One reason we want Charlottesville and Albemarle to fully fund their inclusionary zoning requirements is that unfunded IZ is largely predicated upon the presence of high rents that come from local housing shortages.
cville: verified ICE activity this morning (Monday, April 20, 2026) at the Mallside Forest Apartments at the intersection of Mallside Forest Court and Putt Putt Place. three vehicles, six agents, rifle drawn. at least one person arrested.
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Livable Cville Crozet Meetup! Thursday April 23 5-7 pm. Bar Botanical 2025 Library Ave Crozet All are welcome!
Crozet & Albemarle neighbors: next Thursday, Livable meetup at Bar Botanical in Crozet! Hoping for a beautiful rooftop evening. Come chat about biking, walking, land use, or *literally anything else* with friendly, cool people.
Misinformation is misinformation. Even when it’s spread by tree lovers
this website is fr busted
I don't remember hearing supervisor Mallek express the same hesitations when, for instance, in 2023 she moved to spend $58m purchasing the land around Rivanna Station. It's easy enough to kick money out the door when you like the idea, and it's just as easy to pump the brakes when you don't.
For supervisor Mallek, IMO it's the same song anyone sings when they generally think something is a waste of time/money but need a more palatable cover: procedural concerns, we can't put the money in the fund until we've perfected the plan and process for how we spend it, etc.
I did appreciate that Missel was pretty aggressive about moving a bunch of other money into the AHIF; supervisors Lapisto-Kirtley and Mallek were totally uninterested. For Lapisto-Kirtley, I think there's some real fundamental misunderstandings about how affordable housing works, or what it is.
the personal property tax is regressive (notwithstanding Albemarle's discounted tax rate on the first $20k of personal vehicles), and it sucks to have this limited set of tools. But it was clear that 3 supervisors took affordable housing very, very seriously last night.
I was also heartened that supervisor Gallaway did the same napkin math I did before the meeting, albeit with more dedication to guessing the value of the average car in Albemarle. Our estimates on the impact of the personal property tax increase were similar: $1.50/month for a household like mine.
Four supervisors - Pruitt, Duncan, Gallaway, and Missel - had promised at the IMPACT Nehemiah Action a few weeks ago to push for $10m in the AHIF. Missel's choice to not vote in favor of a 15-cent personal property tax increase made the difference between keeping that promise and not.
By my count, we're at about $7m at minimum in the AHIF for FY27; if there's leftover money coming in from this year, it could be a little over $8m. What's interesting about this math is that, with a 15 cent personal property tax increase, the AHIF would've hit $10m for the first time.
I wish I'd had the wherewithal to try and livetweet last night's Albemarle board of supervisors meeting; it was a doozy. No 15-cent personal property tax increase this year, after swing vote Fred Missel brought it to a 3-3 deadlock. Eventually, the BOS found about 2m for affordable housing elsewhere
No joke I did tell them about how running dungeons and dragons games helped prepare me for political office.
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Nothing has me more convinced that Vance spends all day on reddit than this. This is quote-replying to the guy above you and going "erm, I believe you're forgetting a certain world war. one of the first two? 😏" He's trying to epic bacon the pope.
this is what Paulie Walnuts actually saw
Two people stand with a giant sign that says DJT unfit to serve I
A line of protesters holding anti-Trump signs
A person stands holding a sign that says no war no ice no kings
Two people hold a sign that says no more no ice free Palestine
No Trump. No KKK. No fascist USA. He showed up. So did we. We don’t cede ground to authoritarians.
Me when the boys are insisting i grab another beer from the fridge
The president swinging by the chicken strip to get a little treat for the secret service, causing the worst Caines drive thru line ever seen,
this motherfucker.
I do find it ironic how we have to have all these delicate conversations about what to do about ICE when Trump and co. have executive fiated USAID, DOE, the Wilson Center, institute of peace, CFPB, and now the Forest service
this is what peak performance looks like
Charlottesville: The official NOTAM is out. As suspected, it's Trump visiting his winery in Albemarle on Friday.
There are two 30-mile TFRs for this, one centered on CHO, the other on the winery. The one over CHO will be activated twice--for arrival and then departure.
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i unwrapped a dove chocolate and the wrapper said "you're only one decision away from making your dreams come true" and that feels like an auspicious message today
We know conventional street protests largely won't move the needle which means the things that need to be done are things you are not allowed to publicly advocate for.
the really strong and interesting thing about jaime lannister's Big Day is that GRRM writes the story such that Jaime is not a secret good guy or perfectly noble under his villainous veneer; it's that even this messed up dude can find in himself a streak of decency to prevent mass death.
jaime lannister stands bathed in golden light, white cloak billowing, his sword reddened, staring down at the body of the wicked dotard who nearly plunged hundreds of thousands of innocents into hellfire.
"The Kingslayer" by Michael Komarck
