The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Is The Trump "Compact" A Good Thing For UVA?; Are You Happy With Direction Of Higher Education?

Episode Date: October 17, 2025

The I Love CVille Show headlines: Is The Trump “Compact” A Good Thing For UVA? Are You Happy With Direction Of Higher Education? Will CVille Zoning Lawsuit Be Settled Out Of Court? Cause Of Glenmore Home Explosion Determined CVille City Median Home Values Down 6% YTD Is Belmont The Top Performing Dining Area In City? UVA Could Become Bowl Eligible On Saturday 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.

Nick Capacico. Share the show, guys. Share the show. We work hard for you. Good Friday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville Show. Cheers to you. It's Friday. It's the end of the week. Ice coffee in my, I think, is this a 40 ounce Yeti? I think it's a 40 ounce Yeti. It might be 32 ounces. I have a Yeti with me on my person every single day. And every morning filled to the brim with ice coffee. A lot to cover on the program. The deadline is looming. The deadline is upon us for the Donald Trump Compact. And ladies of gentlemen, the University of Virginia is under Donald Trump's microscope. He's basically got a list of criteria. and this list of criteria, ladies and gentlemen,

some would call them demands, others would call them, I'd say the word demand is for edicts, orders, all in the same category, that if the University of Virginia does not follow, it will risk and lose federal funding. It's a 10-point plan, and this 10-point plan demands the elimination of diversity, considerations from admissions and hiring, just the eradication of DEI.

This 10-point plan demands that international students, the number of international students enrolled at universities be cut back. This 10-point plan demands that tuition be frozen, the cost of tuition. And this 10-point plan also demands that the data of graduate earnings, what they're paid post-graduating be shared. And boy, oh boy, the interim president who did his rounds on local media this morning, Paul Mahoney is in for a hornet's nest of a discussion.

Donald Trump has leverage over the University of Virginia, and that deadline with his leverage and federal funding is Monday. We're going to unpack this story from every angle on the I Love Seville show today. We're going to talk on today's show about the zoning lawsuit. Judah, you'll set the table in the who, what, when, where, why with fantastic reporting from Sean Tubbs. This lawsuit may be settled, Judah.

Yeah. The city of Charlottesville is basically saying we probably should have done a V-dot study. Now, how a traffic study. Now, what the city of Charlottesville is going to do is say, oh, we'd rather just spend the money on the traffic study that see this through, through next year because it's going to save taxpayer money. The reality is the city of Charlottesville would not have been in this position, had it of dotted the eyes and crossed the T's from the beginning and done this traffic study. We'll have the discussion on the show, fantastic reporting from Sean Tubbs,

on the new zoning ordinance lawsuit that may be settled out of court and may offer a sense of calmness or consistency or pre-tops. predictability to zoning and development in Charlottesville, Virginia. And speaking of the city, how many of you viewers and listeners live in the city of Charlottesville? I live in Amarral County. Judah lives just over the city line in Almorel County. If you're a homeowner in the city of Charlottesville, you are median home values are down 6% year-to-date compared to the exact same period.

last year. And this is happening at a time where neighboring jurisdiction, Al Morrow County, median values, same type of housing, single-family detached homes, are 10% roughly up in median value. Think about this when you're enjoying your cocktails, your charcutory, and your conversation this weekend. Why are the city of Charlottesville median home values on single-family detached homes, year-to-date, 2025 versus 2024, down 6% when Al-Maro counties are up nearly 10%. Is city council even aware that this metric is heading in the wrong direction? I want to have that conversation on today's program. We have some clarity on today's show on what called the cause the Glenmore,

housing explosion. Remember a Holman Glenmore, was it about a month, two months ago, Judah? Yeah, roughly. Eviscerated, literally looked like a war zone in Keswick, a propane explosion, caused the sad death of one Glenmoranian and the significant body burning of another Glenmorian who is recovering in the hospital as we speak. It also sadly caused 12, other homes around this explosion on Furndown to be uninhabitable, and I'm told it damaged this explosion an additional nearly 40 homes in Glenmore from a foundation standpoint or from a structure standpoint, a cosmetic standpoint, a engineering standpoint. We're going to offer the

