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

 

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. And the winter storms that hit in both December and late January threw off the whole schedule.

Please See Leaf Collection Service Restart for the latest as of 2/17/26.

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.

Little High Neighborhood Fact Sheet [Read more…]

Neighborhood Bonfire November 10, 2024

All Little High neighborhood residents, friends, family, visitors, and persons of good will are invited to a bonfire hosted by the Little High neighborhood association on Sunday, November 10, 7-9pm in the backyard of 1201 Little High (on the corner of Little High and 12th streets). In addition to the fire, the neighborhood association will provide hot cider, s’mores-making supplies, and a few extra chairs. You should bring yourselves and maybe a folding chair in case we don’t have enough. This is a lovely opportunity to come and hang out with and get to know your neighbors. Please join us!

Progress on sidewalks at last?

13th on the corner with East JeffersonCity Manager Sam Sanders has taken seriously the complaints of many Charlottesville residents about the lack of adequate sidewalks and he has made sidewalk construction a top priority. An adequate sidewalk network is essential as the city’s population density increases while the need to reduce our carbon footprint remains imperative. We all have to walk more, and now the city is working to take away our excuses.

Here is a link to the city’s list of sidewalk projects and the priority assigned to each. We certainly aren’t getting everything we wanted for our neighborhood but we don’t begrudge other neighborhoods getting better sidewalks and something is better than nothing. Check it out and decide for yourself.

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…