March 1 City Council endorsed the affordable housing plan, the lead piece of the three part Cville Plans Together effort. The three easy pieces, the housing plan, a rewritten “Comprehensive” plan and a rewritten zoning ordinance. Who will make the money from this effort? Who will loose?The 4.86 acre H.T.Ferron plant, once zoned for manufacturing, is now zoned for PUD. No one agrees what PUD is. That is what is so wonderful about PUD. You see what you want to see. Possibly we’ll rezone the entire city PUD?
There are things to be said for indoor plumbing.Snow fall last night.This dog’s idea of heaven on earth, walking in the mud and water looking for food.Four hundred years ago a long leaf pine (pinus palustris) forest stretched from here to Texas.
Jackie, the Gadsden County Times front office manager, would shriek when my lab-mix, Line, looked her in the eye. “Get that yellow-eyed dog to quit looking at me.” Jackie would not enjoy Eva’s gaze…
It struck me this morning that the park I walk through owes much of its existence to successive technologies. The streetcar technology (smokestack above) has been abandoned. The other technologies that undergird this public space are sewage collection and high voltage electrical transmission.Rivanna trail, winter weather.Geology and topography have graced the park with a river. So far, in our political wisdom, we have discouraged building in the river’s channel.The industrial and the natural features maintain an uneasy balance, remarkably it feels like a park.
