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Charlottesville Area Alliance presses council on transportation, housing and social participation for older residents
Summary
Representatives from the Charlottesville Area Alliance told councilors the group is working on transit access, affordable and accessible housing (including ADUs), and social participation initiatives such as a memory care café and volunteer-ride programs as part of AARP’s age-friendly framework.
Sue Friedman, secretary of the Charlottesville Area Alliance, and Misty Graves, the alliance’s vice chair, briefed the council on a decade of age-friendly work and urged continued city collaboration on transportation, affordable housing and social participation.
Friedman recalled the alliance’s 2017 resolution committing the city to the AARP Age-Friendly Livable Communities Initiative and said the alliance now includes about 85 partners and four elected bodies: Fluvanna County, Albemarle County, the City of Charlottesville and the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission.
Graves described…
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