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Woolen Mills Road

Growth is not development; development means improvement of the public welfare and quality of life. Growth may sometimes constitute development. Sometimes it is anti-development. We’ll have fewer public eruptions and conflicts if our public officials understand the difference.–Rich Collins

Woolen Mills Road

cag0908-1611-wmrd-c1698 — view from the Maddex House

ground dust

The properties here, in the land use plan, grey is manufacturing, the yellow is single family residential. So as you can see very clearly from this map there is a fine line between, a very hard line between industrial and residential. Not something that is typical in a land use plan or in a zoning ordinance.—7/13/06

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Woolen Mills Road

6/10ths of a mile from downtown Charlottesville.
Climate classification. Humid subtropical climates (Cfa, Cwa): These climates usually occur in the interiors of continents, or on their east coasts, mainly in the high 20s and 30s latitude (although they may occur as far north as 46°N in Europe). Unlike the Mediterranean climates, the summers are humid due to unstable tropical air masses, or onshore Trade Winds.–Wikipedia

iso water

thunderstorm

sycamore leaning with the wind — We had a storm yesterday afternoon, cold air falling six miles down out of a cumulonimbus, making for a straight line Dorothy Gale experience. Busted many trees. These trees lean with the wind.

ht ferron, night — here in the hinterland we run our utilities in the air. It is the cheapest way. Akin to keeping our inventory of used motor parts in the front yard. After a wind, some trees fall on electric lines. The solution? Cut down the trees? We are cheap. If we could run the sewer lines in the air we would...

utilities

cjn1025-mcello-mtn-n6589 — Blessed darkness. Night at night. Nary a streetlight in my part of town. Power lines down. The rise in the distance, Monticello. View from Sunrise Trailer Park.

for sale

east belmont-carlton, HT Ferron ready mix at night — 5+ acres, zoned M-1 (almost anything goes). Next to a residential neighborhood.
Rob Stockhausen, CCIM, CBRE Realty, 434-531-4004.
Since 1937 this has been the H.T. Ferron ready-mix plant.
8/10 of a mile from the Charlottesville Pavilion.
Mix some concrete, then go listen to Jimmy Cliff.

Charlottesville Pavilion

north slope of the James River

workers ahead making beautiful stuff. Suburbs of Richmond, Virginia

Put together an iMovie, apologies for the color… Close encounters with four motor vehicles today.

Guitar by Jim Orr
Video with 1st generation Flip.
Voices:
Bill Emory (photographer)
Angela Tucker (Charlottesville Development Services Manager)
Dr. David Brown (Mayor of CHO May 21, 2007 when recording was made)
Kevin Lynch (Councilor)
Craig Brown (City Attorney)
Dave Norris (Councilor)