Potentially, if Biscuit Run and North Pointe are built out. Charlottesville Tomorrow has an excellent round-up of last night’s sessions.The DP has a good summary here…. North Pointe as that:Approximately 10 percent of North Pointe’s housing would be designated affordable, which means each unit must cost no more than $190,000. There would also be “not a lot of†workforce housing costing around $238,000, Chuck Rotgin of Great Eastern said.I’ll believe it when I see it.The WP has an interesting article on affordable housing efforts in Prince William County, and the seemingly disingenuous efforts to roadblock those efforts.But Supervisor Maureen S. Caddigan (R-Dumfries) said she was not ready to endorse the project in part because it could be broadened to include low-income residents. Also, she said, most of the units would be built in her eastern Prince William district, an area that she said lacks schools and other services to accommodate additional housing….Caddigan also questioned the motive of the group, saying that Greater Prince William Community Development Center was trying to latch on to workforce housing as a way to win public funds for low- and moderate-income housing.”Workforce housing is what we bought into, but now, it’s faith-based,” she said.Under the proposal, county workers would get the first chance to buy or rent units. “The idea is to give the teachers, the firefighters, the public safety employees first crack at this housing,” said Regina Perrin, chief executive of MeetingHouse Corp., a nonprofit group that has worked on creating the development center with Prince William area churches. “If the county doesn’t fund us, we can’t guarantee that.”Those bastards.
Date Archives March 2006
A brand new WINA.com!
Nice. Very nice. One of the best news sources in the area just got a new website. Check it out.
Affordability efforts in action
The WP has an interesting article on affordable housing efforts in Prince William County, and the seemingly disingenuous efforts to roadblock those efforts.But Supervisor Maureen S. Caddigan (R-Dumfries) said she was not ready to endorse the project in part because it could be broadened to include low-income residents. Also, she said, most of the units would be built in her eastern Prince William district, an area that she said lacks schools and other services to accommodate additional housing….Caddigan also questioned the motive of the group, saying that Greater Prince William Community Development Center was trying to latch on to workforce housing as a way to win public funds for low- and moderate-income housing.”Workforce housing is what we bought into, but now, it’s faith-based,” she said.Under the proposal, county workers would get the first chance to buy or rent units. “The idea is to give the teachers, the firefighters, the public safety employees first crack at this housing,” said Regina Perrin, chief executive of MeetingHouse Corp., a nonprofit group that has worked on creating the development center with Prince William area churches. “If the county doesn’t fund us, we can’t guarantee that.”Those bastards. Trying to provide housing for service workers. Where will they stop?
Albemarle County BoS goes RSS?
An alert reader just tipped me to this -Subscribe to the Board of Supervisors’ RSS Feed for Board MeetingsRSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a convenient way to keep up with the County of Albemarle Board meetings. Once you subscribe to the Board’s RSS feed, this information will be delivered to your computer’s desktop automatically. You will be able to download an audio file (in .mp3 format) to your hard drive or audio device for listening at your convenience.Say it with me – “Whoo-hooo!” (for those of us who are government geeks). It’s labeled TEST TEST TEST, but …
Regulation, housing prices, affordability …
Whew. One of the best parts of the New York Times’ real estate magazine is online. When reading a long story online, a great annoyance is clicking through to the next page (in this case, seven!) of the article. The whizzes at the NYT heard my silent groans and installed a nice feature. In addition to the “printer friendly” option, they have a “single page” option. So simple, and so appreciated. Thank you.
Albemarle Place update & podcast
Charlottesville Tomorrow has a podcast of Dennis Rooker’s appearance on WINA’s Charlottesville Live morning program. I hope that there is enough traffic and comments to encourage WINA to podcast their shows, both their morning show and their new afternoon show with Coy Barefoot. I expect that the afternoon show is probably very good, but I have not been able to listen yet.
A sure-fire way to marginalize open discourse on blogs
Courtesy of NJ Assemblyman Peter Biondi:2. The operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider shall establish, maintain and enforce a policy to require any information content provider who posts written messages on a public forum website either to be identified by a legal name and address, or to register a legal name and address with the operator of the interactive computer service or the Internet service provider through which the information content provider gains access to the interactive computer service or Internet, as appropriate.So I would have to maintain this information and turn it over to the government when requested? I am no legal scholar, and don’t even play one on TV, but this strikes me as someone waaay overstepping the boundaries of government’s purposes. I would hope that Virginia would never even consider legislation like this.