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Events

• March 28 – Waldo Jaquith launches cvillenews.com
• May 16 – Albemarle Board of Supervisors adopts the Neighborhood Model concept as part of the Comprehensive Plan
• July 24 – The Jefferson Area Bicycling and Walking Advisory Committee approves the Bicycle, Pedestrian, and Greenways Plan

• September 1 – Supporting alternative transportation, the Dave Matthews Band contributed $4,500 to its hometown's Free-bikes program, which repairs and repaints old bicycles and makes them available to anyone who needs a ride. "A biker can pick up one of the bright yellow two-wheelers on a city street, ride it to his or her destination and leave it for the next rider", according to city official Maurice Jones.
• October 2 – Charlottesville City Council holds a retreat in the SMARTROOM at 213 West Main Street. Among their accomplishments this year, Councilors listed establishment of the fare free trolley, adoption of the 2001 Comprehensive Plan, the commissioning of the Torti Gallas report on economic corridors, acquisition of the National Ground Intelligence Center building, and the yellow bikes program.

Deaths

• June 13 – Alice Jackson dies on this day. A life-long educator at various Black colleges throughout the country, Jackson became the first Black applicant to the University of Virginia in August of 1935 (her application was denied on the basis of race and "other good and sufficient reasons," according to a contemporary issue of the Richmond-Times Dispatch.