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Charlottesville Community Engagement

Town Crier Productions

Regular updates of what"s happening in local and regional government in and around Charlottesville, Virginia from an award-winning journalist with nearly thirty years of experience. communityengagement.substack.com

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Podcast for August 31, 2024: $750K in tax rebates for...

Charlottesville Community Engagement ·

2024/08/31

We are at the last day of August for 2024, and there are 335 days until the next time we call the current month after that particular Roman emperor. Fans of adulation toward long-gone dictators shouldn’t fret, though. There are 304 days until July 1, a factual statement that should also please Canadians. This is the final audio podcast of Charlottesville Community Engagement for this month, the sixth in an effort to make sure there’s a chance for people to hear the people quoted in the stories. I’m

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31:03

Podcast for August 26, 2024: Ranked choice voting in...

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2024/08/26

Before additional new stories can be written for Charlottesville Community Engagement, it is necessary to complete work on previous ones. That is the purpose of this edition of the newsletter which includes audio versions for recent stories. I’m Sean Tubbs, ever aware that the treadmill is speeding up. In this sonic edition:* Two dozen apartments planned for land next to Meadowbrook Shopping Center (learn more)* Demolition permit filed for 303 Alderman Road (learn more)* Procurement round-up:

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Podcast for August 23, 2024: VDOT eliminates left...

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2024/08/23

There are Fridays and then there’s this Friday, August 23, 2024. This is a podcast version of Charlottesville Community Engagement with audio versions of stories of material sent out earlier this week. Some of the stories have been updated with additional information. Which ones? You’ll have to study closely to find out. I’m Sean Tubbs, encouraging you to listen if you’ve not done so before. In this edition: * No left turns ever again at Hydraulic Road and U.S. 29 starting Monday (learn more)*

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29:17

Podcast for August 17, 2024: Council approves...

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2024/08/17

Good morning and welcome to another edition of the audio version of Charlottesville Community Engagement this time for August 17, 2024. This particular edition of the podcast originally aired on WTJU this morning at 6 a.m. This is the 230th day of the year meaning we are 62.8 percent of the way to 2025. A lot will happen between now and then, but here is some of what has happened in the last two weeks or so. I’m Sean Tubbs of Town Crier Productions, and written versions of these stories appear at

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31:48

Podcast for August 8, 2024: Charlottesville City...

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2024/08/08

Sometimes when there are too many loose threads, the way out is to sort them all into lines that make sense. That’s the basic theme behind this audio version of Charlottesville Community Edition collecting stories from editions #714 and #715 so work can get underway on #716. I’m Sean Tubbs, and there is madness to this madness. On this audio program:* Charlottesville City Hall has reopened for business after major water leak in 2023 (learn more)* Council recognizes Farmers Market Week through August

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34:27

Podcast for August 3, 2024: Stories on Albemarle’s...

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2024/08/03

Pliable. Stretchable. Bendabe. Malleable. Whippy. These are all synonyms for flexible, a word that describes the production nature of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and occasional podcast that for most of the past four years was both at the same time. Over time, though, it was necessary to become more limber, plastic, elastic, and workable. For this August 3, 2024 podcast edition, audio versions of several stories from the last three print editions. I’m Sean Tubbs, glad to be

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29:07

Podcast for July 27, 2024: Carlton counter-offer,...

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2024/07/27

Good morning and welcome to the July 27, 2024 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. Today is the National Day of the Cowboy, something officially sanctioned by the General Assembly in 2015. Nothing in this edition pertains to that, but somehow this ended up in the show notes anyway.In this edition: * Habitat for Humanity will make a counter-offer of at least $7 million to purchase the Carlton Mobile Home Park in Charlottesville* The Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission agrees to

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July 18, 2024: Charlottesville City Council briefed...

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2024/07/18

This being a leap year, July 18 is the 200th day of the year. Will knowing that piece of information have any effect on how this day flows for you? Is there any significance to this being the 707th edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement? If so, can it be found by listening to endless covers of the song Seven and Seven Is? I’m Sean Tubbs, and while that’s unlikely I’m going to keep trying. In today’s installment:* Charlottesville City Council is briefed on work toward reducing greenhouse gas

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18:16

July 17, 2024: Charlottesville Area Transit begins...

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2024/07/17

Yesterday my copy of Tuesday’s Charlottesville Daily Progress arrived via mail and it was a thrill to smell the paper and to remember my early days as a journalist. Though I was never an employee, I had stories appear for nine years from 2009 to 2018 and I’m glad to have been part of the first rough draft of history. I am grateful there are many sources of information about what happens in this community and glad I’ve got enough paying subscribers myself to keep me practicing my brand of journalism

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24:27

July 16, 2024: Albemarle County planning staff...

