Brian Wheeler is the executive director of Charlottesville Tomorrow, and was recently re-elected to the Albemarle County School Board. With the election out of the way, Brian will be rejoining Coy Barefoot every week on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about growth and development issues. The first thing discussed this week: how growth issues affected the race for the Board of Supervisors. Democrat Ann Mallek defeated incumbent Republican David Wyant for the White Hall seat, while Republican Ken Boyd defeated his challenger Marcia Joseph by 146 votes.
“The 3-3 balance or stalemate, depending on how you look at it, is now broken and potentially on a lot of issues, there’s a 4-2 majority with Ann Mallek coming on board,” Brian said. The new supervisor will be sworn in on January 1st.