A court hearing held Tuesday on an injunction to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway from being built came only a day after a statewide nonprofit named McIntire Park as one of Virginia’s most endangered historic sites.

“The ramifications are greater than just this one piece of land.”

For years, the tombstone outside Weldon Showalter’s Park Street home bid rest in peace to the Meadowcreek Parkway.

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The three Democrats fighting for their party’s nomination for the City Council spent Tuesday evening trying to distinguish their views on issues facing city residents.

The Meadowcreek Parkway will take up about .6 of a mile of Charlottesville terrain, but for many of the project’s opponents, the road is everywhere and connected to everything.

Motorists on East Rio Road should expect delays tonight as crews work on a new bridge as part of the Meadowcreek Parkway project.

Charlottesville’s smallest swimmers will still have one wading pool to splash around in for summers to come.

Councilor Holly Edwards has been inundated with messages about the city’s controversial plan to shut down the McIntire Park wading pool, and she’s not the only one.

Just months after the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park formed to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway, a different group is considering creating a nonprofit to rescue the park’s aging wading pool.

After many residents decried a city decision to close the McIntire Park wading pool, Mayor Dave Norris has put the fate of the facility up for a City Council discussion and vote.

Motorists traveling on East Rio Road tonight should expect delays near the bridge crossing over the Norfolk Southern train tracks.

Martie Wills said she got the feeling last year that the wading pool at McIntire Park would be shut down soon for some reason. She said the pool was too good to be true.

The wading pool at McIntire Park has sat nestled between the U.S. 250 Bypass and the park’s golf course for decades, collecting leaf piles during the winter before being filled every spring with fresh water.

An injunction filed to halt construction of the Meadowcreek Parkway on a particular piece of Charlottesville land was denied in Charlottesville Circuit Court Wednesday.