This “Best Place to Live” may increase its urban water supply NOT with mountain runoff from the Shenandoah National Park, not from the fields and forests of northwest Albemarle, not from stewardship of our watershed, but from the James River. Recently, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) assured the County Board of Supervisors that while the James River was a “different quality” of water…
Nelson’s planning process
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April Forum Watch is out
Neil Williamson with the Free Enterprise Forum has sent out the April Forum Watch…. This is a great way to stay on top of local issues (and act like you’re informed!) Neil Williamson with the Free Enterprise Forum has sent out the April Forum Watch…. This is a great way to stay on top of local issues (and act like you’re informed!)
The road to hell is paved with city dollars – Why does Virginia make cities pay for suburban sprawl?
Each year Charlottesville pays about $13.5 million in gasoline and sales taxes earmarked for transportation funding, but we only get back $6.7 million for maintenance, new projects and transit funding. …It pays about $26.6 million in taxes earmarked for transportation, while Albemarle gets back a measly $7 million, more or less, for new roads.
Home prices are up
I will be posting the Central Va numbers soon; in the meantime -Existing-home prices were up 11 percent in February compared with February 2004, and existing-home sales were up 6.1 percent from the same month a year ago, the National Association of Realtors reported today. The median condo price was $210,700 in February 2005, up 20.5 percent from the same month a year ago. (From...
Interesting Washington Post article
The reality of what’s for sale at any time has always forced buyers to accept, in order to get. But in today’s frenzied atmosphere, the pressure to compromise may have reached new levels. Buyers must adjust their expectations quickly — on price, location, condition, style, size and a host of other seeming must-haves — or forget it. …”You compromise and compromise and compromise and then…
Unmarried couples buying homes together
The number of unmarried buyers in the U.S. has risen to 8% in 2003 from 5% in 1993, the National Association of Realtors reports. The category includes groups of at least two buyers who may be significant others, friends or relatives…. But buying property together can bring problems into a relationship, and such couples don’t always live happily ever after, say therapists and singles themselves….