Good Charlottesville City Programs - Little High Neighborhood Association

Invasive Tree Walk

November 23, 2024

Members of Charlottesville’s Invasive Plant Partnership (CHIPP) will be in our neighborhood Sunday, November 24 to walk with neighbors and identify invasive plants and discuss strategies for dealing with them. The group will gather at 1137 Meriwether Street at 3:30pm.

This is a great opportunity to learn about what invasive species are and why they are a problem.

** All neighborhood and nearby residents are invited and welcome to join us! **

For more information, check out the City of Charlottesville’s website on how you can help contain invasive species and help regrow a healthy urban forest.

Click for a list of invasive trees and plants in Virginia

City Curbside Leaf Collection begins November 4

October 23, 2024

Note: The following is adapted from a City of Charlottesville Press Release on 10/22/24 and the leaf collection page on the city’s website.

Charlottesville leaf collections start on Monday, November 4th. Please follow the City’s guidelines and make a note of the collection schedule for your address. The leaves collected by the City of Charlottesville are taken to a local farm where they are turned into compost that is used by area residents, farms, and landscaping companies.

No bags, please

Leaves will be collected loose at the curb (no bags). Residents should pile un-bagged leaves as close to the curbside/street as possible. Please do not block sidewalks or bike lanes but you can put them in on-street parking areas no sooner than three days before pickup is scheduled.

If you are unsure where to put your leaves for pickup you can call the City’s hotline at 434-970-3830, email us, or snap a picture and send us a tweet @CvillePW with your questions.

Little High Neighborhood schedule

For the purposes of leaf collection, some of our neighborhood is in Zone A and some of it is in Zone C. City leaf collection trucks will come by at any point during the week that your zone is scheduled so you should try to have all your leaves gathered at the curb for the first day.

Zone A

Nov. 4-8

Dec. 9-14

Jan. 21-24

Zone C

Nov. 18-22

Jan. 6-10

February 10-14

The leaf collection schedule for the Little High neighborhood — The dividing line within our neighborhood between Zone A and Zone C is East Market Street.

Text Alerts

If you want a reminder, you can sign up for text alerts reminding you of when your collection week is coming up. Text your street address (no city, state, or zip) to 434-771-0251 and put “leaf pickup” on the next line.

Drop-off location

Miss leaf collection day or can’t wait? City residents (no contractors of business entities) can take their leaves to 1505 Avon Street Extended, Charlottesville, VA 22902 on Saturdays from 10am-3pm during leaf collection season (Nov 4 – Feb 14).

No bags or containers will be accepted so it’s recommended that you use your recycling container or a large trash can to bring your leaves in.

Or deal with it yourself

You don’t have to rake your leaves according to the City’s schedule and guidelines — you can always just let them lie or compost them yourself.

City of Charlottesville transparency portal

October 7, 2024

As part of City Manager Sam Sanders commitment to improving communication between residents and city government, the City of Charlottesville website now includes a “Transparency Portal.” Please check it out and see for yourself if it includes everything you think it should, is easy enough to use, etc. You can contact the City Manager’s office with questions or concerns — and let the neighborhood association know, too, so we can keep track of the city’s responsiveness to residents.

Upcoming Household Hazardous Waste and Special Collection Events

September 4, 2024

Note: This post is adapted from a press release from the City of Charlottesville dated 9/4/24

The Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) is offering Charlottesville and Albemarle residents the opportunity bring specific types of household items to the Ivy Waste & Recycling Center for FREE disposal. These special collections days are a great opportunity to rid homes of hazardous waste, such as pesticides and cleaners, as well as household items like refrigerators, mattresses, furniture, and tires. For full details, please visit: http://www.rivanna.org/hhw/.

The specific types of household items listed below can be taken to the Ivy Recycling Center (address below) for free disposal only on the dates listed below.

Ivy Solid Waste & Recycling Center,
4576 Dick Woods Road,
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Electronic waste collection day (Registration Required*)

*Registration is only required for Electronic Waste Collection Day.*

Saturday, 9/14/24, 9am – 3pm

Household hazardous waste collection days

Friday, 9/20/24, 9am – 3pm
Saturday, 9/21/24, 9am – 3pm

Special collection days

Furniture/Mattresses: Saturday, 9/28/24, 8:30am -4pm
Appliances: Saturday, 10/5/24, 8:30am – 4pm. Household Appliances Include ONLY: refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, stoves, furnaces, water heaters, air conditioners, dehumidifiers, heat pumps, microwaves, toasters.
Tires (oversize tires will not be accepted; maximum of 12 tires per household) Saturday, 10/12/24, 8:30am – 4pm

Progress on sidewalks at last?

May 6, 2024

City 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.

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