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@Sean - Consider your phrasing here with new multi-family that's being built without "affordable units." Are you applying this same logic to single-family home sales in Charlottesville? For instance, consider a $1m house off Rugby Road that is sold to a non-developer. Odds are (extremely) high that said lot will continue to be just a house, and the lot will continue to not be "affordable." But, no vitriol or even a remark in your newsletter about the sale.

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The segment on the Hillcrest Development has been updated to correct an error. 303 Alderman is a single-family house that will be replaced by six townhouses that are three stories in height on the same lot. I incorrectly described the unit as you can see in the strike-through text in the segment.

Additionally, the headline for this entire newsletter likely should have not brought up the affordability component because the story itself does not do enough to explain some of the distinctions. This will be corrected as that segment is posted to Information Charlottesville. I appreciate everyone's patience as I continue this experiment in local journalism.

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