Some time has passed since the last audio edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement and now it is finally time. This one goes out on the first Saturday of November 2024 and if you don’t like this one, there are four others you can try out when the time comes. I’m Sean Tubbs, and there is no new content in here unless you count my entry in a local contest!
This edition also doubles as a run-down of the top stories from this week. Or at least the ones that have already been posted to Information Charlottesville. That’s the archive version of this newsletter that serves as an important component in the mechanism that is Town Crier Productions.
On today’s show:
Albemarle Planning Commission briefed on land use chapter of new Comprehensive Plan (learn more)
Written opinion issued in legal ruling that halted Arlington’s missing middle zoning (learn more)
Plans filed for 12 units near intersection of U.S. 250 / McIntire Road / John Warner Parkway (learn more)
Federally-mandated transportation body endorses changes to road classifications (learn more)
Charlottesville City Manager Sanders briefs Council on other community interventions such as purchase of portable restrooms (learn more)
Charlottesville seeking firms to cull deer and other procurement updates (learn more)
Charlottesville also is looking for performers for the Grand Illumination on December 6 and you can listen to my entry in the podcast (learn more)
First-shout: ACHS taking orders for book profiling local artist Frances Brand
Frances Brand lived from 1901 to 1990 and in her later life she undertook a series of portraits of individuals from Charlottesville and Albemarle County that would become her Gallery of Firsts.
Brand was a U.S. Army major, a civil rights activist, a world traveler, a devoted churchgoer, and an accomplished artist, among other things. Some remember her as a colorful eccentric who loved to dress in purple, while others knew her as a committed and lifelong social activist.
Behind each of Brand’s portraits of these 20th-century pioneers is a special story. To collect some of them, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society has created a book that features 51 portraits from the full collection of currently known Firsts portraits and share some of the compelling stories about those depicted.
ACHS is taking pre-sale orders now for shipping in November. To place your order, visit the ACHS store.
Second shout-out: Celebrating the community’s other information organizations!
In today’s second shout-out in the form of a house ad, I want to make sure everyone knows that every edition of the regular newsletter (not the podcast ones) ends with a section called Reading Material. Charlottesville Community Engagement is just one offering in a landscape that includes the Charlottesville Daily Progress, C-Ville Weekly, Charlottesville Tomorrow, and Cville Right Now, I curate links from these sources because I believe a truly informed community needs multiple perspectives.
There’s also the Cavalier Daily, Vinegar Hill Magazine, the Fluvanna Review, the Crozet Gazette, NBC29, CBS19, and other sources. But if you look every day, you’ll find links to articles in national publications, all linked to give you more perspectives on some of the issues of our times.
Dashboard for Town Crier Productions as one week becomes the next
Podcast edition for November 2, 2024: Albemarle PC discusses how to get more residential density during AC44 discussion and City Manager Sam Sanders tells Council about portable restrooms