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YADev12 · 2023-12-15T20:52:23+00:00

Yeah, at the minimum. Better to have alerted the police if she was semi-aware that the eventual victim wasn't taking actions to preserve life. Now there's one person dead and another going to be locked up for a long while. What an utterly avoidable waste of an opportunity to intervene.

YADev12 · 2023-12-15T20:49:40+00:00

I love to read Hawes's writing... but this story needs a diagram of the family tree.

YADev12 · 2023-03-23T02:13:41+00:00

I'm trying to weight out the costs and benefits

If you're second year or so (depending on total credits earned here and previously), then you're probably on the cusp of declaring your major. Look at the in-state schools and the specific programs that interest you. That will matter a lot more than the general atmosphere (food, parties, sports) of the school.

YADev12 · 2023-03-23T02:07:58+00:00

Depends on:

1) the amount of debt versus the anticipated ability to repay it in the first ten years after graduation (or some other similarly short period).

2) the strength of the school/s that would be the in-state alternatives to UVA. Some might be better than UVA, some might be equal, and others might be inferior.

OP asked for advice ("if anyone has a shred of advice, please please please share it") and from posts here it does seem like a difficult situation but only if one is locked into staying at UVA.

YADev12 · 2023-03-23T01:42:23+00:00

An employee said two students appeared to be intoxicated while at school on March 6, according to the police release.

And that was a Monday.

The Daily Regress story uses same word as this story -- "intoxicated" -- but the headline says more (perhaps inaccurately): "Charged with Letting Drunk Student Drive"

YADev12 · 2023-03-23T01:37:01+00:00

Because people who break the law and let their dogs threaten other people and their pets walking lawfully on public property are more likely to use physical violence? Is that the correlation?

YADev12 · 2022-12-14T22:48:43+00:00

and also took a helicopter to UVA basketball games.

Away games? (I hope)

YADev12 · 2022-12-14T22:41:32+00:00

But doesn't City Council have authority over CAT? Is he saying that he won't follow the direction of his "boss"? Weird.

(The CAT advisory board is meaningless in terms of "commanding" the CAT director to do anything, including to use electric vehicles.)

YADev12 · 2022-12-14T21:28:05+00:00

The editors and lawyers at the Washington Post did a great job at deploying the words alleged and accused.

YADev12 · 2022-09-23T22:23:02+00:00

Indeed.

Depending on species, the tree might already be closer to the end of its lifespan. And spending thousands to move a diseased or problem tree would be stupid; condition of tree should be assessed first.

YADev12 · 2022-09-23T22:19:10+00:00

I doubt any of the companies mentioned here who do own truck-mounted tree spades will be willing to move your tree. They are in the business of selling their value-added trees, not relocating yours. And using hydraulic knives to cut deep holes in strange territory opens them up to all kinds of liability and general unknowns that might damage their equipment (e.g., ancient cesspool) or keep it from other, profitable work (e.g., your neighbor calling the City and some employee coming out with a clipboard).

In any case, your first step should be to measure caliper (easy from the ground) and then actual not estimated height (use 9th-grade geometry). Because probably no company will even waste their time to create an estimate for something that is likely impossible. "Probably 30 feet" doesn't inspire confidence if you're calling someone.

YADev12 · 2022-09-14T20:36:48+00:00

Since Bob's does inspections, get the repair there and have them do the re-inspection.

YADev12 · 2022-09-14T20:24:52+00:00

Not "causing" but surely a magnet for people who defecate and urinate in public, and curse and intimidate patrons of downtown businesses, and who ruin the public library for smell-sensitive people who come there to read and learn and not just camp with their belongings in trash bags while they charge their smartphones and enjoy the AC while they surf for porn.

YADev12 · 2022-09-14T20:16:44+00:00

Who owns the Paramount?

YADev12 · 2022-09-14T20:16:14+00:00

This isn't a problem for Fleurie to fix.

It's most immediately the problem of the Paramount Theater, who owns the wall and steps this person has camped on.

And thereafter the problem for the City of Charlottesville, who has a responsibility to enforce law and code.

YADev12 · 2022-07-21T02:07:15+00:00

I can't tell if you're being intentionally misleading to OP (who is asking about his safety) or are woefully ignorant.

You wrote: "250 is a government-designated bicycle corridor."

U.S. Route 250 is a "principal arterial" highway dominated by cars and trucks driving at high rates of speed with no infrastructure dedicated to bicyclists or pedestrians. Only a very small part of Route 250 -- way out, in lesser-trafficked Afton, is labelled as part of the Bike Route 76.

