{"id":13723,"date":"2023-11-07T15:56:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=13723"},"modified":"2023-11-07T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T20:56:17","slug":"circus-grounds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/circus-grounds-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Circus grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s old is new again<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_13724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13724\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/231106-Cityman-Sam-Sanders.jpg\" alt=\"City Manager Sam Sanders\" width=\"1028\" height=\"588\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/231106-Cityman-Sam-Sanders.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/231106-Cityman-Sam-Sanders-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/231106-Cityman-Sam-Sanders-1024x586.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/231106-Cityman-Sam-Sanders-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2008 September, Planning Commission identifies the Rivanna as a work plan item for 2009<br \/>Identify strategies to maximize the presence and value of the Rivanna River in the life of the City of Charlottesville<br \/>1\/27\/2009    Staff presents Rivanna River Corridor Plan Project Outline<br \/>Rivanna River Corridor-Charlottesville<br \/>Issue: The 3.7 mile River Corridor is an under-realized resource for the City of Charlottesville. &#8220;Identify strategies to maximize the presence and value of the Rivanna River in the life of the City.&#8221;<br \/>Outcome: River Corridor District defined for the City. Various components ready for inclusion with 2013 Comprehensive Plan\u2014March 1, 2010 CPC Work Plan Report<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLast night Charlottesville City Council approved purchasing floodplain acreage next to the Rivanna River.<br \/>\nSeveral of the Councilors and the City Manager spoke thoughtfully about the purchase.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13726\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/210807-Couple-Rivanna-low-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/210807-Couple-Rivanna-low-water.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/210807-Couple-Rivanna-low-water-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/210807-Couple-Rivanna-low-water-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/210807-Couple-Rivanna-low-water-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13727\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/200711bw-Rivanna-float.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/200711bw-Rivanna-float.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/200711bw-Rivanna-float-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/200711bw-Rivanna-float-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/200711bw-Rivanna-float-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There has been much talk about the Rivanna Corridor in the last two decades. I hope, this time, City leadership, staff and elected, will get serious. Spending five million dollars is a serious move. Other moves, like rewriting the zoning code for the acreage in the flood plain, should be undertaken post haste.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CH754F6-HPE-Rivanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CH754F6-HPE-Rivanna.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CH754F6-HPE-Rivanna-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CH754F6-HPE-Rivanna-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/CH754F6-HPE-Rivanna-768x498.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s old is new again Last night Charlottesville City Council approved purchasing floodplain acreage next to the Rivanna River. Several of the Councilors and the City Manager spoke thoughtfully about the purchase. There has been much talk about the Rivanna Corridor in the last two decades. I hope, this time, City leadership, staff and elected, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/circus-grounds-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Circus grounds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34,28,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-riverine","category-urban-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13730,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13723\/revisions\/13730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}