Charlottesville Community Engagement

Each weekday, I create a newsletter and newscast designed to provide you with a concise update on the latest happenings in and around Charlottesville. Our community encounters various challenges, and my role is to keep you informed with the most recent information collected from meetings, press conferences, and interviews.

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May 29, 2025: Streambank restoration work at Biscuit Run in progress and three other stories about Albemarle County

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.
May 28, 2025: Duncan and Shreve answer questions at Free Enterprise Forum event

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.
May 27, 2025: Board of Zoning Appeals upholds administrative modification for 24 units at 2030 Barracks Road

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.
Week Ahead for May 26, 2025: Charlottesville PC to review proposed amendments to new zoning code; Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority to hold public hearing on $550 million capital program

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.
Podcast for May 25, 2025: City Council candidate forum, Sanders explains how he wants to spend $5.4 million from surplus, and an important day at the BZA

2 weeks ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

Congratulations! You’re about to listen to the latest edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement! All you have to do is hit the play button and you’ll be able to hear several stories about what’s happening in local and regional government.
May 22, 2025: City Manager Sanders outlines how he wants to spend $5.4 million of Charlottesville’s FY24 surplus

2 weeks ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

On the 142nd day of 1846, five daily newspapers in New York City formed a cooperative in order to share the costs of reporting the Mexican-American War. On this May 22 in 2025, the Associated Press turns 179 and likely has many stories about what’s happening in state and federal government. This is Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and occasional podcast that seeks to provide information about local and regional government. I’m Sean Tubbs, powered by inertia and stubbornness.
May 21, 2025: VDOT holding public hearings Thursday on projects in both Albemarle County and Nelson County

2 weeks ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

The official but likely flawed count of Charlottesville Community Engagement counts this as the 868th edition of the newsletter. The halfway point to this time would be the 434th edition which went out on September 22, 2022. That’s back when every single version was also a podcast. I’m Sean Tubbs, and I’m just glad to be able to keep writing these stories and documenting these times. Will any of us make it to the 161,216th edition?
May 20, 2025: Charlottesville Board of Zoning Appeals to consider "administrative modification" for plans for 24 units at 2030 Barracks Road

2 weeks ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

With billions of people on the planet, there will inevitably be different ways of doing things. If this were a European newsletter, this would be the edition for 20 May, 2025, or 20-5-2025. However, Charlottesville Community Engagement is a publication the originates from one of the countries of North America so this is May 20, 2025, or 5-20-25. Either way it’s the 140th day of the year and there are also many different ways to pronounce my name, Sean Tubbs.
May 19, 2025: Three candidates for Charlottesville City Council introduce themselves to the Greenbrier neighborhood

2 weeks ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

There have been several other 24-hour periods that have gone by May 19 and world history is filled with several milestones such as an act of Parliament in 1649 that established England as a Commonwealth. That would only last for eleven years before the monarchy was restored. Much closer to now in 2015, the Blue Ridge Swim Club was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Week Ahead for May 19, 2025: Charlottesville City Council to get updates on efforts to assist the unhoused; Two Albemarle bodies to review updated economic development strategic plan

2 weeks ago | communityengagement.substack.com | Sean Tubbs

I have a friend who has lived here since early 2024 and yesterday for the first time I picked her up and took her to work. I needed to get a photo of a site near where she lives and I offered to pick her up from where she lives in Albemarle County so she could avoid getting an Uber or a Lyft during graduation weekend. At almost every point in the journey I could see the results of previous stories I have written as this community has grown. The John Warner Parkway.