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We advocate for policies to build an inclusive Charlottesville area with affordable housing, sustainable transportation & healthy neighborhoods welcoming to all livablecville.org

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 04/10/2026
This is the animating principle of my YIMBYism.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 25m
We just sent out the October edition of our newsletter. It covers #WeekWithoutDriving, an update on the Holiday Drive shelter, a new safe school streets group, Tree Week, and much more! mailchi.mp/livablecvill...
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Livable Cville 🏡 October 2026 Newsletter
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 8h
We are halfway through the #WeekWithoutDriving! Check out our mid-week update: mailchi.mp/livablecvill...
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Midweek Check-in for WeekWithoutDriving Cville 🚌
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CUrbanism Club @curbanism.bsky.social · 11h
Daily Reflection on #WeekWithoutDriving - Do you think you have saved any money by participating in Week Without Driving? @weekwithoutdriving @americawalks @non_drivers
photo of women walking outside with text that reads Do you think you have saved any money by participating in Week Without Driving?
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 11h
Here's an invitation from #WeekWithoutDriving to reflect on the high cost of car ownership
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 04/10/2026
👇🏽 🌮 🎉 👇🏽
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The weather Thursday is going to be fantastic! Come join us at Ix @brazos.bsky.social for tacos and a beverage. We hope to see you there!
Livable Cville Meetup!
Thursday, Oct 8, 5-7pm
All are welcome!
Brazos Tacos
IX Art Park
925 2nd St SE
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For good reason, people focus on detached single family exclusionary zoning as being really bad. But it went hand in hand with pushing neighborhood scale commercial uses out of residential areas, creating car dependency, furthering segregation, and making vast swaths of development pretty crappy.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 04/10/2026
Walking around the residential neighborhoods of greater Charlottesville, it is frustrating how far it's necessary to walk to find a store. In some newer quasi-new-urbanist developments, their absence is striking. Everybody is worse off for this zoning prohibition.
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YY Ahn @yyahn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is great! Check out this post yyahn.com/wiki/Leaf-bl... that I shared with the city right after they switched Downtown Mall leaf blowers to electric!
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Leaf blower pollution
Imagine 300 Ford F-150 Raptors circling around your house. Now imagine one gardener using a gas leaf blower. Guess which releases more of the hydrocarbon...
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Rich Fravel @rjfravel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ep. 124: Reducing Homelessness with Rapid Rehousing with Brian Blackwell
Podcast Episode · UCLA Housing Voice · September 30 · 1h 14m
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We strongly support this approach to Halloween and would love to see it happen in Charlottesville
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The City Of Charlottesville has announced a program to provide rebates for the purchase of electric landscaping equipment. This is very exciting! #ElectrifyEverything More information here: www.charlottesville.gov/2044/Electri...
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Electric Landscaping Rebates | Charlottesville, VA
Incentive program to promote purchasing of electric landscaping tools (mowers, leaf blowers, etc.) by Charlottesville residents and businesses.
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cville1989🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @cville1989.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Not only a housing problem but ALWAYS a housing problem.”
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We hope to see you tonight at Community Climate Collaborative’s Party for the Planet! 5:30-8pm at Ix Art Park.
COMMUNITY CLIMATE COLLABORATIVE PRESENTS THE FIFTH ANNUAL
PARTY FOR THE PLANET

A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT WITH LIVE MUSIC BY WE ARE STAR CHILDREN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 | IXART PARK | 5:30 - 8:00 PM
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An excellent and concise explanation of how to respond when people claim homelessness is due to substance use or mental illness
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 02/10/2026
It’s happening! IIRC, this was one approved before the new zoning code
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Rory Stolzenberg @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The site plan shows 96 units (76 one-bed, 20 two-bed, 11 affordable). You can see all the permit history here: permits.cvilledata.org/albemarle/?s...
