The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - 36th Annual Toy Lift Going On At Fashion Sq Mall; Nearly 1K UVA Students Join Jim Ryan On Local Run

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

The I Love CVille Show headlines: 36th Annual Toy Lift Going On Now At Fashion Sq Mall Nearly 1K UVA Students Join Jim Ryan On Local Run City To Rehab 2nd & 4th St Downtown Car Crossings Should Vehicles Be Able To Cross Mall On 2nd & 4th St? There Are 529 Homestays (Airbnbs) In City Of CVille How Will Fleisher’s Health Background Affect Houseless? UVA’s Tony Elliott Named ACC Coach Of The Year If You Need CVille Office Space, Contact Jerry Miller Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. Thank you for joining us on a Friday afternoon in downtown Charlottesville. It's a ghost town down here. This snow, which is completely stopped, has absolutely created a ghost town in downtown Charlottesville. So much so that the grand illumination has been canceled, Judah. Is canceled the right word? I guess postpone.

They're going to make an attempt to reschedule it. I'm surprised the grand illumination was canceled today. So a ghost town in downtown Charlestville as we speak. Like and share the show, let us know which headline is most intriguing to you. There are some items that did not make our headlines on screen that I will relay to you, the viewer and listener. On National Signing Day, Sports Illustrated has this tidbit. I found this intriguing.

the beat reporter for Sports Illustrator that covers the University of Virginia, Jackson Caldell. He highlighted something that Tony Elliott said on his National Signing Day press conference that quarterback Chandler Morris may have another year with the program. I'm going to read it verbatim. This is Tony Elliott at the National Signing Day Press Conference. There have been some talks with Chandler of possibly pursuing an extra year. that's still not to be determined, so not going to say if that's going to happen or not. That's Tony Elliott on National Signing Day, with Chandler Morris potentially returning for another year.

He does not commit either way to Chandler Morris coming back to quarterback the Cavaliers. Chandler Morris is about to turn 25 years old. He's about to turn 25 years old. He's making $1.3 million. If I'm Chandler Morris, I consider coming back to the University of Virginia for another season to make some more money because your future in the National Football League is not a guaranteed. That's just my two cents. And if Tony Elliott and Virginia, if they open up the piggy bank and roll out the Brinks truck,

he's making $1.3 million this year, he's going to have to make more than $1.3 million next year. he's earned it right he's earned it we know the duke quarterback is making eight million over two years virginia duke saturday and the ac c championship tomorrow uh you pay him more you get him to come back virginia is going to contend potentially for another an acc championship a lot we're going to cover on the broadcast and speaking to tony elliott he's the acc coach of the year if tony elliott wins tomorrow and beats duke in the ac c championship to earn a birth in the college football playoff tony elliott will probably be your national coach of the year, ladies and gentlemen. And what an incredible story for Tony Elliott, as we like to say in the program, from outhouse to penthouse for the Virginia

head football coach. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast. Studio camera, Judah, Wickhauer. And then after you put the studio camera on screen and the viewers and listeners can see our downtown studio, I Love Seville, the water cooler of content and conversation. We will give some props to Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes. If you want a Hartscape built at your house, at your office, Oak Valley Custom Hartscapes is who you contact. Tim Hess, the local point of contact in the market. Oak Valley Custom Hartscapes will help you actualize and make a reality. Any custom hardscape dreams you have, the return on investment on a hardscape is much more than financial. It's a return on quality of life and experience.

James Watson, Rob Neal, Curtis Shaver, Troy Robinson, Ann Kibbler, welcome to the broadcast, just to name a few. Print Radio on television, welcome to the program. Judah on a two-shot, if you could, I would like to highlight the fact that toy lift is going on now. 36 annual toy lift going on now at Fashion Square Mall. I want you to consider this. There's a bucket truck at Fashion Square Mall. mall. And stakeholders and volunteers and leaders in our community are, what, Tom Powell, are you watching the program, 80, 100 feet high, however tall in the bucket truck. It's much colder up there than it is

on ground level in the parking lot at the mall. No doubt. Are sitting in a bucket truck with the temperatures in the 20s to raise awareness, toys, and holiday cheer. to families and children that do not have gifts to open on Christmas. That's it right there. You have people sitting in a bucket truck or huddling around the bucket truck in a parking lot on a Friday with snow and precipitation and 20 degree temperatures amongst us going on right now. And they're doing it to raise awareness to garner gifts and presents for kids who do. do not have gifts and presents to open on Christmas.