cause for that explosion that is now out, and it's just a cacophony, a cornucopia of bad luck. That story on the I Love Seville show. I want to ask or further have the conversation on today's program. I wet your appetite yesterday on the Belmont dining district. It has become a collection of, of, I mean, delectable dining eateries. I mean, Belmont, has it become the dining epicenter of the city of Charlottesville? And you know what's bananas with that? I've been in this community for 25 years. When I first got here, you didn't go to Belmont for fear of safety.

My second year removed from the University of Virginia, this was circa 2000 and 20, 2005, yeah, 2005, I moved to Belmont. I lived on Little Graves behind Spudnuts. Arthur Finer, our landlord. Tall Tom lived in this house. Mad Dog, Kenny Brown, lived in this house. And my buddy Shannon lived in the attic, climbed a rope ladder to get to his,

get to his non-HVA-seed mattress on a pine floor in the attic, literally climbed a rope ladder. I think we were spending like $2.75 a month at rent at Arthur Refiners' house, I think it was 208 Little Graves. Used to stumble back and forth from the downtown mall. I remember distinctly one night choosing to go to Moss Tapas, which was the only dining destination in Belmont. at the time we went all the way down little graves in belmont it's a side street off of graves and at the end of little graves if you know belmont there's this dirt road it's this an access road it's not even paved it's riddled with potholes two cars cannot get by on this dirt road heck one car can barely get by in this dirt road we we are stumbling to mastsopas after pre-gaming at little graves

and stumbling to mason on this pothole riddled dirt road Shannon and I in there were two or three guys huddled in a corner behind two houses on this pothole riddled dirt road clearly smoking crack each with 40s in their hands cold 45s in their hands huddled around behind a house the house the house had no idea these guys these unsavory fellows were we're sitting on paint cans or just sitting on the on on the dusty uh crusty unpaved access road they see us as we're walking by them in downtown in belmont trying to make our way to mott stop us from little graves one of them gets up while the other one is legitimately roasting a crack pipe the one gets up pulls out a switch blade out of his pocket. Does that switchblade movement to get the

blade ready? And then the three guys approach us as we're just looking to get some Papp's blue ribbon and stare at pretty girls at Moss Tapas when we were 23, 24 years old and approach us with the switch

blade. At the time, Shannon decides to do this crazy karate kid crane movement with his hands and legs, making loud movements and gestures, a startling movement that even took me aback, and it gave the three crackheads some pause, and actually had the switch-bladed yielding and wielding crackhead lower his hand for a moment, because it was a move just rooted in utter chaos and ludicry. And as they paused and blew out the smoke from

roasting the crack pipe and putting the switchblade down, Shannon and I, I'm wearing rainbow flip-flops. He's got rubber flip-flops on. It's like 15 degrees outside. We sprint down the dusty access road in Belmont and rush to Mastapa to breathe a sigh of relief as we then proceed to kill 12 PBR blue ribbons amongst us, had some bacon-wrapped dates and said, Are we really going to take that way home? And that night we took the long way back to 208 Little Graves and not the dirt road access. True story.

Absolute true story. My point is, at 20 years ago, you didn't go to downtown Belmont at night. 20 years ago, downtown Belmont was not yuppie and gentrified and an epicenter of 700,900,000, 1 million plus homes. It was working class. I've told the story in previous shows at the end of Little Graves where we lived

my buddies and I for a handful of years there was a working class group of guys that lived in a house that had a shed in the back of a home at the Little Graves and somehow they put a 7 foot pool table in the back of this shed. I played a lot of pool

