city litter
Category: Charlottesville
Lumbersexual?
Sandy Hausman at WVTF covers ever evolving male trends, lumbersexual.
canopy street
In 1975, under the leadership of Charlottesville Parks and Recreation director, Gene German,
George Briggs and Clare Byrd developed “Guidelines For A Street Tree Planting Master Program For Charlottesville Virginia”.
“Our peace of mind, our emotions, our spirit-
even our souls– are conditioned by what our eyes see.
There is a feeling abroad in this land today that ugliness
has been allowed too long, that it is time to say
‘Enough,’ and to act.”- Mrs. Lyndon Johnson
Opening remarks to a conference on Natural
Beauty called by President Johnson in the White House
(from the preamble to the plan,page vii)
Midterm election
Politics, Charlottesville style.
Clear Width
The sidewalk on the east side of Meade Avenue is a five foot sidewalk but there are 19 obstructions to users of
that sidewalk between Meade Park and Meade Avenue’s intersection with High Street.
The sidewalk’s minimum width is 29”. The average obstructed width is 39”.
Sad Town
People still looking for Hannah Graham. No joy in CHO.
TV News
Charlottesville has lots of visitors in town bearing these things. How often does it happen?
Good journalism making its way through a lens?
walkable city
The strip and curb, side of road = sidewalk. Is there a City official who has walked this thing?
Charlottesville Downtown Mall
above the fray
UVA students and parents are swarming the main grounds of UVA. A mile west, on top of Observatory Hill (aka Mount Jefferson?), nothing going on.
This is a timeless spot, a little bit shabby. No one is delegated to paint roses here. Leander McCormick Observatory