Chicken or the egg?
One of the perennial, if not daily, questions concerning development - build first and then develop needed infrastructure, or build the infrastructure in anticipation of future, even impending, development? Old Trail was sent for approval this evening from the Albemarle County Planning Commission (pdf). At…
Morning thought
Do people not walk or bike places because the infrastructure is not there or do they not build the infrastructure because folks don't want to walk or bike places? What impact will gas prices have on development in the short- and long-term? I would love…
Condos in Charlottesville
Good article in the DP this morning about the vast number of condos in the area (if you want more information on these, please email me, rather than the Sellers' agents!) Read the whole article, but take note of what Ted Koebel, director of the…
Afternoon links
Read a lot of news. You never know which side of the aisle it is written from. Instapundit speaks to this issue today and references this WSJ article. The economy is a fickle thing, driven largely by the Fed's policies, etc. but psychology plays and…
Goody.
We're Number One (again). Homes are not cheap (median home price $225,000), but the cost of living is manageable. The city's low unemployment rate and significant recent job growth promise continued prosperity. As more and more people learn about this year's best city, Charlottesville may…
Urban Flight
The Road to Ruin is now almost a required daily reading for me. This post titled "The Fear Factor in America's Growing Exurbs," highlights this, citing a NYTimes article. The growth that we are seeing is not isolated to the Central Virginia region; it may…
NIMBYs unite.
How prevalent is this opinion? From a letter to the editor in today's C-Ville - This letter is to the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority [“So simple, it just might work,” The Week, August 2]. I could have saved the $1.1 million you paid to…
The Parkway is coming
From today's Progress - Remember that debate over whether or not the Meadowcreek Parkway needs an interchange to work? ... An at-grade intersection was a much cheaper design that would have allowed construction on the parkway, under discussion for 38 years, to begin sooner. Read…
Building Green
If building green were as immediately equal economically as traditional building, we would probably see more of it from the larger local builders. It is sadly always about money. WINA Thomas Jefferson Planning District's Green Sourcebook TimesDispatch "The premium wasn't that much and I bet…