They're currently in need of, there's still need of bikes, 20-inch girl bikes, 26-inch boy bikes, they're doing good work out there. If you have an opportunity to stop by Fashion Square Mall, give some gifts, give some money, ladies and gentlemen, do it. Figuring out a way to give presents to kids that don't have presents to open on Christmas. come on unbelievable story all right a lot to cover of the program juda wickower the lead headline james watson his photo on screen he says tony elliott is about to get paid he's 100% right james watson knows football like the pope knows holy water and james watson says he's about to get

paid about to get a big old contract tony elli this guy very well could be the national coach of the year and have virginia in the college football playoff ladies a gentleman unbelievable story And he says on National Assigning Day that Chandler Morris may come back for another year. Unbelievable story. First headline, what do you got, Jude Wicca? After that one, we've got 1K students going on a run. This is not the last we will hear of Jim Ryan. This week, 1,000 students and faculty members met Jim Ryan for a run for a run.

around the city and around grounds at UVA. A thousand students and faculty met Jim Ryan for a jog, a run with Jim, around grounds in the city. Abigail Spanberger on the near horizon as the governor of Virginia going to nuclear bomb, the Board of Visitors, going to use malfeasance and malpractice to oust Rachel Sheridan and Porter Wilkinson. I do not think this is the last we have heard of Jim Ryan.

We have said on this program for a number of months that Jim Ryan, who is still employed by the University of Virginia, in fact, getting paid not to work right now, getting paid a million dollars not to work as part of his exodus from the president's mansion. We've said for months that this is not the last we're going to hear of Jim Ryan. And now he's got a thousand people running with him in the freezing cold around Charlottesville. How many was average back when he was doing? this. Who knows? They're not counting how many people are running. But a thousand, I would say, is a pretty impressive turnout, though. Certainly. I mean, I don't know

if I would put on my Nikes and run around grounds in the city with anyone, let alone by myself. But he got people to do it just to show support for him. Unbelievable story. Not the last we will see of Jimbo, Ryan. Next headline, Judah Wickhauer, what do you got?

City to rehab second and fourth street downtown car crossings. we will set the stage for the viewers and listeners right they're accepting bids right now from contractors to remodel rehab retrofit rebuild i mean i can continue with the alliteration if i want the second street and fourth street crossings these are the crossings where the vehicles cross the downtown mall my question for you juda wickower why do these crossings continue to get so much hate for some in the community about their existence and my follow question to that

and then I'll get to John Blair's comments. My follow-up question to that is should vehicles even be allowed to cross the pedestrian downtown mall or should it completely be closed off to vehicle traffic? Judah Wickhauer, you go first. I'm curious what they want to do here. What is the plan? I mean, is there... Have you seen them recently?

I've driven over them recently. They're really beat up. I mean, what, bricks? The bricks of the granite are really beat up. Like, they get heavy traffic. And a lot of the traffic, the heavy traffic they get are like the, you know, like work trucks. It's not just like civilians and holiday goers and locals and tourists and students drive on them. It's a lot of like the trucks that are servicing downtown Charlottesville.

Yeah. Heavy trucks. I'm still unclear about what they think is going. The bricks aren't glued in place or anything. They're not cemented in there. And so you would think that by now we would have somebody or somebody, or some way of easily rehabbing the bricks. I mean, is it as little as just, like, basically, a reshuffle?

Do we really? I'm not sure if somebody has the answer to how much it's supposed to cost to, I mean, it's just bricks, right? The bids are now being accepted for the removal and replacement of the brick and granite pavers on the downtown mall crossings on 2nd Street and 4th Street, which will include custom drop inlets, concrete pipes, concrete curbs, and sidewalks. Bids are due on January 9th, and work is scheduled to begin on February 16th. Good reporting from Dave McNair, formerly of the Hook newspaper fame. So if we're getting curbs, does that mean these are going to be like full-on streets crossing the mall, like paved? I would imagine it's going to be what it was.

what it was. Jason Noble's photo on screen, he said the last time I drove over second and fourth street in the downtown mall, it scraped the bejibus out of the bottom of my car. That's from Jason Noble. They do have pretty big speed bumps. They're huge speed bumps. The only speed bumps I've seen locally that are bigger than those speed bumps are the speed bumps at Ix Park that are extremely aggressive at X Park. Three notch, that area. The speed bumps are significantly aggressive. Even after even after they took them down. Have you, well, oh, you've been there recently. Yeah.