Plan - Site Development Plan (AC) - Initial
Status
Approved
Project Name
Skyline Ridge Apartments
Assigned To
Ben Holt
Apply Date
06/07/2022
Expire Date
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Complete Date
07/19/2022
Approval Expire Date
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District
Jack Jouett
IVR Number
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Description
PROJECT: SDP202200039 Skyline Ridge Apartments – Initial Site Development Plan MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT: Jack Jouett TAX MAP/PARCEL: 06000-00-00-040C8 LOCATION: Colonnade Dr, approximately 1200 linear feet south of the intersection of Colonnade Drive and Ivy Road (Route 250) PROPOSAL: Development of 96 multi-family apartment units in a single building. ZONING: R15 Residential – 15 units/acre PROFFERS: No ENTRANCE CORRIDOR: No OVERLAY DISTRICT: Airport Impact Area, Steep Slope Overlay COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: (1) Urban Density Residential – residential (6.01-34 units/acre); supporting uses such as places of worship, schools, public and institutional uses, neighborhood scale commercial, office and service uses. (2) Parks and Green Systems – parks, playgrounds, play fields, greenways, trails, paths, recreational facilities and equipment, plazas, outdoor sitting areas, natural areas, preservation of stream buffers, floodplains and steep slopes adjacent to rivers and streams in Neighborhood 6 – Western Neighborhoods Master Plan.GENERAL PROJECT NOTES
OWNER/DEVELOPER:
ENGINEER:
TAX MAP:
ZONING:
TOTAL PROJECT AREA:
PROPOSED USE:
WP COLONNADES LLC
224 14TH NW
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22903
COLLINS ENGINEERING 200 GARRETT STREET, SUITE K CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22902
ТМР 06000-00-00-040С8 D.B.4546, PG. 61 4.96 ACRES
R15-(ZMA-2021-00012: APPROVED BY THE BOS ON JUNE 1ST, 2022), AND CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING: MANAGED AND PRESERVED STEEP SLOPES OVERLAY DISTRICT & AIRPORT IMPACT AREA OVERLAY DISTRICT. A SPECIAL EXCEPTION REQUEST (SE2022-39) WAS APPROVED ON 9/7/2022 TO WAIVE THE STEPBACK REQUIREMENT. THE PROJECT ALSO PROPOSES AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR A BONUS DENSITY INCREASE OF 30%. WITH THIS DENSITY INCREASE, 11 AFFORDABLE UNITS WILL BE PROVIDED ALONG WITH AN ADDITIONAL 11 MARKET RATE UNITS. 4.96 ACRES
96 MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT UNITS, INCLUDING 11 AFFORDABLE DWELLING UNITS
(76) PROPOSED 1-BEDROOM UNITS
(20) PROPOSED 2-BEDROOM UNITS
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Luke Rosenberger @lukethelibrarian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I regularly e-bike to Grounds now (Thanks, C'ville Ebike Voucher! Thanks, Wahoo Commute!) and it's so wonderful to actually *enjoy* my commute: hear birds, smell trees and flowers, breathe fresh air.
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Natalie Oschrin, Charlottesville City Council @nat4cville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Crossing 250 and 29 at stoplights are pretty much the only times I had to stop moving, otherwise I never feel like I’m “stuck in traffic,” like many of the drivers I see.
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Natalie Oschrin, Charlottesville City Council @nat4cville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I biked to an appointment on Pantops this morning and then to work up 29! I can do all of that mostly on quieter roads, the Butterfly Greenway, unprotected bike lanes, and then some sidewalk & parking lot riding in the county. 🚲
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing I’m going do is bike to the Food Lion on 5th Street rather than drive.
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Guinevere Higgins @guineverehh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm starting by fixing the flat on my e-bike 😆
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Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So far so good. I biked to IY and Martin Hardware this morning. (Have to go to Harrisonburg this weekend with the family, I don't see any way to avoid a car trip there.)
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 01/10/2026
Cville residents — get a free tree! www.charlottesville.gov/m/newsflash/...
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Charlottesville Utilities is Offering Free Trees to City Residents
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOctober 1, 2026Charlottesville Utilities is Offering Free Trees to City ResidentsCHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – The Charlottesville Department of Utilities is excited to announc
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#WeekWithoutDriving is here! If you’re a driver, make an effort over the next week to travel in Charlottesville without driving at least once. Share with us what that experience was like! And imagine what we can do to make our community more accessible for all. livablecville.org/weekwithoutd...
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Week Without Driving — Livable Cville
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All the resources you need for the Charlottesville #WeekWithoutDriving
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 30/09/2026
It's almost here! Thursday, October 1 marks the start of Week Without Driving. > What’s your plan to drive less often this week? > What’s the hardest thing about replacing driving a car with another option? > Which new experiences are you most anticipating?
Week without Driving Charlottesville Area October 1 to October 8, 2026
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WeekWithoutDriving starts tomorrow! If you’re a driver, we hope you’ll spend time this week trying to experience the Charlottesville area transportation system from the perspective of those who cannot drive. We want freedom of movement for everyone in Charlottesville.
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America Walks @americawalks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This year's #WeekWithoutDriving is October 1–8, 2026! Learn how you and your network can participate... ⤵️ Join the next national coalition meeting leading up to the Week TOMORROW (9/30) at 2:00 p.m. ET ➡️ buff.ly/4SjiO0O And sign up for WWD ➡️ buff.ly/Ri2Mx5p
week without driving is about access, graphics of people using transport
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We love to see it!
