Blogger and C’ville election official Rick Sincere provides the listing of all official candidates for city offices on his blog. The latest additions include, for school board, Colette Blount, Kathleen Galvin and Lynette Meynig and, for the first-ever election for the city’s two Soil and Water Conservation District Director, the addition of Republican John Pfaltz to incumbent Democrats John Conover and Richard Collins. For a while it looked like there may be not be enough candidates for the open school board seats but, as it turns out, there should be some decent competition. The Republicans couldn’t muster a single candidate for the three City Council seats, demonstrating that even they now agree that Rob Schilling’s 2002 election was a fluke.
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Preston Coiner’s plans to develop his protected historic property in Woolen Mills has his neighbors upset, but it looks like Council isn’t going to step in. A typographical error on the part of the city removed the land’s Individually Protected Property designation. Coiner bought the land after that time, believing he had the right to build on it. The accidental misclassification of the property wouldn’t seem to remove the designation, but the Board of Zoning Appeals just isn’t sure what to do. City Council has heard enough about this that they considered taking it up at their last meeting, The Hook writes, but they seem to regard the situation as impenetrable as the BZA did. On the one hand, the city wants to be fair to Coiner but, on the other hand, presumably there are still-intact reasons that the Timberlake-Branham house was protected in the first place.
Video of the meeting can be watched on the city’s website.
Tom Loach will not be running for the Board of Supervisors, Brian Wheeler revealed on Coy Barefoot’s show yesterday. It was just five weeks ago that Loach announced his candidacy. Apparently he got enough signatures to get on the ballot, but was presumably concerned that he’d split the vote with Democratic candidate Ann Maleck, who announced back in January. The incumbent is Republican David Wyant, who is just finishing his first term.
Wal-Mart is going to open a 153,000 square foot location near the 29/33 intersection in Greene County, Brian McNeill writes in the Progress. The company figures that enough people drive down to the location on 29N, in Albemarle, that they’d get even more business with another location 11 miles north. Though Greene is “ecstatic” about the new jobs, Wal-Mart actually destroys more jobs than they create, since they put locally-owned companies out of business by undercutting them, and those jobs at Wal-Mart pay less and provide less benefits. Local retailers, in fact, describe themselves as “afraid,” as well they should be.
Wal-Mart recently announced they’d be opening a Louisa location. They also operate a distribution center in Louisa, which was subsidized by the state with a $500,000 grant, a strange thing to do for the nation’s largest private employer.
The planned interchange at the corner of 250 and McIntire will likely pave right over the Dogwood Vietnam Memorial, Seth Rosen explains in today’s Daily Progress, and some veterans are upset about it. The memorial was the first such Vietnam memorial in the nation, established in 1966. The city has offered to move the memorial, but some Vietnam vets aren’t buying it. Also in the path of the interchange are the skate park and the rescue squad. For more about the planned construction, see the city’s interchange website.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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