You were there Tuesday to go to three nights. There was a third speed bump over there, and I believe the speed bumps were actually bigger than they are now, and they cut them down because people were like... You're ripping out the bottom of our car. I can't go half a mile per hour and still not... Destroy the undercarriage of the vehicle. John Blair watching the program.

I'm curious, do you and Judah feel like there should be crossings at second and fourth? The only legitimate argument I've heard for them is for pharmacy pickups at Timberlakes. But if you close the crossings, couldn't you put a special parking space on the cutoff part of 4th Street for Timberlakes for pharmacy pickup? And he also wants to add, I think the crossing should be closed. Also, God bless the toy lift and all of its volunteers. The late great Wilson Ritchie of the Whiskey Jarr fame, Revolutionary Soup fame, Duna's fame, Cafe Frank fame, the Bebadero fame. Wilson Ritchie has came on the show in the past

and God bless Wilson Ritchie and he said that the second street and fourth street crossings are extremely important. And he highlighted that they were important for a number of reasons. One of the reasons he highlighted was for dropping off of older

folks that want to patronize the restaurants on the downtown mall. They're dropped off there so they don't have to walk a distance to get to the restaurants. He highlighted that the restaurant workers that are working till 2, 3, 4 in the morning, closing down restaurants

are oftentimes either catching Ubers or doing like carpool type pickups on the 2nd and 4th Street crossings as opposed to walking, you know, many blocks to their vehicles which helps with safety,

especially ladies that are leaving restaurants, that they plan and strategize to be picked up on the 2nd and 4th street crossings, as opposed to walking many blocks to a car away from the restaurant when their shift is over. He also highlighted the importance of 2nd and 4th Street for the vendors that provide goods of any kind. Cisco, performance foods, these trucks we see often crossing 2nd and 4th Street as they bring food into the various restaurants to then be sold and served.

We know Scotty, our favorite UPS guy, uses the second on 4th Street crossing to deliver UPS boxes up and down in the downtown mall. So they are used. Yeah, some of those vehicles, I don't know if people can imagine this, but imagine, you know, Imagine trucks, you know, trucks used to drop off, you know, refrigerated trucks, what not. Imagine them trying to back out of one of these half streets that come partway to the, to Main Street. And it would be a nightmare. I understand. I don't really understand why people don't want the crossings.

I don't know of any Matthew Gillicott of the Gillicott gang in Livable Seville is the one leading the charge for shutting down the pedestrian mall and making it 100% pedestrian and not having the vehicle crossings. I don't see the reason for that. Is there a... Well, we can point, you know, I'm trying to cover every side of this here.

Heather, higher way. But A, that didn't happen actually on the crossing. It happened because you were able to drive across the mall. If there was no ability to drive across the mall, Fields' as Dodge Charger would never have plowed into the group of people on 4th Street, now Heather Hireway. I'm not sure I agree with that statement, but... If there was concrete center blocks preventing a vehicle to get on 4th Street and cross the mall, there's no way that would have happened. I mean, as morbid as it is to talk about it, I think he hit that crowd before he was on the downtown mall. They were still on the street.

Before, you know, before you actually get onto the down, I could be wrong, but I seem to remember in photographs there were cars parked along the side, which would mean that what happened did not happen on the downtown mall. And you're correct in the fact that he may not have turned down that street to try to cross the mall there. But I think we're splitting hairs. We are splitting hairs. Easily could have happened somewhere else if there was no crossing on the downtown mall. Aside from that, is there anything else that has ever happened in one of these crossings? Not that I know of. Not that I know of either.

Yeah, I've been here 25 years, not that I know that. I'm not sure why there's all of a sudden an urgency to, I don't know, what, protect people. It seems, you know, those, we've mentioned the massive mounds that are the, that are the, you know, the speed bumps. And I think they do a pretty good job of deterring people from, you know, zipping across the downtown. speed bumps are the most aggressive speed bumps locally. I cannot imagine hitting one of those going faster than like one or two miles before. Yeah, yeah. You would rip your undercarriage out.