had a pool table growing up in Williamsburg, Virginia, a 9 foot pool table with very tight pockets a Peter Vitale pool table spent our shooting pool on that, got very good, was winning pool tournaments in Williamsburg at the corner pocket, my dad would take me there, much to my mom's disappointment on Tuesday and Wednesday nights to play eight ball and nine ball, and was routinely as a 12, 13, 14 year old winning 50, 60 bucks in pool tournaments. My mom ended up taking me one time, and she's like,

why, oh, why does this kid want to spend Tuesday and Wednesday nights at a pool hall? And at the time, you could smoke in the pool hall. It was always clouded with smoke. And she saw me and the unsavory folks at this pool hall never again was allowed after my mom took me to play at the corner pocket at these tournaments while a freshman, sophomore in high school. I got so good at pool that that was how I started paying my way through UVA. Pool, running a sports book, working at Ruby Tuesdays, hustling foosball at the Greenskeeper, anything possible to help cover the cost of four years at the University of Virginia. I started playing pool at this shed at the end of the Belmont Little Graves neighborhood with this working class, this blue-collar

group of fellas. They were pounding Budwisers. They had a small fridge in the shed, shooting pool. Next thing you know, one of these guys pulls a white bag out of his pocket and starts chopping things up literally on the rail of the pool table. And downtown, and and little graves, like four in the afternoon, chop it up lines. I'm like, what have I got myself into here? I don't really know these fellas. My dog, Lucy, the German Shepherd Chow Chow Chowmix, is running around the table. I proceeded to sink the eight ball, finish the game, and said, you know what?

I think I need to feed Lucy, the beautiful brown dog here, because she's getting hungry and kindly excused myself. Downtown Belmont, Belmont in general, 20 years ago was the place you didn't go. now you see mas tapas you see bell you see the local you see the soon to open uh jervi a steakhouse or a great american restaurant whatever you want to call it um and and it was it was it was it was tomas and corn with masts tapas that led the charge then adam fraser gets in the mix with building the local the local i watched adam fraser who i think still lives on graves certainly lived on graves when i lit on little graves i watched adam fraser the restaurateur the owner of the local build this restaurant from scratch from the ground up with his own hands.

I think La Tassa with Melissa Easter had a lot to do with the birth or the positive momentum or downtown Belmont. I used to work from La Tasa all the time when I was living in Belmont. And now you have an abundance of riches in Belmont. Tavala? I mean, just an abundance and riches down there. I want to have the discussion. Is that now the go-to dining?

destination on on on on today's show a lot to cover on the broadcast including the university of virginia's ability to become bowl eligible tomorrow juda wickover will give some love to charlesville sanitary supply 61 consecutive years in business charlesville sanitary supply ladies a gentleman on east high street online at charlesful sanitary supply.com free delivery within the market free delivery no big box website will offer you free delivery within market uh same day free delivery. Charlottesville Sanitary Supply will do that. Anything you need, sanitary supplies, meal of vacuums, anything from a swimming pool standpoint, including water testing, a mechanic on site, John Vermillion and the Vermillion family, five generations strong in Almaro County in their

business, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, three generations strong, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. Let's keep these businesses in operation by supporting them, folks. Support them. Studio camera, Judah Wickhauer. I met Judah Wickhauer about the time that I met Curtis Schae I think Curtis Shaver, a friend of the program, is watching the show right now. Curtis, I met somebody that knows you through the disc golf scene. A guy by the name of Noah talked with Noah yesterday. I've known him for some time. And he said, he's going to do some disc golf this weekend?

He said, do you know my friend Curtis Schaefer? He goes, oh, I know Curtis. So you might see Noah around the sticks, around the links, tossing some disc. I met you at Lazy Parrott. This conversation came up with Jeff Gaffty on Monday. How'd you guys meet? I met Judah about 17 years ago

this was at the Lazy Parrot Grill the 1.0 iteration not even when Lazy Parrot Grill expanded and before it expanded to its current location in the Food Line Shopping Center on Pantops it was this like very tiny shotgun style restaurant

at the back of the Pantops shopping center and then Kevin Kirby decided to expand the restaurant into the storefront next to it and created a non-smoking dining section but before he expanded into the storefront next to it for the not smoking dining you know the dining portion of the restaurant he literally had this little like almost like a shotgun house like this very skinny very narrow passageway that was just a fantastic location

sports wings cheap booze two dollar yeagers something every night i love seville trivia live music. I mean, you name it. It was the spot. And it really did a great job of becoming this like melting pot for Charlottesvillians, Almoreal counties.

