Livable Cville

@livablecville.bsky.social

We advocate for policies to build an inclusive Charlottesville area with affordable housing, sustainable transportation & healthy neighborhoods welcoming to all

https://livablecville.org/

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Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and UVA can make significant strides towards making homelessness in our area rare, brief, and non-recurring, but only if they prioritize making housing common, affordable, and accessible.

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A harrowing story from @bench.bsky.social, Charlottesville’s Transportation Planning Manager, about being hit by a car on a city street while biking.

We are grateful Ben wasn’t severely injured and hope he heels quickly.

And we hope that city streets will quickly be made safe for everyone.

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Come and join us this Tuesday, October 13th at 5:30pm for a gathering at Tea Bazaar with San Diego State University Professor Dr. Bruce Appleyard, one of the country’s great thinkers and advocates for livable streets and communities.

A Conversation with Bruce Appleyard Date: Tuesday, October 13 Time: 5:30 - 7 p.m. Where: Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar 414 East Main Street. Charlottesville Contact: PEC; pkrebs@pecva.org, 434-465-9869 Join local advocates and practitioners for an intimate conversation with former Charlottesville Neighborhood Planner and Planning Commissioner Dr. Bruce Appleyard. This informal gathering, which will focus on conversation among equals, pairs with a large lecture at the University of Virginia on the previous night (Monday). Both sessions will focus on ways that transportation decisions shape communities and the ongoing challenge of balancing mobility, economic development, and neighborhood livability. The event is free. A variety of food and beverages will be available. Snacks will be provided. The Piedmont Mobility Alliance is a coalition of organizations, agencies, businesses and groups who share a vision of a better-connected community for walking, biking and other forms of active transportation in Charlottesville and Albemarle County
@modacitylife.comReposted by @livablecville.bsky.social

One of the key lessons from Dutch cycling history is cities didn't start with protected lanes. They began by making streets safer, calmer and more inviting; with lower speeds, parking restrictions, traffic filters and reduced through-traffic to create an environment in which cycling could flourish.🧵

A cycling priority street in the Netherlands where drivers are guests and cyclists are the main users.
@bench.bsky.socialReposted by @livablecville.bsky.social

We're starting our crosstown bike bus pilot (pilot!) officially tomorrow. Look for me out there in a bright yellow shirt, riding back and forth in the W Main corridor.

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For good reason, people focus on detached single family exclusionary zoning as being really bad. But it went hand in hand with pushing neighborhood scale commercial uses out of residential areas, creating car dependency, furthering segregation, and making vast swaths of development pretty crappy.

@waldo.netReposted by @livablecville.bsky.social

Walking around the residential neighborhoods of greater Charlottesville, it is frustrating how far it's necessary to walk to find a store. In some newer quasi-new-urbanist developments, their absence is striking. Everybody is worse off for this zoning prohibition.

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