Vanessa Parkhill disagrees. She says yes to keeping the vehicle crossings on the mall for all the reasons that Wilson Ritchie shared. And Wilson Ritchie, you know, the godfather of the mall in a lot of ways. Georgia Gilmer pushes back on you. Judah Wickhauer, the car went from Market Street over the mall and into Water Street. That's what I remember as well. the charger went from Market Street. We're on Fourth Street right here.

Here's Heather Higher Way, right here, right? So it went from Market Street, right? Down 4th Street, over the mall, and onto Water Street. So if brick cylinders or concrete cylinders or a blockade of concrete poles of some kind were preventing the crossing of vehicles on the mall, The charger would never have crossed the mall. So he hit the crowd on the other side?

Yeah. Okay. The photos seem to tell a different story, but I certainly could be wrong. You know, I'm looking at the photos. Okay. Like I said, I could be wrong. I would encourage just to Google of Heather Higherway. In fact, Heather Hire Memorial Park.

I don't know if the viewers and listeners can see what, obviously, this is very rudimentary here. This is on the fly. Can they see this? Yes or no? I think they can probably see that. This is on the Fourth and Water Street there, right? Yeah, it looks like it. This is fourth in water. And how we know it's Fourth and Water is on the background is the railroad underpass.

You see it in the far background? So that was the Charger crossing the Mall. Georgia Gilmer, we appreciate you watching and listening to the program. You know, Gilligan, I will say on the program, he and I are like oil and water. What are the two opposites? What are opposites out there in the world? Night and day? Night and day.

Gold? I don't think he has the best ideas. Jason Noble does not either. In this particular circumstance, I see the pros of shutting down 2nd and 4th Street. I also see the pros of keeping it open. I don't see the pros in shutting it down. If you pulled the business owners on the downtown mall, the business owners on the downtown mall would say keep it open.

Probably. I still have not heard a credible reason why you would close them. Vanessa Parkhill said if everyone stayed home, no one would have died downtown on August 12th. The tragic death of heaven. their hire is not the right reason to ban traffic crossing the mall her death was not a simple traffic incident 100% i agree 100% with that statement um all right next uh topic well either way this is the news and the show is entertain educate and enlighten and the news is this that charltsville

city hall is accepting bids from contractors to replace the brick and granite pavers on the downtown mall crossings of second street and fourth street the project will include custom drop inlets concrete pipes concrete curves and sidewalks and bids are due on the ninth of january with work scheduled to begin in the 16th of february next headline juda what do you got i love a visual of what they have in mind i have a visual okay i mean i have a architectural rendering i don't think it's going to really help um let me see if i can No, this wouldn't help with the viewers and listeners. We could potentially talk about it on Monday with some of these renderings.

This isn't going to help, is it? These are just architectural plans. That's hard to decipher. I don't think they're going to see that. Yeah. That's the extent of what I have. I can't tell what that's supposed to look like. Yeah.

Next headline, what do you got? 529 homestays. I like stat. I like stats. It seems like what? say? It seems a little small, but... In the mid-week, mid-week,

city hall had a public input meeting that was led by neighborhood development services, and a number of things came from this neighborhood development services, public input meeting, mainly that they're going to enforce Airbnb's, VRBOs,

verbos, homestays, short-term rentals. They're going to do, try to do a better job at enforcing them. Okay, there's a number of Airbnb's short-term rentals that are operating illegally. No doubt. Where the city is not collecting taxes, the owners of the Airbnbs, the operators are doing it outside the law. Yeah. Something that struck me from this meeting, 529 exist in Charlottesville.

You think that seems light? This is strictly city limits. Yeah, I know. I may be, my mind may be expanding that to Almar County. Yeah. that's 529 that they know of 529 that they know of that's right so content or conversation

for your cocktail and chakouterie party this weekend there's 529 Airbnb's in the city and and further content and conversation for you the Charlottesville City Hall is committed to further enforcing the legality of these Airbnbs

permitting, insurance. Wasn't it changing the permit fee from like 100 to 500, except it's going to be for three years instead of one year? That's correct. The permit fee for the city that you'll pay the city was $100 a year. Now it's $500, but that $500 permit is going to last three years where the $100 permit only lasts for one year.