Hell, Fluvana Countyans and Louisiana counties because they didn't have a lot of bars or driving to the lazy parrot on Pantops, up Pantops Mountain, down 250. I mean, these guys were like four or five Yeager Meisters and a bucket of Budweiser's deep and then heading back.

That was a wild time. A wild time. That's where I met this guy. he's chain smoke and camel lights was it camel lights had a bucket of coronas in front of him had his iPad with a stylus in front of him and is doing graphic design I'm like dude what you were talented

you were talented Savannah College of Art and Design Judah Wickhauer sitting at one of those tabletops remember they had the colorful tabletops with parrots on them yeah of all different kind of colors yeah he's pounding coronas hitting lung butter sticks doing graphic designed on an iPad, I said, can I see your gallery of photos? And he slides through the gallery of photos. This is 17 years ago, Judah, almost 18 years ago. And I said, you know what? Talk to me

about your work, your job. I could tell you were unhappy with what you were doing at the time. That's fair. So, why don't you come work for the shop? Once you come work for the shop, one of the first projects we worked on 16, 17 years ago, Walter Slossky's the Shabine, website. And Sloski comes to me, he's like, I, and catering website. What's that? And the catering website. The catering outfit. Yeah. And Sloski's like, I want to launch the catering outfit. I want to get the Shabine's digital and social media brand up in order. Can you help me with this, Jerry? I'm like,

let's do it. Let's rock and roll. One of our, the second client we ever had was Annie McClure, who's opening a Belmont restaurant, the Jervie. Also, at the time he had, talk about a fantastic second client. At the, the first client was whimsies. Jesse, the daughter of the owner of Wimsy's, Jesse Rogers, she was, approached us about building Wimsy's website. But second client at the time, he had the Greenskeeper, three Jabber walking, all the same restaurant, all rebranded. George and Teresa owned Greenskeeper first. He bought it from Georgia and Teresa. He had the Biltmore. He had the Virginian. He had West Main, and he was

opening Citizen Burger Bar. Right? Fantastic second client. Sloski was great, too. He was so focused on running his restaurant. He didn't really want to mess with the digital and the social. So we rock the digital and social forum, help him launch the catering outfit. It's a fantastic time to be a small business owner. It was 2025, 2025, 26, 2027, 28, when your focus was digital media advertising and branding.

Because at the time, all digital media branding and advertising was posting pictures of food on, line or how can you hook up with guys and gals? And I knew very early that this was an opportunity to tell a story for your business. And that's what we help folks do. And that's how Judah got a part of the Miller organization that is, you know, may have two, you know, goodness gracious, almost 18 years old? I mean, it's absolutely wild. All right, a lot to cover on the program. I got sidetracked over there going down memory lane. Maria Marshall Barnes and Bill McChesney watching the program. I'm going to get to your guys as comments on a matter of moments. If you like the show, hammer the like button.

Hammer the like button, if you like the show. Judah Wickhauer, Trump's deadline is Monday. Four universities have already said, no, thanks. Should the University of Virginia say, give the one-finger salute to Donald Trump? Should the University of Virginia and interim President Paul Mahoney give the one-finger salute to the Trump compact and say, these 10 suggestions aren't suggestions. They are you leveraging federal funding, extorting federal funding potentially against us to get us to become a university that you want us to be,

that does not match the university that our faculty and our students want us to be or become? I say that calling it giving in the finger is a little bit harsh, but I don't think they should go along with it, and I don't think there's a whole lot of chance they will. Okay, let me ask you this question. Is the Trump Compact good for the University of Virginia, as you're putting lower thirds on screen? Is the Trump Compact good for the University of Virginia?

