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Events

• March 4 – Former city manager Tarron Richardson voluntarily withdraws his lawsuit against Charlottesville City Council.
• March 11 – The Charlottesville Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred on February 4, 2022 in the Water Street parking garage. The suspect displayed a weapon to the victim and took the victim's credit cards and phone.
• March 11 – Nelson County Service Authority breaks ground on an $18.5 million project to replace the wastewater treatment plant at Wintergreen

• March 21 – Scottsville Town Council voted 4-3 for a special use permit to allow 36 units on Bird Street as part of an infill development project.
• April 13 – A Jefferson Elm is planted on the Lawn at the University of Virginia in honor of retired landscape architect Mary Hughes

• May 6 – The McCormick Public Night Program will resume starting on this Friday night. All Public Night and Educational Group programs at McCormick Observatory and Fan Mountain Observatory were canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. The Leander McCormick Observatory has been offering education and public outreach programs to Virginians since its dedication on April 13, 1885.
• May 19 – A Virginia historic marker for Gregory Hayes Swanson was unveiled outside the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library's Central Branch to commemorate his successful lawsuit against the University of Virginia to be admitted in 1950.

• June 1 – City of Charlottesville Mayor Lloyd Snook issues a proclamation for Gun Violence Awareness Day (June 3, 2022) to honor and remember all victims and survivors of gun violence, and to declare that we as a City must do more to reduce gun violence.
• June 3 – Gun Violence Awareness Day
• July 11 – Second Amtrak daily Northeast Regional passenger train entered service between Roanoke and D.C.
• July 18 – City Council adopted a plastic bag tax to begin January 1, 2023. This tax levy is the result of action passed during the 2020 General Assembly session where Virginia localities received enabling authority to impose a disposable plastic bag tax within their jurisdictional limits. The legislation allows localities to impose a five cent ($.05) per bag tax on disposable plastic bags provided by certain retailers.

• July 27 – Steven Rosenberg will become the next Albemarle County attorney on July 27, 2022.

• August 1 – Jesse Brookins becomes Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Albemarle County.

• August 26 – Hearing held for demurrer in lawsuit to throw out Charlottesville's Comprehensive Plan

• September 7 – Albemarle Board of Supervisors approve rezoning for up to 250 units to be built in the Heritage on Rio project.

• September 21, Wednesday 10:00 AM – Site Plan Conference for a Final Site Plan submitted for the MACAA PUD.

• September 21 – Commonwealth Transportation Board is briefed on cost estimate increase from $11.7 million to $17.9 million for the Fontaine Avenue Streetscape. Charlottesville had agreed to pay an additional $750,000 in local match.

• December 2 – Closing date for advertised position of the city's second Executive Director of the Police Civilian Oversight Board (PCOB); appointed by the City Manager with the consent of the Charlottesville City Council.

• December 19 – On November 21st, City Council approved an extension of the due date for 2nd half tax payments until December 19th. This change is temporary and only affects 2nd half 2022 tax bills.

• December 21 – the City of Charlottesville will hold a Site Plan Conference on this Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the NDS Conference Room in City Hall to review Belmont Heights (1000 Monticello Road) - Justin Shimp with Shimp Engineering P.C., on behalf of the owner Piedmont Realty Holdings III, LLC, has submitted a Final Site Plan.

• December 21 – The City of Charlottesville, at 11 a.m. in the NDS Conference Room in City Hall, will hold a Site Plan Conference to review 1613 Grove Street Extended - Justin Shimp with Shimp Engineering P.C., on behalf of the owner Lorven Investments, LLC, has submitted a Final Site Plan for a (28) unit residential development.

• December 22 – The City of Charlottesville awards Black & Veatch a contract to study the decarbonization of the city's gas utility.

• December 31 – David Oberg's term representing White Hall seat on Board of Supervisors is over due to his resignation.

Deaths

• July 15 – Randy Jones dies and is later buried in Richmond. An avid sports fan, Jones spent much of his time in Charlottesville, working merchandise inventory at the local McDonald's as well as holding a job at Mel's Cafe.
• September 3 – Duane E. Snow, former member of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
• October 13 – Ed Roseberry dies in San Jose, California. An alumnus of the University of Virginia, Rosberry became a local freelance photographer who was well-known for methodically documenting several decades of life in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, once being described by Coy Barefoot as the "Rufus Holsinger of the second half of the 20th century."

• October 25 – Matthew Sean Farrell, a local publisher, writer, and connoisseur of the arts.

• November 15 – Cole Hendrix, City Manager of Charlottesville from 1971-1996.