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Posts Published by Jim Duncan
April 2018 Note | Kindness Matters
Archives of my subscription-only monthly notes. The blog is more searchable. Interested in not waiting a few months to read it? Learn more here. For these posts, I don’t do much formatting/changing as I’m more concerned…
RealPodVA – Charlottesville Real Estate Podcasts
13 years ago, I experimented with podcasts. Time to revisit the concept. Here’s the new podcast. With some awesome friends, we’re launching the start of what we aim to be twice-monthly podcasts, talking about the Charlottesville real…
Charlottesville Land Use – A Brief History
Jim’s preface: Affordable housing in Charlottesville + Albemarle (and America) is at, or nearing, crisis stage. I love this post because I learned a lot from it. I hope you do, too. The housing crisis isn’t just…
Big AirBnB Changes Coming to Albemarle County?
Alison Wrabel at the DP reports: After three work sessions, the Planning Commission on Tuesday recommended to allow whole-house rental, where no owner is present, only in the rural area and for no more than…
How Exactly Does Local Government Work?
tl;dr – we’re going to try to learn about local government. If anyone wants to help plan and organize, please contact me. 434-242-7140 How exactly does local government work? (few people know) A few weeks…
Charlottesville Garage, Construction, West Main, Streetscape
These are a few Charlottesville development stories on my radar that I will be referencing for the next few days and weeks in conversations with clients: Talks resume in downtown garage dispute “Neither side appears…