Podcast for October 7, 2024: Charlottesville Planning Commission discusses new zoning, capital budget; UVA building 2,000 new beds for second-years

What’s brown and sounds like a bell? Certainly not rhubarb, which can be deep burgundy, light pink, crimson red, or light green. Rhubarb and doesn’t really have a sound unless it’s had a few drinks. In any case, perhaps it’s not appropriate to utilize non-sequiturs to frame podcast versions of this newsletter, but a lot of things aren’t appropriate and this one is hopefully fairly innocuous. This is an audio version of Charlottesville Community Engagement. I’m Sean Tubbs, and the pay-off is in the sonic edition easily playable by hitting the arrow in this post. 

In this edition:

• Afton Scientific to invest $200 million in expansion of Avon Court  (learn more) 

• The Charlottesville Planning Commission gives broad direction on what should be in the next capital improvement program (learn more)

• Charlottesville Planning Commission reviews the new zoning code at seven months in (learn more)

• There may soon be changes to the way that the Virginia Department of Transportation classifies some area roads including ones in Fifeville and the Woolen Mills (a podcast preview!)

• UVA continues to plan to build up to 2,000 new beds to so a requirement for second-year students to live on Grounds can proceed (a podcast preview)  

A conceptual rendering for Afton Scientific’s expanded manufacturing facility in Albemarle County (Credit: Collins Engineering)

The only shout-out: Celebrating the community’s other information organizations!

In today’s first  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.