Judah Wickhauer, your take on that? I don't have a problem with most of what the compact is asking of universities, and I'm sure that most of them are following some of these rules, already. In fact, I think part of the problem that this current administration had with what was going on at UVA

and probably other schools as well is that the DEI initiatives that they had set up were apparently basically against the law. The law states that you can't discriminate.

So setting up something where you're, I don't know, discriminating in the other direction is, you know, just as egregious as, you know, discriminating against someone for, you know, for whatever reason. Overall, there's 10 points, and I don't really have a problem with most of them, but I think it's just overreach in trying to get universities to sign this. And four universities, including USC and Penn, have already said, no thanks. And I believe the administration has opened the compact up to other schools outside of the original nine that were presented the deal. And I find it hard to believe that any universities are going to raise their hands.

Yeah, yeah, we'll join. Okay, I'll try a different approach. I'm going to try a different approach. Parents that are watching the program, are you pleased or happy with the direction? that four-year universities are heading. Parents that are watching the program, how many of you think that colleges and universities have become entirely too expensive?

Students that are watching the program, how many of you are prepared to get a quarter of a million dollars in debt for a degree that may pay you $50, $60,000 a year to start? At an interest rate that's six, seven, eight, 9%. How many of you, 18, 17, 19, 20, 21-year-olds want to be a quarter million dollars or more in debt and have tuition payments that follow you well into adulthood?

Parents that were watching the program, how many of you are frustrated that college applications and college admissions are not strictly merit-based? Not strictly based. Not strictly based. on ABCs and Ds and Fs, extracurriculars, athletics, and essay writing, or instead may offer an edge or advantage to a young man or young woman that is born into a certain family or into a certain socioeconomic situation. Parents that are watching this program, are you comfortable with your kids putting their futures on the line for a degree that may or may not yield earning potential because that earning potential is kept under wraps by the universities your child is applying to? Of course, four-year universities and colleges want to keep the earning potential, the average

salaries of their students with the degrees that they're pursuing on the hush-hush. Why would universities and colleges not want the public judah to to know what the salaries associated with certain degrees are because it might affect it might affect people coming to the school it would impact the pursuit of so many degrees you want to find out that that a philosophy degree is going to pay you 35k coming out of college and you're a quarter million dollars in debt yeah you want to find out in art history, a music appreciation, a jazz appreciation degree, a pottery, pottery degree is going to give you an opportunity to make 25K, 30K, 35K, or force you into pursuing graduate study work to deepen your debt load? Why do you think these universities and colleges don't want to tell you how much these

degrees pay once you complete the degree. Of course they want to keep it on the hush-hush. Are aspects of the Trump compact advantageous for our society? Are aspects of the Trump compact positive for parents

and kids? Absolutely. I'd say there's a lot of positives. Absolutely they are. Imagine the courage you need to say in Charlottesville what I just said. Absolutely they are. Is what Trump is doing, overreach, however, is what Trump is doing almost akin or synonymous to negotiating a trade deal

or a tariff deal with China? He's going about negotiating with universities and colleges in America as if he was negotiating a deal with communist China, utilizing leverage and fear, extortion, retribution. He's using the stick, not the carrot. Bingo. If he had gone about this a different way where it's like, you're going to agree to these 10 points that I'm, I put in the table, and your deadline is this coming Monday, or I'm not going to give you any damn money. And it's going to happen at a time when colleges and universities have a boatload of headwinds. So you're going to do what I say, or you're going to go out of business. And I'm not saying all of them are going to go out of business, but this is going to implement. pack universities and colleges, we should get an exact figure of what the University of Virginia gets in federal funding. I will tell you the folks that I speak with, and I speak with chairmen's of departments, engineering, physics, math business, com school, econ, talk to

