Sitemap - 2020 - Charlottesville Community Engagement

December 31, 2020: Blue Ridge Health District announces vaccination plans; Albemarle's year in review

December 30, 2020: Blanding runs for Virginia Governor; Trustees get update on JMRL operations

December 28, 2020: COVID cases since Christmas Eve; Third day of Kwanzaa

December 24, 2020: UVA Health officials give update on COVID vaccine roll-out

December 23, 2020: An update on the Belmont Bridge; I-81 gets a podcast; Northam makes changes to unemployment

December 22, 2020: COVID cases continue to grow; Three big commercial transactions in Charlottesville this month

Week Ahead for December 21, 2020: Charlottesville City Council to finish the year with a packed agenda

December 17, 2020: Governor Northam announces budget amendments to address pandemic; Albemarle learns more about Rio/29 form-based code

December 16, 2020: Hotel redevelopment for below-market housing in Albemarle moves forward

Charlottesville Planning Commission gets year-end update on consultant-led initiative

December 15, 2020: Charlottesville Planning Commission updated on affordable housing strategy; Elector Scott reflects on historic vote

Week Ahead for December 14, 2020: Charlottesville Climate Action, redeveloping Red Carpet Inn for those in need

December 11, 2020: Northam institutes "wishy washy" curfew; Chief Brackney calls out Unitarian Universalist church leaders

December 10, 2020: Albemarle and Charlottesville police chiefs discuss community policing; Matthew Desmond talks evictions

December 9, 2020: Democratic field for Governor getting crowded with Carroll Foy, McAuliffe announcing their candidacies; Another Virginia record for COVID cases

December 8, 2020: Health director expressed concern over rising cases; Northam signs ban on "no-knock warrants"

December 7, 2020: Republicans to choose statewide candidates through unassembled convention

Week Ahead for December 7, 2020: Albemarle officials to review draft housing strategy that seeks thousands of additional homes

December 4, 2020: Virginia is shifting how rental and mortgage relief program will be administered

December 3, 2020: Northam on COVID vaccine; Albemarle takes next step on taxing cigarettes

December 2, 2020: Albemarle zoning board upholds North Pointe construction entrance; Supervisor Price holds Scottsville district town hall

December 1, 2020: Jackson P. Burley High School now listed on National Register of Historic Places

November 30, 2020: Staunton reports 206 COVID cases today; Third November homicide in Charlottesville

Week Ahead for November 30, 2020: 11 months down, one to go!

November 27, 2020: Shop local; Five days left to comment on city planning documents

November 26, 2020: Albemarle Broadband Authority briefed on rural internet expansion projects; a market for recycled glass?

November 25, 2020: Citing traffic impact, Albemarle planning panel recommends denial of 130-unit neighborhood near Glenmore

November 24, 2020: North Carolina Governor - "We are in danger"

Monday, November 23, 2020: Passenger rail advocates seek comment on post-pandemic passenger comfort

Week Ahead for November 23, 2020: The Grateful Edition

November 21, 2020: Crozet master plan update; Albemarle stream health; Code for Charlottesville Meetup today

November 20, 2020: Charlottesville School Board approves continued planning for Return to Face to Face Learning

November 19, 2020: Northam, Fauci address the COVID-19 pandemic a week before Thanksgiving

November 18, 2020: Parking panel supports non-police enforcement; Design panel reviews Starbucks mural

November 17, 2020: Virginia hits another one-day record for COVID cases; Council talks about 5th Street's future

Council wants more info before giving direction on capital spending

November 16, 2020: City Council to discuss 5th Street traffic study

Week Ahead for November 16, 2020: A Starbucks on West Main Street?

November 14, 2020: Virginia, West Virginia to enter into further COVID-19 restrictions

November 13, 2020: Council briefed on capacity for capital projects; Flood waters recede at Scottsville

November 12, 2020: Eight months into the pandemic; State Farm to vacate Pantops operations center

November 11, 2020: 5th Street safety petition; Planning Commission seeks rezoning on parking structure land

November 10, 2020: House of Delegates passes by on Northam's COVID budget amendments; A fourth fatality in Greene County

November 9, 2020: Virginia hit new COVID record on Saturday; arguments held at Virginia Supreme Court in statue case

Week Ahead for November 9, 2020: Your guide to this week in local government

November 6, 2020: COVID cases still on the rise in southwest Virginia; Online portal coming to locate affordable housing

November 5, 2020: Spanberger declares victory; Roanoke area health director calls for halt to contact sports; HAC reviews affordable housing plan

November 4, 2020: Good beats Webb; Biden carries Virginia; 7th District results still being counted

November 3, 2020: Election Day; Pen Park graves; Scottsville's vision for West Downtown

November 2, 2020: Albemarle prepares to count votes; Regional glass manufacturing?

