Steven L. Johnson

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Crowd is forming early outside the middle school on Crozet waiting for the Three Notched Trail meeting. Landowners were invited 30min early. (Post delayed because the middle school was a data dead zone.)

This is one of the least surprising findings I have read recently, but it *is a finding*! Having one’s priors confirmed by data is important.

Today starting at 6:30 PM — show up to support a great trail project that could some day connect Cville to Crozet and on to the Blue Ridge Tunnel👇🏽

We are approaching the warmest global surface air temperature anomaly on record (1.15C on Nov 18 2023) as record El Niño approaches peak: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

Turning off your housing supply doesn't stop wealthy people from moving to your city - it stops your kids' teachers from affording a place, and in a few years when they want to move out, your own kids from finding a place to live where they grew up

We love to see it!

“Heat killed a record 50k people in European cities this summer, new research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for 2/3rds of the deaths. Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives…”

Help shape what will become of the bronze from Charlottesville’s melted Robert E. Lee statue! Please join Swords Into Plowshares at First Baptist Church (West Main) for our first listening session with the sculptor and designer. Weds, Nov 4, at 6 pm. jeffschoolheritagecenter.org/events/roote...

The spooky doorbell was a big hit at the Crozet Bookfest today, along with books for all ages! We gave out 137 books, saw some fabulous shoes, and had fun introducing the bus to guests. Also, I met Larry and Darryl, the best pair of greyhounds 😍 Thanks to Bluebird & Co. for inviting us!

Yall the flu is definitely here! If you are someone who usually waits until later to get your flu shot, make that a priority today! In fact, you can go right after you vote- early voting is open Saturday and Sunday this weekend!  

And, once again...

I've been volunteering with Stony Point Elementary for years, getting kids outside for hands on learning experiences. We're piloting an outdoor education program to expand this work and we're ready to hire a coordinator. Please share! Posted on ACPS under Elementary Outdoor Education Coordinator.

Come out Thursday night and offer your input on proposed mulitmodal improvements to Avon St. on Thursday, October 22 from 5 – 7pm at Monticello High School. More information here: us.list-manage.com/YSVzPYcOGT1?...

This is a great article and vote yes on all 4 items! But also 🙌🏻 I really appreciate I’m not the only Sup who swears 😅. Maybe a benefit of getting more millennials into office? c-ville.com/voters-weigh...

UVA undergrad Aleena Patel created a very cool resource that helps voters in Charlottesville and Albemarle County both find where their polling place is and how to get there via various means of transportation, keeping in mind that not everyone drives. transittoturnout.org

“Three out of four disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — Anna Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with The Urban Truth Collective. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. #UrbanTruth

Pretty cool to see some big donations coming in to help with the Holiday Dr shelter renovations. And big shoutout to CACF for all they do to support the community. cacfonline.org/holidaydrive/

We sent out an action alert regarding 3 advocacy opportunities: the Avon St multimodal open house (Oct 22), a key Three Notched Trail meeting (Oct 26), and a VDOT 29N pedestrian survey. It also covers 2 social events: our County meetup (Oct 28) and a Halloween bike ride. mailchi.mp/livablecvill...

UVA Basketball: ‘Hoos ranked #9 in preseason AP Top 25 national poll augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

The economic case for meetings in organizations "Meeting frequency and intensity are positively related to worker wage growth. ... Meetings are the broccoli of work – widely disliked, but probably good for us anyway." www.nber.org/papers/w35706

‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.

“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com

The point is not that reducing speed limit is bad or futile. It’s great! But speed limit is just a beginning. It should be followed by proper traffic calming to *actually* make people driver slower.

No kings! Vote early! Vote @tomperriello.bsky.social Polls open every day from Sunday 10/18 to Saturday 10/31! Let’s gooo!

dawg

Predictable: ICE chaos is wrecking the American construction industry, and making it much harder for a US construction firm to build a house: (#econsky) https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-immigration-crackdown-is-making-it-much-harder-to-build-houses-ec00f4da?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Climate change denial takes many forms. Anger at rising insurance premiums is one of them.

damn. He is really good. The tone, the cadence…..🔥

I love it when elected officials understand how to use their power and then actually do it

for those who observe ...

I have never seen the bike lanes on Main St unblocked by delivery vehicles. So they are loading zones not bike lanes.

more like "falling cars are real"

👇🏽💯

NextGen Skilled Trades Day offers hands-on look at careers in the trades

My crazy policy proposal: Charlottesville/ Crozet should have a publicly owned farmers market like the public market in Seattle.

Dems can "make it clear that everyone who aids and abets Trump in his Neroism can and will be held accountable to the full extent of the law. ... Anyone who says something like 'We should look forward, not back' is making it significantly less likely that we will have anything to look forward to."

Occasional reminder that the overwhelming majority of apartment amenity spaces are things that can be built in un-leasable windowless interior areas and/or on the roof.