Fox Sports says that Dave Leitao has resigned from the Cavaliers. He went from ACC Coach of the Year a few years ago to finishing next-to-last this year. #
Fox Sports says that Dave Leitao has resigned from the Cavaliers. He went from ACC Coach of the Year a few years ago to finishing next-to-last this year. #
Media General is shutting down their Washington DC bureau, laying off their six reporters there. Surely the path to profitability runs straight through making coverage worse. #
Virgil Goode has filed to run for his old seat. He says he’s not sure if he’ll run, but this lets him fundraise. #
The whole of the Board of Supervisors has come together to support a 74.2¢ real estate tax rate, Brandon Shulleeta writes in the Daily Progress today. The original debate was between starting with a 74.5¢ rate or a 90¢ rate, and whittling down from there, with Ken Boyd wanting the former and David Slutzky wanting the latter. (The existing rate is 71¢ per $100 of assessed value.) Slutzky had wanted at least 80¢ in the final rate, but told reporters after last night’s meeting that his constituents had told him, overwhelmingly, that taxes shouldn’t be raised now. Setting the rate at 74.2¢ keeps the dollar value of county revenues the same, as well as the dollar cost of taxes to property owners. Note that this wasn’t a vote to set the rate, just to determine the rate that they’ll advertise for a public hearing, after which they’ll set the rate.
Albemarle County is considering a significant increase on the cost of development, Brian McNeill wrote in the Progress yesterday. For example, right now they charge $720 to review a preliminary plat submitted by a developer. But a study of their own staff time has found that the real cost of that time is much higher, and so now they intend to charge $4,100 for the same procedure. The county went to the Planning Commission to get approval to raise those rates, hoping to cover 50% the costs incurred by developers, but the Planning Commission ended up approving covering 75% of those costs via fees, with the rest being made up by you and me in the form of taxes. Jay Willer, of the Blue Ridge Home Builders, complains to the Progress that developers shouldn’t have to pay for those costs, but that the rest of us should bear that cost on their behalf, which is rather the opposite of the libertarian stance generally taken by developers.
The Planning Commission only approved these increases by a one-vote margin. Now the matter goes before the Board of Supervisors.
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