Says Bryan McKenzie today. *another Daily Progress broken link
There are some serious concerns our community needs to address and not just with another study and another consultant but with real, shirt-sleeves up, kick butt and take down names attitude.
Meadowcreek Parkway
Eastern Connector
Water.
These affect all residents of Central Virginia. Not just the City. Not just the County. Not just University of Virginia. The entire Central Virginia region.
Outstanding discussion on the 3-3 vote against the rural preservation measures in Albemarle.
That’s enough of my shilling for Charlottesville Tomorrow. If we don’t work together as a community and a region, we might not like where we live in thirty years. Charlottesville is and has been a great place to live. Study after study after study has proven that. We need to move beyond politics and interminable studies and move forward. Somehow.
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Virginia Postrel has a quite interesting article in the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly on how trends in land use planning, and the associated movement in real estate prices, are creating cultural self-segregation across regions.
The focus of the article is national, but the actions of individual municipal and state government planning commissions build these national trends, so I think it’s quite relevant to take this into account when we consider our local plans. It’s not only what kind of infrastructure and buildings we will build; it’s what kind of cost structure this will create, and thus what kind of population this future region will attract.
Josh –
Thanks so much for the comment and the link. That’s a great article. I finally got to read the article this evening and will try to have a post on it this week.