them all. A lot of them watch the program. A lot of them DM us, email us, that say this federal funding, and they're afraid to say it, they're afraid to say it for fear of retribution. for fear being stigmatized, but a lot of this federal funding is paramount for keeping graduate students and TAs and research heading in the right direction. I've told the story

multiple times on this program of needing to change the locks on a biotechnology lab. And as part of being behind on rent and changing the locks of a biotechnology lab, the result was

hundreds of thousands of dollars of biotechnology equipment was now in our possession and the court indicated God, this tenant is so far behind on rent you guys get to keep their stuff and I'm charged with the task with my client I'm charged with the task

you were in that meeting remember when we negotiated the deal of this meeting we don't even say which client right off the downtown mall where the inventory list was provided for the biotechnology equipment, itemized by serial number, and I'm like, all right, what are we going to do here? Negotiated my rate to move this equipment.

Did a 50-50 split. We got to work. And in about four or five weeks, it was about six figures in compensation by moving biotechnology equipment. on the I Love Seville Network and calling my contacts, my Rolodex, my phone, Instagram stories, Facebook posts, emails, in-person conversation, hustling, making something out of nothing. That compensating, nice little payday for the firm. Kept my client happy, continue to work real estate with him to this day.

My client's able to recoup a lot of that back rent owed. Then you know what happened? Then Trump started getting into higher education. And all the spend with the University of Virginia with buying this biotechnology equipment from us immediately stopped. And finally, someone in a very high position at the University of Virginia, I'm talking, the highest position, the people I'm talking to are right below the highest position. I said, we're stopping. I said, why to stop? It's like, dude, do you see what's coming? These people aren't even sure that they're going to keep their grad assistants and their scientists and their TAs employed.

They're not going to try to buy more, even if it's 50 or 60 cents on the dollar equipment from you. They're not sure that these kids will have jobs. That was about 10 months ago, and it's only worsened. What he's doing is overreach, but what he's doing is not necessarily terrible. Higher education cannot continue to cost $250,000 and be only for. for the wealthy. Higher education must stop prioritizing marginalized students that don't have the same academic merit

that resource students have. If a resource student beats a marginalized students in GPA, extracurriculars, or athletics, that resource student should be admitted into the university, ahead of the marginalized student, because he or she is a better, more competent, fit student. What does a resource student mean? What do you think a resource student means?

Someone with means? Yeah. Someone with means, a student with means, should not be punished because his parents have done well professionally. If a student has gone from zero to 18 years old and he or she work, their ass off and have a good GPA, good SAT, great essays written, great extracurriculars, great academics, great athletics, they should be prioritized ahead of a marginalized student who does not have the same GPA or has a lower

SAT or does not have the same extracurriculars. I think a better way to put it is that universities are not responsible for fixing the problems that arise from from elementary junior high and high school. Here's an even better way of putting it. You want an even better way of putting it? This is a better way of putting it. They should put the students. They should put the students.

They should put the students, ladies and gentlemen. Can you go on Market Street Cam? They're not going to see much except a tall guy walking away. We just had Ralph Simpson walk to the door right there. Was that not Ralph Sampson? That was Ralph Sampson at the I Love Seville studio right there. They, we love Ralph, here at the I Love Sevo Show. They should admit students on merit.

Yeah. Right? They should figure out a way to make colleges and universities affordable again. They should depoliticize higher education. Don't take impressionable, malleable minds, 18 to 22 year olds, and trying to mold their and manipulate their thinking based on your politics. It should be about academics. Yeah.

Same as school. Extremely obvious. Here's an interesting, couple interesting statistics for you. Then we'll go on to the next topic. Paul Mahoney, the interim president cited Pew Research Center poll, which was released this past Wednesday that found 70% of respondents felt United States of America higher education was generally going in the wrong direction. 70%. The poll also showed that 45% say colleges and universities are doing a fair or poor job of exposing students to a wide range of

opinions and viewpoints, while 79% said they're doing a fair or poor job of keeping tuition costs affordable. No doubt. America, parents and students are telling higher education that you must change what you're doing. Trump sees and knows this data and is trying to utilize it for his

administrative gain, but his execution is poor. It's just poorly executed his tactics because he knows one way of doing things, bull in a China shop. Yeah. That's the issue we have here.

