects a Mayor and Vice Mayor to two-year terms.

In his first motions as a new City Councilor, Huja nominated Dave Norris for Mayor and Julian Taliaferro for Vice Mayor. Both were elected unanimously to their new leadership positions.

For more information on Council’s organizational meeting for 2008, visit Charlottesville Tomorrow.

2007 was a blockbuster year for growth and development in Charlottesville, and Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to give the top ten growth stories of 2007. Visit Charlottesville Tomorrow’s blog to see the whole list, and weigh in with your comments.

Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” every Tuesday to talk about growth and development in area. This week, a look at the run-up to the budget cycle coming up in Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville. The County is moving to a five-year budget this year, and Brian explains what that means. Also:

• New Supervisor Ann Mallek appoints Tom Loach to the Planning Commission, and other appointment news
• Final campaign donation numbers in the Board of Supervisor’s race
• The rural church trend in Albemarle County continues with Grace Baptist Church and First Church of the Nazarene

Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joins Coy Barefoot each Monday on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to talk about growth and development. This week: an update on the Eastern Connector, possible obstacles to the Meadowcreek Parkway Interchange, questions about when a project meeting is public, Crozet cohousing, the future of the Hillsdale Connector, and updates on various commercial projects in the development pipeline. They include Hollymead Town Center, North Pointe, Albemarle Place and 5th Street & Avon Center.

At its meeting on November 14, 2007, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved the rezoning of six acres near Crozet for a planned residential development. That’s not unusual, but this time, the property will be used to bring something called co-housing to the county.

Charlottesville Tomorrow produced a podcast of the public hearing where the meeting was approved. You can also read the narrative on the Charlottesville Tomorrow blog.