👀 Someone's installing a portable padel court in the parking lot behind a building on West Main.

Good take here on Family Friendly Housing by @ad-mastro.bsky.social www.thedeletedscenes.com/p/is-yimbyis...

Consultants contracted by Minnesota found that an eight-story single-stair building with 6,000 sq. ft. per floor (building 4) has dramatically lower fire risk than a same-height code-compliant two-stair building with a larger floor plate (building 1) www.dli.mn.gov/sites/defaul...

These are such extraordinarily blatant bait it's actually remarkable. Here's one from Charlottesville Nextdoor, with the post that "inspired" it:

‘Tis the season

Once again on a 7 bus with as many passengers as seats wondering why the CAT director thinks it's not important to improve frequencies on this route to pre-covid levels.

this was @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social's final meeting as a planning commissioner. appropriately, it was a work session on the capital improvement program, an important thing that hardly anybody pays attention to.

If every service launch vastly exceeds ridership projections, that's a sign your ridership projections are broken.

That's right.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Bafflingly poor decision to only release these alignment options of a regionally important project to attendees of a physical meeting in Crozet on a Thursday evening. How are people supposed to know if they want to attend the meeting to provide feedback if they can't see what's being proposed?

Charlottesville's sister city BAR shenanigans news:

Good news: New data suggest that Portland's inclusionary zoning program is finally working as intended, after being fully funded in 2024 www.sightline.org/2025/11/25/p...

Amtrak really needs to get a handle on its wildly inconsistent and arbitrary policy enforcement. Below, station attendants refused to let a passenger board 11 minutes before departure in Charlotte this morning 👇

"The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it. No science. No public health data. Just numbers written into a chart decades ago with the sole goal of preserving the status quo."

"Against Change" on the community meeting sticky note board is a little on the nose.

It brings me no joy to share another transportation survey. But if we want a high quality and fair transportation system that provides accessibility to everyone, we have to fill these damn things out.

If we build more housing in Charlottesville - even housing that isn’t specifically designed for larger families - more families with kids will be able to live here. We believe this is a good thing!

love standard time and also dominion energy, it's so cool to commute on a scooter in the dark with every other streetlight dead

It is illegal to bring artwork, plants, or silverware onto an Amtrak train. www.amtrak.com/prohibited-i...

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects. US transport spending increased by 30%, but: —Funding for non-highway projects flatlined —Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure

Welcome to the club, Alexandria!

This article is horrifying. But on the bright side, this series from APM led to a wholesale rethinking of reading curricula in both Charlottesville and Albemarle school divisions in 2020: dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...

I think this is true (hopefully it's not) but if Charlottesville had set a goal last December of increasing the city's protected bike lanes by at least 1 foot in 2025, they would not be on track to meet that goal.

Boarding in Moynihan for the first time in ages and... what happened to all the screens? Looking rough.

Really interesting analysis from @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about how building housing, in general, benefits the ability of families to live in a city. pencillingout.substack.com/p/chicagos-d...

he's running

honestly wild that coyner in a harris+6 district thought it was a good idea to insert herself in the middle of a statewide race on the side of letting jackbooted thugs run rampant across the commonwealth. rip bozo

folks,,, get ready to pass some vanvalkenburg housing bills

that’s my flag 🫡

went over to the other site for the first time in ages to check the local registrar's turnout charts and what the fuck is going on over there man

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

One misconception about IZ is that the market-rate homes in an IZ building cross-subsidize the non-market homes. But this isn't how tax incidence works. Developers cannot set above-market rents, because renters would simply find cheaper rents elsewhere. 1/

THE FOUNDATION FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC

lol new anonymized landed gentry political front just dropped

NIMBYing green energy infrastructure is quickly going to become (already is?) the main climate policy fight. Almost all the fossil fuel infrastructure that has ever been built already exists, so they and their Republican allies can just keep throwing up barriers and stand to profit.

oops

Congratulations to Congressman @mike-pruitt.bsky.social (R-Blacksburg)

ICC committee votes to ban the types of apartments the IBC forces developers to build. Soon the IBC will reach its final intended form and outlaw apartments entirely!

Fun fact: the "purpose" section of the IRC includes "affordability," while the same for the IBC does not!

Signs of life at the long-stalled K-Mart shopping center refresh project:

There's a regionwide (multistate?) PBR outage projected to last for at least another month and not a single broke journalist has gotten to the bottom of it. What kind of society do we even live in anymore?

This is very sad news. Eugene was a Charlottesville icon. Civil rights organizer. (He led he fight to desegregate the schools.) Affordable-housing innovator. Exceedingly generous to all with his time and, to the poor, his money. Successful businessman. A kind, loving man. We'll miss him terribly.

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Very important to keep the door closed to the half bathroom if you have a squatting WC and small pets.

Wow. The agenda is up for the 10/20 Council meeting... and it includes a settlement agreement in the White v. Charlottesville case. The city will prepare a Traffic Impact Statement by the process in 24VAC30-155. In exchange, the plaintiffs will drop the case against the new zoning ordinance.

👀 The Flats just changed hands. New owner appears to be Inland Real Estate Group out of Illinois. $489k/unit or 180k/bed. inlandgroup.com/about-inland

Incredible content.

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

I've liked this idea since the first time I saw it: nacto.org/latest/stree...