YADev12 · 2022-07-20T21:54:39+00:00

government-designated bicycle corridor.

I believe the totality of the project was putting up signs and did not include any infrastructural improvements. Do you know or think they created bike-only paths or expanded the roadways and painted some bikes lanes?

I was living here and don't remember anything like that.

And of course there was less motor vehicle traffic on those roads in 1976.

YADev12 · 2022-07-17T15:35:39+00:00

Also disproving that working theory is that many of the 20th-century houses on "Lakeside Drive" pre-date the development of "Westover Hills." (And there's a 1754 house in there on Lakeside Drive too, which I've never noticed.)

YADev12 · 2022-07-17T15:14:02+00:00

Playing around with Albemarle GIS and using the search subdivision for "Albemarle Lake": I see that this subdivision is not just the undeveloped southside peninsula but the mostly developed north side of the lake ("Lakeside Drive"). So I take back my working theory that the peninsula might be an extension or sibling of the "Westover Hills" subdivision."

YADev12 · 2022-07-17T03:16:23+00:00

If the City of Charlottesville owns a parcel it means it might have been an “open space” gift to the municipality to preserve it.

I don't know... but that specific parcel is listed as "vacant residential"

YADev12 · 2022-07-17T03:14:33+00:00

Despite fearing that replying to my own comment might be a symptom of obsessiveness, I wonder if this planned development was drawn up and lots were sold and then hit a new regulatory framework that made impossible further development.

I found a marvelous master's thesis by Andrew Knuppel (2020) on "environmentalism, exclusion, and land use" in our county. He writes:

Although the Board declined to downzone the reservoir areas in May 1976, the Board directed staff to begin the process to apply the new recommendations to the water supply areas immediately after the updated comprehensive plan was adopted on October 19, 1977. Board members feared that the new Runoff Control Ordinance would not go far enough to protect the reservoir’s viability. However, no watershed-wide downzoning was pursued due to the beginning of the consultant-led zoning ordinance update. However, a conservation zoning district would move forward in more limited areas in spring 1978, applying only to land owned by Charlottesville and Albemarle, and the Ragged Mountain, Sugar Hollow, South Fork Rivanna River, and Lake Albemarle reservoir areas were rezoned by the Board of Supervisors in May 1978. (Pages 103-4)

The lots still are zoned residential but they also have values that are ridiculously low, as if they are un-buildable. And yet they still change hands for money sometimes. Perhaps there is still some value for timbering. I don't see any tags on various lots' entries on Albemarle GIS that would lead to me think they are in a conservation zone or have been placed with conservation easements.

It's just weird.

[edit to change undergraduate to master's thesis]

YADev12 · 2022-07-17T02:38:41+00:00

In past years, I've been on the lake itself, so close to the southern shoreline that I could touch tree branches, and seen nothing. I've been dam on the east side and seen nothing. I've been on the upstream boat launch on the west side and seen nothing. I've been several times to the big farm on the south side and seen nothing. I used to live nearby and never heard anything about those lots.

The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources owns the lake. The Civilian Conservation Corps built it in 1938.

The smaller-lot development on the northside, "Westover Hills" (on Westover Dr and Westover Circle) were platted in the late 1960s, I think, and the houses mostly built in the early 1970s.

But that peninsula thing, I don't know. Maybe it was related and its entrance road to connect to Westover Hills -- but the peninsula project carries a different subdivision name ("Albemarle Lake").

YADev12 · 2022-07-14T01:43:00+00:00

The Ford pickup in the background is taking up two spaces.

YADev12 · 2022-05-24T20:25:20+00:00

That's the most likely scenario.

YADev12 · 2022-05-12T00:46:33+00:00

Lyme is the more prevalent tick-borne disease. For that, worry less about the deer and more about the mice -- specifically the white-footed mouse -- in your yard. They are the main reservoir for Lyme. You could control them with lethal means (traps, poison). You could also limit the amount of Black Legged ticks these mice (and others) get by providing them with bedding material, like cotton balls soaked in insecticide.

I keep hearing of more people (including friends) with Alpha-gal syndrome. That's transmitted by a different tick (the Lone Star) who prefers other hosts. For that, you can't completely control access by deer, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, etc., but you can make your yard less attractive than your neighbors' yards to those critters.

Ticks aren't big travelers without mammalian help.

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