General news round-up for late February 2020

I also produce tweet threads of news from other sources. I sometimes let my email boxes pile up because I need to process all of these information, and not just delete it. This can be overwhelming but I want to keep @cvillepedia up to date. 

Charlottesville and Albemarle area 

• First, @nbc29 had a story on February 13 about the Charlottesville Ice Park. (bit.ly/380VEzH)
  
• The University of Virginia is seeking to create a vanpool between Scottsville and the many different parts of Grounds.@nbc29 has this story
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• This falls under #15 of UVA's Transportation Demand Management Plan! (bit.ly/2w3KWv6) Expansion of a quarry in Loudoun County has raised questions about a trail network in the area.
  
• My @piedmontenviron colleague @Gem_Bingol is quoted in this @LoudounNow story from last week (bit.ly/392umKK)
  
• Road infrastructure is under construction for North Pointe, a development approved in 2006 that's only now coming closer to fruition. @cbs19 has this story (bit.ly/3c7lq8x)
  
• Construction and redevelopment of the Woolen Mills factory to be the new home for @willowtreeapps is expected to be completed in April. @NBC29 has this story (bit.ly/3819OAR)
  
• The Town of Scottsville has a grant from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development to plan for redevelopment of the former tire factory. @rileywyantTV has this story on @NBC29 I have questions for @regeslawless (bit.ly/2HU4STV)
  
• Last week, Charlottesville City Council adopted a resolution affirming $3 million in financial commitments to the second phase of the South First Street public housing redevelopment, which will build 113 new units. @NBC29 has this story (bit.ly/3a6QMdF)
  
  If you want to read the staff report for this, I uploaded it to @cvillepedia for posterity (bit.ly/3c8B5Vf)
  
• This week, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority got an update on recycling here. @CarlyKempler was there for @NBC29 (bit.ly/3cgFTYB)

Elsewhere in Virginia

• Madison Heights in Amherst County is updating its master plan and there's support for a town center or town green. @ABC13News has this story (bit.ly/2Psne2n)
  
• Four companies are vying for franchises to operate dockless scooters / e-bikes in Virginia Beach. (bit.ly/387H4GA)
  
• Roanoke is building a new bus station, as reported by the @roanoketimes (bit.ly/3cepXGl)
  
• Ranked-choice voting could be coming to Virginia thanks to legislation sponsored by Delegate @SallyLHudson - what would that look like? Here's a @MercuryVirginia story from @gmoomaw that is posted on @NewsInTheBurg (bit.ly/2SYX1uv)

The shifting environment

• The biologist E.O. Wilson has called on half of the planet to be protected from development to save non-human species. How realistic is this? @YaleE360 asks this question in this story from earlier this month (bit.ly/2VoL6rh)
  
• What if construction practices were changed to construct every building in a way that all of its materials could be re-used? This @guardiancities article reviews how doing so could help communities become carbon neutral (bit.ly/3ccOefR)