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Crozet could really benefit from serious bike/ped infrastructure connecting the neighborhoods around the park to Western Albemarle. but that need is a product of the choice to "preserve the entrance corridor" near 64.

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seems nutty to me that Western Albemarle and Albemarle high schools are not located in development areas; just seems like a land use decision that is guaranteed to produce lots of car traffic

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ahhhh i see, i was wondering if it was a CAC boundaries thing. weird!

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/09/2026

"is Albemarle High School located in the development area," the greatest thread in the history of albemarle county, locked by a moderator after 12239 pages of heated debate,

a map of the Places29 south development area boundary, showing a big bubble enclosing Albemarle High School

totally insane screenshot of the places29 south development area boundary, showing a hard red line at the top of the image, leaving the high school in the rural area

screenshot from albemarle GIS showing Albemarle High school as "comp plan area: Rural Area 1"

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The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984

the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto
PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEMS & the
RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS !
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD . You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS
you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE
because it is INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN !
Art wakes up sleepers !
ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPDITY !
ART SINGS HALLELUJA!
ART IS FOR KITCHENS!
ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD!
Art is like green trees!
Art is like white clouds in blue sky!
ART IS CHEAP!
HURRAH!
Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Sally Duncan @sallyforsupervisor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BOS and SB need to be paid more; BOS should be paid a full-time wage and be a full-time job.

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Nathan Alderman @nathanalderman.com · 23/09/2026

Happy @cvilleweekly.bsky.social day to all who celebrate! This week, our cover belongs to former at-large Albemarle school board member Allison Spillman, who cut short her first term and resigned last month. I wanted to know why -- so I asked her. c-ville.com/the-former-s...

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The former school board member wanted to serve her community—then the death threats started - C-VILLE Weekly

By the time she made her final address as the at-large member of the Albemarle County School Board, Allison Spillman’s self-appointed enemies had been celebrating for more than a week. “GOOD RIDDANCE...

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Sally Duncan @sallyforsupervisor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m about to add this to my housing spiel before I vote for projects

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Sally Duncan @sallyforsupervisor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can we PLEASE get this plastered across billboards and newspaper headlines and on people’s foreheads? 😭

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V. I. Lenin @livinglenin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can people obviously incapable of taking serious problems seriously, themselves be taken seriously? It is difficult to do so, comrades, very difficult!

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"Michael Monaco" @mmonaco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

for instance, me, a normal guy, the world I envision has epic-level spells again, because Mystra stopped being a killjoy about it

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"Michael Monaco" @mmonaco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

on so many topics, so many peoples' imaginations are limited to "the status quo, but it doesn't feel bad." when we sing "we can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old" some of us really mean it and some of us think the fire will be small

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/09/2026

Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)

What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.

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Genuinely will never forget watching this when it aired. You feel like Moses coming down the mountain, face radiant from the burning bush.

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IDK about Cory Farms but the June 14, 2006 hearing for Liberty Hall (almost exactly 20 years ago!) has some real gems

Mr. Tony Vasinonti addressed the Board, stating he was dismayed to find this developer is going
to be dropping a section right behind his house. He said he owns the house right next to the new homes
proposed next to his fence line, stating that there is a nice line of trees there. He said the connector road
planned goes right across his property and two other people’s property. He does not see how a road
could be put in there, and he sees a lot of patchwork proposals. He thinks that putting two traffic lights
close together on Route 250 would cause the type of traffic congestion the County is trying to avoid, and
his house is down to where the other houses are going to be built – causing drainage and silt problems.
He is going to have another neighborhood dropped right behind him, and there are no other developments
like that in the area. He just does not see how the Board could rezone this property the way they would
like it done. It just does not look workable to him. It’s not in character with anything in the area.

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Would ya look at that. bsky.app/profile/cren...

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Kathryn @kathrynlaughon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

for my part, i find my neighbors just as beautiful as the mountains. beauty isn't defined by the absence of human beings. bsky.app/profile/cren...

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I’ve given to this! Help if you can. It’s rough out there, we keep us safe.

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I wish NBC29 would link the source here, esp. because there's even more to this: the 29 article is about the City, but if you expand it to the Cville metro area, we're down 6.5% year-over-year! it's a little hard to see on this map but we're unusual! www.apartmentlist.com/research/nat...

line graph showing year-over-year rent growth for the Charlottesville metro area, from Apartment List data; latest August-to-August year over year change was negative six point five percent!

year over year rent change choropleth map of the united states. a little hard to see in detail, but charlottesville is a dot of dark blue, where darker blue indicates a drop in rent. other metro areas are colored pink and red, where darker red indicates an increase in rent. Virginia beach is very red.

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It took another decade+ before my neighborhood actually broke ground, in part because site planning & engineering took forever. And yet today I have a house I love and neighbors I love and I get to live in Crozet.

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I went back to read the BOS minutes from when my neighborhood was approved. I would ask that the board today take the same approach as the board 20 years ago: acknowledge there may be hurdles to figure out during site planning, but approve the rezoning & leave the engineering to the engineers.

Mr. Rooker said that he thinks it is a good plan that provides an alternative form of housing that has worked elsewhere. He added that the stormwater issues could be worked out at the site plan level, and encouraged staff to work with the applicant on some of the alternative means that have been worked on elsewhere even though the proffers can’t be changed at this point. Mr. Rooker encouraged the applicant to continue working with staff to do more than the minimum. Ms. Thomas stated that in her district she had something not exactly called co-housing, that fell apart, and she is leery of what is being set up, especially so close to Beaver Creek. She emphasized that while the applicant has agreed to work out the stormwater measures, there is no guarantee of that. Mr. Rooker responded that stormwater is usually worked out at the site plan level. Ms. Thomas stated it is in a delicate location for this density. Mr. Boyd commented that he is on the fence about this, citing his concerns about the stormwater management and stating that the Board would direct staff to work with the applicant on it. Mr. W yant said that he is not against co-housing, as it provides variety, but he believes the difficulty will be coming up with a road maintenance agreement, given the need for easements. He emphasized that the applicant has some major hurdles to overcome in the site plan approval. Motion was then offered by Mr. W yant, to approve ZMA-2007-012, as proffered dated November 14, 2007 and application plan dated October 19, 2007 which reflects waiver of building separation requirements of Section 19.8. Mr. Slutzky seconded the motion. Roll was called, and the motion carried by the following recorded vote: AYES: Mr. W yant, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Dorrier, Mr. Rooker, and Mr. Slutzky. NAYS: Ms. Thomas.

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm not going to be able to be there in-person tonight; if you are, I owe you a large order of totchos from Firefly and/or a cold one. The county has promised to build housing on this site for 20+ years. Don't let them renege now.

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oh hey look, measurable positive results from a concrete theory of change backed by effective activism. neat

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