Get out your best Magic 8 Ball – He also observed the largest wave of Generation Y home purchasing begins in 2012, after experts think the housing market will have turned around. Although what qualifies as an “urban core area” may vary widely to different people, it seems a safe bet to expect considerable variety in tastes in the housing market.
Posts tagged Politics
A lifestyle shift – riding a bike
While biking certainly isn’t feasible for all of my trips – showing property for example – my new bikedoes allow me to cut down on a few miles almost every day – and that’s not too bad. …
Transportation Town Hall on Monday
If you would like more bike lanes or rail service or other transportation concerncs, take the time to tell some of the people whose voices matter (not that ours don’t – they just have bigger and better targeted microphones). Town meeting on transportation with Delegate David Toscano and Senator Creigh Deeds Monday, June 16 at 7 PM Albemarle County Office Building – Room A.
Albemarle County might minimize transparent government
In what’s being billed as an efficiency move, the six member governing body will consider changing the record of board meetings from “near-verbatim†to “summary†style minutes at its Wednesday night meeting. … “Podcasting is where you would go for detail,†Catlin said, adding that the number of podcast listeners has significantly increased since the county began posting the podcasts in December 2006.
Government’s not going to do it – so why not Google?
What if Google, in addition to driving times, added a “biking” or “estimated walking” time, and highlighted appropriate bike routes? … With gas prices going up faster than we can keep track , what would it take for the Charlottesville region to duplicate some of these lifestyle decisions ?
Could this be part of the future of transportation?
Just wondering if this could work in the Charlottesville/Central Virginia area. I still think that an implementation of this type of system is among the best I’ve seen .
Anyone in the Charlottesville media want to localize this story?
The legislation called for the creation of Urban Development Areas that would steer growth in fast-growth counties into districts where jurisdictions were prepared to concentrate their investments in roads and infrastructure — and allowed localities to assess impact fees to help pay for it. … … One of the reasons that General Assembly Republicans are adverse to new taxes is that HB 3202 significantly has already increased the ability of local governments to raise funds through impact fees.