Week Ahead for November 2, 2020: Local government continues amidst the national election

October 30, 2020: A longer look at our health district's COVID numbers

October 29, 2020: Northam reminds Virginia of continued COVID threat; Albemarle, Charlottesville and UVA leaders talk equity

Council approves agreement for Friendship Court funding

October 28, 2020: I-64's exit 124 to convert to a "diverging diamond"

October 27, 2020 #2: This time with audio!

October 27, 2020: JMRL plans more limited in-person service; Virginia plans future for rail

October 26, 2020: New name coming soon for future botanical garden

Week Ahead for October 26, 2020: Albemarle Charlottesville, and UVA officials to meet to talk equity and inclusion

Regional Transit Partnership discuss fare-free, lessons from the pandemic

October 23, 2020: UVA to return in February; Charlottesville schools might return in January; Senator Kaine on housing

Thursday, October 22, 2020: Albemarle's top official says "It is not back to business as usual"

October 21, 2020: Increasing broadband in Albemarle; reducing GHGs through teleworking; tents allowed on the Downtown Mall

Council to seek lower costs for West Main Streetscape through value engineering

October 20, 2020: Public housing projects move forward after Council talks on CRHA financial sustainability, CCDC property tax liability

October 19, 2020: Climate action, climate kits, environmental justice at DEQ and Janisse Ray on pandemic-related change

Week Ahead for October 19, 2020: An important week for affordable housing

October 16, 2020: An update on public housing redevelopment in Charlottesville

October 15, 2020: 5th and Avon group to get briefing on Albemarle's new housing policy

October 14, 2020: Contact-tracing of Northam discussed; voter registration deadline extended

October 13, 2020: Gold mining in Buckingham; Charlottesville gets a new fire chief; voter registration system down statewide

October 12, 2020: Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day in Virginia

Week Ahead for October 12, 2020: Fifeville multi-family proposal, recycling buildings in Albemarle, and Greene to begin comp plan review

October 9, 2020: Albemarle K-3 student to begin hybrid in-person instruction on November 9

October 8, 2020: Albemarle adopts climate plan; Albemarle School Board to consider return of early elementary students

October 7, 2020: Building Goodness Foundation announces first five C'Ville Builds projects

October 6, 2020: Health director briefs City Council on increase in cases; new name for health district

October 5, 2020: Charlottesville has doubled COVID cases since September 1

Week Ahead for October 5: Albemarle tackles climate change, housing policy; City Council meets twice

October 2, 2020: $450,000 more for regional rent relief program

October 1, 2020: COVID updates, street sweeping in Albemarle, new library hours, and more community news

September 30, 2020: Charlottesville gives input on Strategic Plan

Council to discuss future of $49 million West Main Streetscape

September 29, 2020: New pandemic metric places region "at moderate community transmission"

September 28, 2020: Positive test rate drops to 4.7 percent; Charlottesville housing market info

Week Ahead for September 28, 2020

September 25, 2020: Over 3,500 Albemarle residents have voted; Governor Northam has COVID

September 24, 2020: Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Friends pivot to pop-up sales

September 23, 2020: UVA limits gatherings to less than five, students asked to not leave Charlottesville

September 22, 2020: Albemarle school enrollment down; 70 miles of railway improvements

September 21, 2020: Habitat breaks ground on Southwood; City school begin planning for in-person return

Week Ahead for September 21, 2020

September 18, 2020: 15 total cases at UVA dorm, quarantine continues

September 17, 2020: COVID cluster in UVA dorm; more cases at Fluvanna prison

September 16, 2020: 41 cases reported today in Fluvanna tied to women's prison

September 15, 2020: PTO School Reopening Fund raises $56,500 in first month

September 14, 2020: Confederate statue down, George Rogers Clark statue approved to go

Week Ahead for September 14, 2020

Special edition: Tarron Richardson resigns as Charlottesville City Manager; City Attorney Blair to serve as interim