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you’re interested in seeing how much of Charlottesville consists of surface parking lots, check out the map from the city’s GIS site (blue=surface parking). This doesn’t include street parking, parking garages, and driveways. We have so much parking! opendata.charlottesville.org/datasets/cha...
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Vehicle Parking Area
Mapped parking areas within the City of Charlottesville.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Week Without Driving starts on Thursday! We hope you’ll consider joining us as we think about and work towards making Charlottesville a better place for all the community members who cannot drive.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Far too few communities think strategically about how public spaces can attract and retain young people’s interest.” www.planning.org/planning/202...
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Beyond the Ban: Designing the Third Spaces Teens Need
Reducing technology use is widely seen as beneficial, but it may not be enough. What if we offered an alternative?
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We would love to see way more people in Charlottesville commuting on e-bikes! But the bike infrastructure isn’t there yet. Hopefully it will be sooner than later.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a great weekend to get outside! And two awesome events are happening if you want to move around in the company of like minded people: the Cville Pride 5K on Saturday and Loop De’Ville on Sunday.
CVILLE PRIDE 5K
Avenue
SEPTEMBER 26 1 8 A.M.
STARTING AT FIREFLY SIGN UP NOW!LOOP DE'VILLE
NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY
RIVANNA RIVER CO.
SEP 27, 2026
LOOPDEVILLE.ORG <
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 24/09/2026
Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you couldn't drive a car? #WeekWithoutDriving #Cville is an opportunity to turn idle curiosity into action. It's not about a total abstinence from driving, but about taking some tangible steps to experience alternatives to driving.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The 2026 Week Without Driving is October 1-8. We encourage you to participate in this effort to move towards a transportation system that works for everyone, not just drivers. You can learn more about the Charlottesville area #WeekWithoutDriving here: livablecville.org/weekwithoutd...
WEEK WITHOUT DRIVING

Week Without Driving: October 1-8, 2026
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 23/09/2026
👋🏽 Do you know what starts one week from tomorrow? That's right, it's the 2026 #WeekWithoutDriving #Cville experience. Click through for info to help you prepare
Week Without Driving: October 1-8, 2026
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Charlottesville’s investment in affordable housing is paying off in big ways! Still a long way to go, but it’s exciting to see the progress being made. c-ville.com/charlottesvi...
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Charlottesville on track to meet spending goal for subsidized housing - C-VILLE Weekly
In March 2021, Charlottesville City Council adopted a plan that made a moral commitment to invest $100 million in affordable housing initiatives through the end of 2032. The elected body got a progres...
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The next time you hear someone say “we are building too much in Charlottesville and Albemarle,” sharing this information might be helpful. We definitely have not built enough if we are second worst in the country in terms of one measure of commuting rates.
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 20/09/2026
Quality of life improves greatly for people when people can afford to live as close as they'd like to their job, shopping, recreation, schools, and other amenities
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Josh Krahn @joshkrahn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Allow. Housing. Near. Jobs.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 20/09/2026
Tonight my 7yo and their best friend decided to write a book together while we rode to pick up dinner from a nearby restaurant. The magic of front loader cargo bikes. ✨
Two kids sit in a bunch cargo trike working on a book
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Significant government funding of income restricted housing + lots of market rate housing = much healthier and accessible housing market
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Barbara Samuels @bsamuels72.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“We can upzone to produce high-end housing for free & this indirectly improves low-end affordability by starting vacancy chains and preventing demand cascades. And use tax revenue to directly fund low-end social housing. If you care about housing affordability, the natural strategy is to “do both”
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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 18/09/2026
👇🏽🏢🏘️🏠🏡
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“affordable housing policy should promote both market-rate and subsidized housing, instead of treating them as solutions to unrelated problems.” www.buildingabundance.ca/p/housing-la...
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Housing ladder spillovers
Rich newcomers can raise low-end rents, and adding high-end homes can lower them
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Stop by the Corner today and see what happens when we replace parking with public spaces. Much thanks to the UVA Student Planning Association for helping us imagine a better city!
PARK(ING) DAY 2026
SPA
Friday, Sept. 18 9am-4pm
FREE Bodo's
What is Park(ing) Day?

Park(ing) Day is an annual global event where people transform parking spaces into temporary public parks and community spaces. It raises awareness about the importance of accessible public and green spaces in cities around the world.
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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We need these in Charlottesville ASAP. Public restrooms are an essential part of broadly accessible, pleasant, and vibrant public spaces.
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