While The Flats at West Village — a large, student-oriented housing complex on Charlottesville’s West Main Street — was approved by Charlottesville’s City Council in December 2012, even some who supported the development now say it does not look... More

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Behind a whitened and deteriorating brick wall off High Street stands the old Albemarle County jail that looks seasoned even compared with the many historic buildings that surround it in Court Square. The building that was the site of... More

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Slideshow of old Albemarle County... More

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Plans to open a hotel next year in Old Trail Village in Crozet have crumbled. Owner David Hilliard said he had secured full funding for the equity but could not reach terms with the bank for the planned four-story,... More

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Charlottesville High School was getting ready to start last school year with a lot of new faces: two assistant principals, an athletic director and a principal that was hired after a months-long nationwide search. But one week before the... More

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Fifteen-year-old Megan Bird remembers watching the news a few years ago and wondering what exactly people were talking about as they discussed the Charlottesville City Council. Two years later, she not only has a much better understanding of how... More

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Some Albemarle County farmers hoping to hold large events on their properties or use agritourism to make money soon may have to get a zoning clearance. The Planning Commission voted unanimously earlier this week to require farms with 21... More

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The Venable Neighborhood Association is one step closer to making a stretch of Rugby Road the second historic conservation district in Charlottesville. The Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend approval of the association’s request to make place the... More

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When Patricia Taylor’s 2-year-old son Charlie started losing his language skills, developing a shorter attention span and making odd movements with his hands and body, she typed some of the behaviors into Google. The search results were clear: he... More

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About a month after the city hosted a workshop with a national planning and architectural firm to create more “complete streets,” the same design firm returned to focus on improving pedestrian and bicycle accessibility in Charlottesville. The effort is... More

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The walls are still empty in Carrie Rainey’s office, but after five weeks on the job as Charlottesville’s first urban designer, the maps of city streets and proposed construction projects flood her desk and fill her time. The city... More

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    Students sit quietly in Kathryn Durkee’s dimly lit middle school classroom, studying an element from the Periodic Table. The room in Albemarle’s Community Public Charter School feels more like a spa than a classroom: soft music chimes... More

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