September 11, 2020: CBIC hands out annual awards at virtual gala

September 10, 2020: Good and Webb have virtual debate; Albemarle prepares for early voting

Crozet Master Plan serves as test conversation for “missing middle” housing 

September 9, 2020: COVID-19 Update from TJHD's Dr. Bonds; Albemarle gives away Confederate markers

September 8, 2020: Back to School; Charlottesville to update Strategic Plan

Week Ahead for September 8, 2020: A Very Busy Tuesday

September 7, 2020: COVID-19 update for Labor Day

September 4, 2020: Charlottesville's positive COVID rate is higher than surrounding counties

September 3, 2020: Albemarle's Confederate statue to come down on September 12

September 2, 2020: "We need to remain vigilant, we continue to monitor the data"

September 1, 2020: More legal aid for those facing eviction; sales tax collections increase in surrounding counties

August 31, 2020: UVA moves forward with reopening; Live Arts Forges Ahead with new season

Week Ahead for August 31, 2020: "Middle-missing housing" in Crozet? ; Breezy Hill rezoning to go before Albemarle Supervisors

August 28, 2020: Charlottesville takes tough tone on protests; RTP talks transit; book recycling

August 27, 2020: Leadership Charlottesville alumni talk school openings; City tree commission makes its case

August 26, 2020: RWSA to keep Buck Mountain land; cheaper water supply expansion in Greene?

August 25, 2020: Charlottesville public housing update; Chamber facilitates its way to an award

August 24, 2020: UVa virtually welcomes students; addressing "sunny-day flooding"

An update on Charlottesville's Comprehensive Plan update

Week Ahead for August 24, 2020: Reservoir discussions: Past, present and future

August 21, 2020: Details on regional rent relief program; TJPDC to pursue regional broadband

August 20, 2020: COVID cases force University of Lynchburg and Eastern Mennonite University to move to online instruction

August 19, 2020: First day of classes at UVA Law; General Assembly convenes for COVID and reform session

August 18, 2020: Council takes step on water supply plan; Stonefield updates; Regal reopens on Friday

August 17, 2020: Latest COVID info; what's on in local government; "We're Going To Be O.K."

Week Ahead for August 17: Info about upcoming area meetings

August 14, 2020: Black legislators brief police review board; An app for better recycling

August 13, 2020: CRHA meets, PLACE meets, SWAAC meets; Live Arts takes the virtual stage

August 12, 2020: Three years later; JRWA to consider alternatives to Rassawek site

August 11, 2020: UVA to reopen with caution; Albemarle and Charlottesville groups to discuss housing policies

Week Ahead for August 10, 2020

August 10, 2020: UVA to brief Charlottesville community; Testing sites this week

August 7, 2020: Albemarle votes to remove Confederate statue; Charlottesville seeks names for streets

August 6, 2020: COVIDWISE launches; race and representation in public libraries

August 5, 2020: Virginia seeks rapid COVID-19 tests; Charlottesville hears about police reform

August 4, 2020: COVID concerns in Lynchburg; Council hears complaints on listening session

August 3, 2020: UVA Board of Visitors talks reopening, COVID-19 contingencies

July 31, 2020: Virtual start to the school in Albemarle and Charlottesville, Virginia Humanities announces new HQ

July 30, 2020: Superintendent Atkins recommends online-only start for schools, energy inequity in Charlottesville

July 29, 2020: Hampton Roads restrictions, Delegate Rasoul's diagnosis

July 28, 2020: Albemarle and Charlottesville vote to require masks, limit gathering sizes

July 27, 2020: Albemarle Supervisors and City Council both meet to discuss COVID-19 restrictions

July 24, 2020: An update on community testing from Dr. Bonds

July 23, 2020: Albemarle takes a pause on emergency ordinance, STEM school supplies, testing woes?

July 22, 2020: Travel quarantine, Chapter 11 for Worldstrides, Greene water

July 21, 2020: Preston-Grady moves forward, mobile home development, and latest COVID numbers

July 20, 2020: Greene County water, Council action, mobile home park rezoning in Albemarle

July 17, 2020: 1,002 new cases, $1.25 in business funding and a 58 percent decline in tax revenue

July 16, 2020: 2007 deaths, back to Phase 2?

July 15, 2020: Masks, water, meetings

July 14 - Newcast - 801 new COVID-19 cases, pandemic fatigue, and more

July 13, 2020 - COVID-19 numbers, Smart Growth America wins Rio/29 contract

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