Charlottesville, Virginia City Councilor Heather Hill Joined Jerry Miller On The I Love CVille Show!

Charlottesville City Councilor Heather Danforth Hill joined us today on The I Love CVille Show powered by Greenberry’s Coffee at Barracks Road, Roy Wheeler Realty Co. and Dr. Scott Wagner of Scott Wagner Chiropractic and Sports Medicine!

Here are some of the topics we covered:

(1). I asked Heather to put herself into perspective from a personal, family, professional and civic duty standpoint.

(2). I asked Heather about the therapy/mediation session that all the Charlottesville City Councilors were apart of in December. Why did the City Councilors need this therapy session? What was gained or accomplished from this therapy session? Were the councilors hesitant to truly speak their minds at this session, especially with the press covering the event?

(3). We discussed the events before and after August 12, 2017. How has the City of CVille changed? What could have been done differently? What still needs to change?

(4). I asked Heather what it’s like to work alongside Mayor Nikuyah J Walker, Councilor Kathleen Galvin, Councilor Wes Bellamy and Councilor Michael Signer.

(5). I asked Heather about Dr. Bellamy’s recent goal to rename or rebrand Preston Avenue.

(6). We discussed the future of Fifeville and Woolen Mills. Many folks in CVille think Fifeville will be “swallowed” by the growth around it. What does Heather think?

(7). We talked about Yolunda Armstrong Harrell, the New Hill Development Corporation and its plans for the $500,000 it received from the City of CVille for future projects in the Starr Hill Neighborhood.

(8). We analyzed Adam Healey, the interim executive director of the Charlottesville Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the value he is providing CVille. What do Adam and the CACVB need to do to change the national conversation about Charlottesville, Virginia? Everyone understands that Charlottesville, Virginia needs a rebranding, but what is actually being done about this? Currently, an advertising agency from Raleigh, North Carolina (Clean, which has a grand total of 414 “likes” on its Facebook page) is dictating the branding and marketing strategies for Charlottesville, Virginia. Is this a good idea??

(9). We discussed André Xavier’s fantastic idea of terminating the contract for advertising agency Clean in favor of a crowd-sourced approach that encourages all the creative and intelligent folks in Charlottesville, Virginia to submit ideas for a campaign that better represents CVille. Currently, the Clean artwork and strategies leave much to be desired.

(10). What does Heather hope the new comprehensive plan will do to promote affordable housing?

(11). What is the value of the West Main streetscape project? Is it worth the $4,000,000 the City is putting into it?

(12). Why is Dewberry Capital Corporation floundering with its development of The Landmark Hotel on the Charlottesville DowntownMall?? What can be done to expedite this and remove this hideous eye-sore from our skyline?

(13). What happened with Keith O. Woodard’s project on Water Street? Charlottesville lost an $80,000,000 development project that would have created soooo many jobs. What truly transpired?

(14). What can be done to make The Downtown Mall more inviting to people of all races and income levels?

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