I read a lot of news every day, more than may be healthy, it seems sometimes. Regardless, here are a few of what I was reading today.
PROPONENTS OF limitless growth in Loudoun County keep inventing new ways to railroad their designs into law. (WashingtonPost)
The similarities between Loudon and Central Va are frightening sometimes.
Study it again (archived: 2005)!
The Albemarle supervisors will join Charlottesville in sharing the cost of a road study. … prior studies show 40% of the Pantops traffic coming into and leaving Charlottesville uses East High Street.
Well, golly, that makes sense … and the City and County are going to split the costs 50-50? A true partnership in the making.
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