Yeah. So they've raised it from $100 a year to what is that, like a buck, 50 bucks 60 and change 320, $3.20, $4.80 was at $1.65? $6.65? Something like that. So they've raised it $66 $66 a year, basically.

And they could cap it at eight guests per homestay. And they're going to go balls to the wall with enforcement. And there's deep throats talked about this in the past. There's a boatload of software that's out there, third-party

software that you can use, that can scrub these short-term rental websites where the bookings happen and offer a data set for City Hall that they can use to police and enforce rules and regulations. They are not doing that now, which is travesty. Someone's always going to operate in the gray area. Next headline. What do you got? Let's see. How will Fleischer's health background affect homeless? New City Council, new city councilor, Jen Fleischer, is replacing Brian Pinkston in January. Her background is mental health. She's a huge mental health advocate. She makes her living in the mental health space. I think it's 2026. The year 2026 in a lot of ways is going to be determined by what

Charlottesville, Virginia does with enforcing policy on homelessness, in particular in the downtown mall. They spent $6.2 million to buy. a massive brick building on Holiday Drive, and they're going to spend millions more. The final number will surpass $10 million on building a homeless campus center

right off the bypass on Holiday Drive. I'm not opposed to that, but I'm certainly not convinced that that's going to be a whole lot of help for the death. And you've made very compelling arguments. In fact, maybe you've even

persuaded by mine. So I will say this, if they do not Charlottesville City Council enforce the no camping, no sleeping on the downtown mall policy, nor no storing your belongings on the downtown mall or public places, you are encouraged to do it in the homeless center. And if they don't put policy in play that empowers the police to enforce this, then the $10 million plus dollars they spent on Holiday Drive is a waste. And I'm curious to see how Jen Fleischer, who's replacing Brian Pinkston, her background, how she makes her living is mental health in that space, how that mental health background is going to impact her decision-making, her votes, her policy, her mindset on homelessness and sheltering in public places. Yeah, I would guess that she would be a 100% no vote. no matter what, against any type of ordinance.

I'm not sure if I think that that Pinkston could have been talked around. I think Pinkston would have been much more likely to Greenlight the no camping, no sheltering, no storing your belongings in public places than Jen Flesher. I do too. I think there's not a chance that she would ever vote for something like that. And I inclined to potentially agree with you. And then is the next thing, five counselors, three then determined policy, that Michael Payne and Natalie Orchran are going to combine with Jen Fleischer on this with a three of five vote. I could definitely see that.

Yeah. And time will tell. We are three weeks away, four weeks away from Fleischer taking over Pinkston and for a new mayor for Charlottesville, Virginia. He's got Natalie Oshran. I got Michael Payne. Keith Smith's got one. Don't Diego Wade. I think my hunch says Keith Smith's going to be one and nine and prop bets, one win, nine losses. You have a very good shot of winning this. You're currently

0 and 1 on prop bets. I believe my prop bet record is 9 and 1. But I think you may have be favored to slightly win this prop bet. I have Michael Payne. You have Natalie Oshar. Do you think it's between Payne and Oshar? Yeah, probably. Next headline. What do you got? let's see um Tony Elliott Tony elli elevating Charlottesville

ACCC coach of the year unbelievable right yeah going into this season over the last three years yeah who would have thought he had the least amount of wins and of any college football team

and power football speaking of sports betting I wouldn't be surprised if there were people betting on when he was going to get canned. Oh, 100%. Yours included. Yours truly. I thought Tony Allen going into this year was going to be his last hurrah. Now he's playing Duke tomorrow in the ACC championship.

And if he beats Duke in the ACC championship, the man is probably, ladies and gentlemen, the national coach of the year. No doubt. And on National Signing Day this week, Tony Elliott was talking about the possibility of Chandler Morris returning for another year as the starting quarterback of the University of Virginia football team. This is a wild time we live in. A wild time where the basketball team beats the breaks off of Texas,

and then 72 hours later, the football team plays Duke in Charlotte and the ACC Championship, and Virginia, 10 and 2 overall, is a four-point favorite to win. That line opened at two and a half. Four-point favorite for Virginia to win on a neutral site. Wild times. Eight o'clock kick, national TV, ABC,

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