Charlottesville Tomorrow reports:
The University of Virginia Foundation has been given the greenlight to expand its research park on Fontaine Avenue.
Keeping this growth in the urban ring qualifies as a “good thing.”
To get a feel for where UVA’s growth is going, spend some time perusing their 2008 Grounds Plan (archived: 2013).
The best sentence in the Charlottesville Tomorrow story succinctly pinpoints why the Charlottesville-Albemarle region chooses not to build roads. They only have clues to guide them.
The most recent rezoning does not answer conclusively the future of the proposed Sunset-Fontaine Connector but does offer clues to how parts of it might be funded.
Why have conclusions when it’s more fun to follow clues?
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