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2024/07/16

Today marks the 79th anniversary of the first ever detonation of a nuclear bomb with the Trinity test in New Mexico as part of the Manhattan Project. Just a few weeks later, the United States would use one of these in combat to end the Second World War. The devices kept getting tested, though, and over 200,000 American soldiers took part in those that happened aboveground. Their participation was a secret until years later.In 2015, the General Assembly passed a resolution marking July 16 as National

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Podcast for July 12, 2024: New names for...

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2024/07/12

Time passes by quickly between sonic editions of the program for reasons that are still in flux, but here we are again with Charlottesville Community Engagement for July 12, 2024. This week marks the fourth anniversary of the first edition and since then I’ve written and produced thousands of stories. I’m Sean Tubbs, and my best time is when I get to sit down and devote time to putting one of these together. In this edition: * July 12 marks anniversary of the lynching of John Henry James (learn

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July 4, 2024: Fluvanna Supervisors agree to Lafayette...

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2024/07/04

What’s in a number? Other numbers, usually. Seven hundred is seven times a hundred, or a hundred and forty fives, thirty-five twenties, twenty-eight twenty-fives, and many other rational combinations. This particular 700 is the one for Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter that seeks to be rational in its approach to presenting information that may sometimes be irrational. In this edition: * A trauma expert at the UVA Health System offers fireworks safety tips on this dry Fourth*

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29:23

Podcast for July 3, 2024: Two major Charlottesville...

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2024/07/03

Perhaps too much time passes between podcast versions of Charlottesville Community Engagement but imagine if you will a hypothetical listener at some point in the future listening to all of the episodes one after the other. That doesn’t really matter because you are the one experiencing the audio right now, and I have no idea when you are. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I do have the idea it is time to begin with this set of stories. On this program this time around: * Two major projects in Charlottesville

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Podcast for June 23, 2024: Social equity, stormwater,...

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2024/06/23

There are words written down, and then there are words spoken out loud and arranged into an order that allows someone listening to learn a few things about what’s happening in geographical area in which they are interested. For those reading these words now, this is a complicated way of saying this is Charlottesville Community Engagement that has been produced for June 22, 2024. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I can report that there’s madness to this method. In this installment: * Charlottesville City Council

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Podcast for June 19, 2024: Juneteenth, Smart Scale,...

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2024/06/19

The opening sentences of every single edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement are intended to be a script that opens up a podcast that contains several stories about items happening in order to engage the community of Charlottesville. In recent months, the podcast and the written newsletter are out of production sync but efforts are being made to restore this functionality. I’m Sean Tubbs, and hoping that those who read this and have not yet listened will hit play today. In this edition: *

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33:03

Podcast for June 15, 2024: City Councilors take trip...

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2024/06/15

An introspective introductionFor most of the history of this newsletter, the print version has served as the script for the audio version. Both went out at the same time. In the past few months, the two products have diverged but it is my hope to return back to more frequent audio. This particular edition is almost the exact same as the June 11, 2024 newsletter. That’s the one that went out late Tuesday about a single topic. That and the 33 minute podcast version are the result of my trip to

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Podcast edition for June 8, 2024: UVA Board of...

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2024/06/08

Some time has passed since there was an audio edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a period of time that could be quantified in many ways. Yet, to those who listen at a point way past the one in which these words are written, mere seconds may have passed. This assumes that anyone is listening at all, and we all know what happens then. In this edition:* Charlottesville’s Board of Architectural Review takes a first look at UVA’s affordable housing project at 10th and Wertland (learn more)*

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29:19

Podcast edition for May 25, 2024: City transportation...

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2024/05/25

Some time has passed since there was a sonic version of Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter that is now only sometimes a podcast, the podcast you are now listening to. That time could be anytime after May 25, 2024 when this edition was updated away from the WTJU Radio Version to something for Substack subscribers who want to hear these stories! I’m Sean Tubbs, and I do, too. In this edition:* Charlottesville transportation planners are seeking to rebuild public trust (learn more)*

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May 11, 2024 podcast: Premier Circle funding, region...

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2024/05/11

Saturday is alright for podcasting. Or at least, that’s how I deliberately misremember a song in order to have an opening paragraph for this latest audio version of Charlottesville Community Engagement. For much of this publication’s history, the sonic and print versions were unified. It may take an epic quest for that to be restored. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I seem to have misplaced the map. In this edition: * Albemarle Supervisors approve $2 million for Piedmont Housing Alliance’s 60-unit Premier

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19:08

May 8, 2024 podcast: UVA Town Hall, Louisa restores...

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2024/05/08

There is an existential theory that there is no such thing as time and what we experience is nothing more than an elaborate illusion, a construct whose mechanisms we mere mortals cannot understand. For much of the history of Charlottesville Community Engagement, an extra hour or so was taken to turn the written word into something audible. This edition is evidence that something that seems like time has been spent on an audio intrusion. In today’s edition:* UVA President Jim Ryan and UVA Police

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