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Some guy trying to cross the train tracks on grounds impaled himself on the top of the spiked, 6′ tall fence designed to keep pedestrians off the tracks. #
Progress owner Media General is having a hard time paying its debt. #
A local guy by the name of Peyton Williams intends to run against Rep. Robert Hurt. #
Somebody has taped a piece of paper to a statue! Alert the populace! #
Remember the UVA Law student who invented a story of how he was racially profiled and humiliated by UVA police? He’s been acquitted of honor code violations. I guess nothing is an honor code violation. #
Three months after winning his case against Fluvanna County, a court has ordered the county to pay Bryan Rothamel $37,000 in legal fees after they passed a law prohibiting him (and others) from displaying the county seal. #
Albemarle will issue an RFP for a new Crozet library. I’ll believe it when I see it. #
Amtrak’s Northeast Regional will likely have its funding renewed by Congress, continuing our daily rail service to D.C. #
Albemarle needs you to volunteer to serve on boards. ACSA, Places 29, Pantops Advisory, Planning, Police Citizens Advisory, Region Ten, and RSWA Citizens Advisory all need members. #
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For years, music venues stretched along West Main. Why would RLC feel that this area on Preston, abutting the Tenth and Page and Rose Hill Drive neighborhoods, would be more preferable? Why not put in the former Starr Hill building and expand it into the adjoining building if more space is needed?
Also a note for Nailgun, there are homes in the Tenth and Page area that have sold recently for prices in the range of $300 – $409 thousand. I’d call that some signs of gentrification.
The reason RLC didn’t expand Starr Hill is because they didn’t own it. I think this is a stop gap measure while the Jefferson gets the big makeover. It would be nice to have but I think the needs of the neighbors do need to be put first.
I think this application is back on an upcoming Planning Commission’s agenda.