Little High Neighborhood Association

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The Little High Neighborhood in Charlottesville, Va
The Little High Neighborhood was originally formed in the early aughts, just before the area between East Market Street and East Water Street / Carlton Road had more than a handful of residential units. Institutional memory not being a strong suit of volunteer run organizations generally, subsequent LHNA boards were unaware of the need to adapt to the rapid growth of the area so it wasn't officially incorporated in the neighborhood until 2023.

If you have an item that is of especial interest to Little High neighborhood residents, please let us know at: LHNA.cville@gmail.com

 

Our Contribution to the Haven’s Winter Wear Drive

Our neighborhood generously donated the following to help Do Good Cville and the Haven’s Winter Wear Drive 2025. Here’s what our neighborhood donated:

  • 34 coats and heavy jackets
  • 14 sweaters, hoodies, and sweatshirts
  • 11 pairs of winter socks
  • 6 hats
  • 5 pairs of gloves
  • 6 scarves
  • 3 pairs of women’s boots
  • 1 pair of men’s shoes
  • 4 pairs of pants
  • 1 warm snood

Thank you to everyone who donated!

Little High neighborhood's contribution to the Haven's Winter Wear Drive 2025*So, you may be wondering, what do we do now?

Play Winter Wear BINGO!

On Wednesday, November 19, The Haven, Do Good Cville, and Random Row Brewery will host a Dab for Good BINGO night to celebrate this year’s Winter Wear Drive. The event begins at 5:30pm, and we’ll start calling numbers at 6pm sharp!

Bring a coat OR $5 donation to receive a board (limit one free board per person). Prizes include gift cards and items from area restaurants, breweries, and shops. Proceeds will go to the purchase of larger-sized coats and necessities for The Haven Day Shelter.

Bonus: chat with Haven staff, get swag, learn about other ways to support our work, and enjoy some brews with pals!

Little High Neighborhood Board Meeting 11/20

The next Little High neighborhood board meeting is Thursday, Nov 20, from 7pm to 8:15pm. Everyone who lives in the neighborhood is invited to join the discussion. We especially encourage new residents to join us. People who live outside the neighborhood are welcome to witness our awesomeness and are welcome to speak as long as their comments are about our neighborhood.

In order to join the meeting you must:

  • clearly identify yourself
  • give your address upon request
  • have your camera turned on (unless there’s a technical issue) at least for the start of the meeting.

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Charlottesville’s Leaf Collection Schedule 2025-26

Our neighborhood spans two leaf collection zones

Little High neighborhood's two leaf collection zones
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It’s a little confusing

Most of the Little High Neighborhood is in the A or orange zone depicted on this map BUT the relatively newly recovered part of the neighborhood (between East Market Street and the railroad tracks on the other side of Water Street — see our About the Little High Neighborhood page for details) — is in the yellow/ochre-ish C zone.

Those of our residents in the yellow ochre-ish C zone will have their first leaf pick up this coming week, November 10-14. The second pickup will be December 15-19, and the final leaf pickup will be January 26-30.

Those of our residents living in the A or orange zone have already had their first leaf pickup. The next leaf collection is scheduled for the week of December 1-5 and our last leaf pickup will be during the week of January 12-16.

Text alert reminders

The City offers text alerts for the curbside collection service. Residents can review collection dates for their homes and choose to “opt in” to receive a reminder text the week prior to leaf collection for their address.   *Message and data rates may apply

Sign up by texting “leaf pickup” and your street address to 434-771-0251 [Read more…]

Little High Fact Sheet, 2025

The staff of Charlottesville government’s Neighborhood Development Services department put together an impressive 2 page “fact sheet” for the Little High Neighborhood with lots of interesting facts and figures. Our neighborhood is the 4th smallest by area and 5th least populous neighborhood (1,048 residents) yet we have more population density than the city average. Our neighborhood has fewer children (11%) and slightly more old people (15%) than the city averages (16% and 12% respectively). The median home value ($545,000) is higher than the City average ($516,000) and we have a significantly higher share of renters (72%) and higher average rents ($2,300) than the city averages (61% and $2,100 respectively).

Our neighborhood is assessed as having much greater walkability than Charlottesville as a whole. But this is on a relative scale and it highlights just how unwalkable most of Charlottesville is. Our neighborhood has many large gaps where there are no sidewalks at all while many of our existing sidewalks are inadequate (too narrow for someone in a walker or a wheelchair) or in serious disrepair.

A couple of things I personally would like to see included in future versions: in the overview, stop whitewashing the history of “the Farm” and acknowledge that it was an antebellum plantation almost certainly built and maintained by enslaved people who were, at best, hired out from one slave owner to another. The Woods Addition part of our neighborhood, referenced in the fact sheet, had firm racial covenants in place part in place by the early 20th century, so it would be especially interesting to see current statistics about racial and ethnic diversity. As of a few years ago, our neighborhood was 80% white. I doubt that has changed very much.

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New Dominion Bookshop

New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, Va

New Dominion Bookshop is an independent bookshop located on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall at 404 East Main St. We are an all-new bookstore, and we host events featuring renowned authors and local writers. To place a book order, to receive personalized book recommendations, or to purchase a gift card, please visit our contact page to speak with our staff.

 

Carpe Donut

Carpe DonutCarpe Donut is a locally owned and operated maker of exquisite organic donuts since 2007.  The only ingredients in our donuts are: organic flour, organic eggs, organic apple cider, organic spices, pure organic sugar, and non-aluminated baking powder. We cook all our donuts in 100% pure soybean oil. No hydrogenation, no trans-fats, no shortening. Continue…