| Charles Martin, the executive director of Urban Vision, discusses some of the programs and services available to people in low-income Charlottesville neighborhoods. Urban Vision has provided direct services to more than 75 percent of the 150 housing units at Friendship Court, a federally subsidized neighborhood in Charlottesville. Produced by Voices of Poverty. |
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Charlottesville Podcasting Network
Expanding the public square through multimedia
CRN: U.Va’s economic impact described in new study
Bill Shobe is the Director of Business and Economics at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, and John Knapp is a senior economist in that division. Both men join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss a new study that outlines the University of Virginia’s economic impact.
CRN: Sally Thomas gives her take on the NGIC land-swap deal
Sally Thomas is one of six members of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and the lone vote against a resolution in May of 2006 to approve a boundary adjustment to pull thirty acres into the growth area and remove about eighty acres from the Pantops Development Area. The land, owned by developer Wendell Wood, would be sold to the National Ground Intelligence Center for use in their expansion in Albemarle County. Thomas joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to explain her vote, and Coy plays audio from that meeting.
Later in the show, Crozet resident Tom Loach phones in to ask Thomas about population numbers in the Crozet Master Plan.
Keep up to date with the latest on this issue on Charlottesville Tomorrow.
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CRN: Crozet resident Tom Loach on the master planning process
Crozet resident Tom Loach joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to give an update on the twenty-year Crozet Master Plan and its population estimates. Loach worked on the committee that recommended the master plan to the Board of Supervisors, which they approved in December 2004. However, since the 2,275 home Old Trail Village
development was approved in late 2005, Loach has been asking questions about whether new developments approved in Crozet were putting it on track to exceed the build-out population of 12,000 people anticipated by the plan.
In January 2006, the Board of Supervisors accepted a staff calculation that established a “theoretical ultimate build-out” population for the Crozet growth area closer to 24,000 which might be reached some point after 2024. Loach led a petition drive which garnered over 1,300 signatures from residents who wanted to cap Crozet’s future population at 12,000. Over the past two years he has sought information from the County related to the population estimates and he recently received documents from Albemarle County as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. In the interview, he describes the documents he says supports the community’s belief that the planning effort described a maximum ideal population of
12,000 in Crozet
Dead Man Walking author at Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice
Sister Helen Prejean began her prison ministry in 1981, dedicating her life to the poor of New Orleans. In 1993, she wrote Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and later became an Oscar nominated film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. On April 26, Sister Helen spoke at St Thomas Aquinas church in Charlottesville. She is introduced by Father Brian Mulcahey.
CRN: L.A. Bound Filmmaker Rom Alejandro
Recent U.Va graduate Rom Alejandro joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss recent developments in film at Mr. Jefferson’s University. Alejandro is moving to Los Angeles to seek a career in the film industry, after helping nurture a movie-making community in Charlottesville. He’ll be documenting his progress as a regular guest on Coy’s show.
CRN: Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow on the work of keeping tabs on local government, and Wendell Wood in studio to discuss the NGIC land deal
Brian Wheeler of Charlottesville Tomorrow joins Coy Barefoot each week on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss growth and development issues. On this show, Coy and Brian start with a discussion about the importance of public engagement in local government decision-making. Coy highlights the in-depth report by Charlottesville Tomorrow summarizing the land deal related to the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) located on Route 29 north of Charlottesville. That report includes the first detailed map of the land that developer Wendell Wood requested that Albemarle move within the County’s growth area to support his private transaction to sell land to the federal government for NGIC’s expansion.Coy and Brian are joined in studio by developer Wendell Wood who explains the background of his negotiations with the federal government related to NGIC. Wood described how, in 2006, the federal government had only half of the about $14 million they had promised him for 47 acres adjacent to the existing NGIC facility. Wood said he felt it was his civic duty to help NGIC expand and remain in Charlottesville, but that he didn’t think he should totally subsidize the transaction. Thus he requested the County support him by passing a resolution of intent to allow a future land swap moving 30 acres of other rural land into the growth area so he could recoup some of the $7 million that the U.S. Congress did not appropriate for the land buy. He highlighted the 800-100 jobs an expanded NGIC will bring to Charlottesville as the Department of Defense relocates personnel from other facilities near Washington, D.C.
CRN: Historian Rick Britton tells the story of Pickett’s Charge
Historian Rick Britton joins Coy Barefoot each week for a look at Albemarle County’s past. This week, Pickett’s Charge, and a look at the new issue of the Magazine of Albemarle County.
CRN: Libertarian candidate Arin Sime (24th Senate District)
Arin Sime is the libertarian candidate for Virginia’s 24th Senate District, and is facing incumbent Republican Emmett Hanger and Democrat David Cox in the November election. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about his positions, and why he thinks he deserves to win the seat. Sime lives in Crozet, which is part of the 24th District.
CRN: Bob Gibson of the Daily Progress
Bob Gibson is the political columnist for the Charlottesville Daily Progress, and joins Coy Barefoot every week on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about Virginia politics. This week, the conversation goes from summer vacations, to the presidential race, and the upcoming legislative races in the Old Dominion. Recent Repulican primary wins by far-right conservatives could put control of the Virginia Senate in play.