{"id":4831,"date":"2013-05-15T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2013-05-15T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:10:26","slug":"mice-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/mice-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"mice and men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A010064-trailers.jpg\" alt=\"installing pipe beneath Carlton AV\"><br \/>\nAll manner of development activity afoot in Charlottesville. One of the Planning Commissioners commented on it last night, I didn&#8217;t write the exact number down, but there are something like a thousand &#8220;dwelling units&#8221; fixing to appear on the real estate market. Another Planning Commissioner asked how we were coming on meeting the proposed Comprehensive Plan goal of having 15% of that new housing affordable. There wasn&#8217;t an answer readily available to that question. Most of the housing being built near UVA is constructed to do liposuction on the students&#8217; parents wallets. No one ever builds affordable housing for UVA workers near the U. There is some affordable housing coming on line, JABA&#8217;s Timberlake Place in the Woolen Mills and Habitat&#8217;s Sunrise Park, 1\/4 mile south of Timberlake, in east Belmont-Carlton. (so roughly 5% of the 1000 units are affordable)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A010461-MJH.jpg\" alt=\"MJH redo\"><br \/>\nNot all the development is residential. CFA remodeling is  rocking along at the former Martha Jefferson.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A010103-holding-ponds-rwsa.jpg\" alt=\"holding ponds\"><br \/>\nNot all the development is roofs for sleeping\/working people. Over on the sewer side of town Big doings. RWSA has been successfully addressing multiple issues. They have increased Phosphorous and Nitrogen removal from their effluent, an excellent development for the Rivanna River, the James and the Chesapeake Bay. Additionally, they&#8217;ve constructed a wetland, they are fixing to unleash a tunnel boring machine and they have made major strides in odor control, keeping the stink on site.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/A010419-quill-SIA.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Quill\"><br \/>\nIn every direction there are people planning&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AAA9672-arch-school.jpg\" alt=\"vortex participant\"><br \/>\n&#8230;tackling long range issues. How do we reconnect the people to the river. How do we make the street a place that&#8217;s good for more than squashing possums and exercising fire engines? How do we restore streets to their commons status?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/L1002530-meyers-class.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nHow do we incorporate green infrastructure and low impact development practices into our cheat the cookie building culture?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC_0019-monticello-wrights.jpg\" alt=\"background Monticello foreground Harry A. Wright's INC\"><br \/>\nHow do we move to excellent urban planning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All manner of development activity afoot in Charlottesville. One of the Planning Commissioners commented on it last night, I didn&#8217;t write the exact number down, but there are something like a thousand &#8220;dwelling units&#8221; fixing to appear on the real estate market. Another Planning Commissioner asked how we were coming on meeting the proposed Comprehensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/mice-and-men\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mice and men&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,54,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-development","category-stinky","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\/4831"}],"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=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4842,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}