Sean Tubbs

1 week ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

Correction: This newsletter originally went out with the wrong year. I regret the oops. The Northeast Regional speeds along the tracks between Charlottesville and Culpeper, bound for Boston. This May 29, 2025 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement will only be published if I can manage to get stories written between wherever I am now and wherever I’ll end up being. Will I make it to the end? You’ll have to sort through the following paragraphs and images to find out.

1 week ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

There are echoes of the past in what is happening now. On this day in 1950, the Charlottesville Daily Progress reported that both Albemarle County and Charlottesville were too affluent to receive financial assistance from the Commonwealth of Virginia for school construction. Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson were able to apply. This is the type of story that Charlottesville Community Engagement strives to provide and perhaps there will be one like it in this May 28, 2025 edition.

1 week ago | c-ville.com | Sean Tubbs

These are complicated times for anyone who’s tracking the details of how new housing gets constructed in Charlottesville. While planners and builders are still learning how the new development code works, staff in the Department of Neighborhood Development Services are hoping to adopt the first set of amendments by the end of the year. A meeting of the Planning Commission on May 27 served as the kick-off for the public process for those changes.

1 week ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

Do you remember Memorial Day? What about last Tuesday? What did you do a month ago? Where will you be in a month? These questions have no bearing on anything else that you will read in this May 27, 2025 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement but there are benefits from being able to answer any questions about your timeline. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I’m about to start writing now.

1 week ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

Memorial Day is a chance to reflect on those in the armed services who lost their lives in various conflicts. For me, this is a day to reflect on the fragility of democracy. I’ve spent this cloudy day combing through whatever meetings are happening in local and regional government this final week of May.