The NGIC expansion won’t have the anticipated impact on the population: only a minority will bother to relocate their families. #
The NGIC expansion won’t have the anticipated impact on the population: only a minority will bother to relocate their families. #
A city employee is quietly keeping a record of buildings that have been torn down. I’m glad somebody’s keeping track. #
I just stumbled across “Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville“—that’s going on my to-read list. #
City Council has agreed to divest its holdings in any companies that do business with Sudan’s government, Rachana Dixit writes in the Progress. The city doesn’t think that any of its $87M in investments are going to be affected, but it does set a policy for staff going forward. Sudan is a seriously bad situation, with the government having killed hundreds of thousands of their own citizens in the past few years. Most states in the nation now have policies similar to Charlottesville’s, as do nineteen other cities.
There’s a dispute over whether to light up the softball fields at Darden Towe Park, Rachana Dixit writes in the Progress. The YMCA going in at McIntire means the end of their (lit) softball fields, so there’s a lot of interest in spending $500-$700k to add lighting to the three fields at Darden Towe. Supporters include softball players, while opponents include folks who live around the park and those who aren’t thrilled with spending over a half million dollars on this when we’re facing a budget shortfall. Both the city and the county will hold hearings on the jointly-operated park in October.
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