Next topic, at the 115 marker on the I Love Seville show. Judah Wickhara, what do you got? Next up is the Seville zoning lawsuit. Who, what, when, where, why, Judah, Wickhauer. As some of you may remember. I wish Ralph had come in. We were doing a live show. We would have Ralph come in and sat with us.

Ralph Sampson. All right, Seville Zoning Lawsuits. Set the table for us. Some of you may remember we've got a lawsuit going on. Well, first of all, the city released a new zoning ordinance with the purpose of increasing density in the city. So far, not a whole lot has come of it. Nothing is coming. Except for a lawsuit. A lawsuit. And I'm at this point, I'm honestly not sure what they were hoping to get out of the lawsuit. Because all they're asking for in order to end the lawsuit is for the city to go ahead and do what they... A traffic study.

They're asking for a traffic study. And they're saying that... They're saying a traffic study should have been done before. this new zoning ordinance was approved by council. The city council was saying, what do you mean? We did a traffic study. We owned the roads. It's Charlottesville. The people that are suing the city are like,

dude, these roads go in and out of Almoreal County. You should have done a traffic study and how it impacts not just the city, but in and out of Almaro County, and those are VDOT roads, the county. Okay? Here's what I think is happening. The city is now saying, Sean Tubbs is great reporting on this.

It's going to cost us a boatload of money to do this traffic study, a boatload of taxpayer money, but we're just going to go ahead and do this traffic study because it's going to cost less than us pursuing this lawsuit into September of next year. Yeah. I also think the plaintiffs, the plaintiffs realize, Jesus, this is going to cost us so much money to keep this lawsuit going into September of next year. And now we know the city of Charlottesville's got this law firm Gentry Lock that's basically doing work at a discounted rate. and it's the senior partners that are doing the work. Gentry Locke is doing work at a discounted rate for the city

and it's senior partners doing it because they missed a filing deadline. So Gentry Lock realizes that the I Love Seville show is on their nuts, and if they don't fix this and they don't improve this or execute this correctly, they're going to be under the radar and microscope and their firm's brand and image will be tarnished. So the senior partners jump in the mix

and do it at a discounted rate. They also had a little, criteria in there that that filing deadline, if it wasn't waived and the lawsuit couldn't continue moving forward, that they would have had to pay the city $150,000. So the plaintiffs realized the city got some leverage over Gentry lot. And now everyone's doing what everyone does or a lot of people do in these lawsuits. They're starting to hedge financial carrying costs and risk. This was a mess from the beginning.

This was ramrodded from the beginning. This was fast-tracked from the beginning. It was executed poorly from the beginning. The counselors didn't do a good job of listening to people beyond livable Seaville and some activists. And you're talking about the zoning ordinance right now, not the trial. They got bulldozed. You're right. You're right.

Exactly right. They got bulldozed by activists and by livable Seaville to push this new zoning ordinance through. And they didn't listen to others, including the plaintiffs who were speaking prior to the approval of the new zoning ordinance, which, goodness gracious, what was that? December, January of 2023. Nothing happened in 2024. Nothing's happened 10 and a half months into 2025. How much stalled development has taken place? And it's a perfect segue into the next topic on the show.

How about the median values of Holmes? Put that lower third on screen. You live in the city of Charlottesville? How many of you live in the city of Charlottesville? City of Charlottesville. Did you know year-to-date, single-family detached home values year-to-date are down 6% versus the same period last year? Judah, you are a smart man. You live right over the city line.

How far are you all from the city line? Five or six feet. No, I don't know. It's pretty damn close. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that my little subdivision is like... It's split in half, I think. Oh, yeah?

I don't know. I don't think it's fully in Alamoire County. That would be odd, considering there's only one road in, but... There's multiple subdivisions that I know of that are split in City of Charlottesville and Almaro County. Willoughby on Fifth Street is part city and part Almara County. Oh. Okay. I'm not going to docks where you're living right here because you're going to have half a dozen sorority girls sprinting to your house to chance.

to sit outside your window and cheer your name at all hours of the night. And God knows you don't want that. That'll happen. You're about five feet, that's hyperbole. You're about 50 feet, maybe 100 feet from the city line. Something. That's not hyperbole.

If you were on the other side of the line, your home value, the house that you own, would be down 6% near to date. You're in Almore County, At least on paper, you're nearly 10% up year-to-date. Does Charlottesville City Hall realize that city of Charlottesville homeowners, their values, are down 6% year-to-date, while neighboring jurisdiction, Albor County, single-family detached homes year-to-date, are up almost 10%. That is a 16-point delta, Judah. Unbelievable.

next topic at the 119 marker in a busy afternoon for yours truly how about the glemore one yeah this is just a a cornucopia of catastrophic turn events no doubt it's just a freak happening it's bad luck lightning strikes a house or just next to the house the lightning that strikes just next to the house that causes the death of one person and critically injures another hits a gas line the gas line that's hit fills ruptures the gas line fills the house because propane is heavy gas i'm amazed that they think that it actually lit at some point propane is heavy filled the basement yeah and when the out of town homeowners that were in europe at the time call a neighbor to come check on the house because they get of a notification of a problem

A neighbor goes into the house, flicks the basement switch, and you have a war zone and gated community glemore. One dead, one severely burn, still recovering in the hospital. It's just horrible luck. Yeah, horrible luck, especially because here the Almarl County fire rescue chief Eggleston says that normally when when a line ruptures like that, the gas would burn off. But somehow this one burned out before the gas burned off. And that was, as you said, when the propane filled the basement. Was it 12 homes uninhabitable?

12 neighboring homes? and I'm hearing up to 40 damaged in some capacity by this explosion. No doubt. Oof. Still a navigation of red tape tied to insurance claims. As we speak, probably into next year. Oof. Bad luck.

Next topic, Judah Wickhart, what do you have? Let's see. Belmont. And before we get to Belmont, how about we give some love to Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes? Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes, their office in the Charlottesville downtown mall, the best solution and choice for hardscaping anything at your house. Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes, ladies and gentlemen, are who you call if you want to improve your quality of life at your house from a hardscape standpoint. Tim Huss and the team at Oak Valley. Custom Hardscapes are knowledgeable.

They're experienced. They're talented designers, and they can execute. Oak Valley Custom Hardscapes is who you call for anything Hardscape-related. Do we put the king's crown on Belmont, Judah, for the top dining destination? It's got to be pretty close. Do we put the king's crown on downtown Belmont? I mean, the close second or maybe first inching Belmont by, beating Belmont by inches. What, West Maine?

Potentially. West Main's got some good stuff right now. Peter Castellione. Maya. Maya. Smyrna. Smyrna. Black cow.

Black cow chop house. Daniel Kaufman. Public fish and oyster. Daniel Kaufman. Continental Divide. Tavern and grocery. Mexicali? Mexicale.

Look, from a volume standpoint, there's more restaurants on West Main, and there's soon to open Maggie's at Midtown and the old Blue Moon Diner location. You have Orzo, Kitchen and Wine Bar. Mariscoe, Risco's albarco, I mean, madre, chico. We delisioso.

Chomping at the bit, downtown Belmont. You can't find a parking space in Belmont on Thursday or Friday or Saturday night. Parking is such an issue that diners are blocking the driveways of Belmontonians. And now the jervy is set to open next to Masthapas. downtown Beaumont has sex appeal has novelty Genesee qua

is where Judith Smirks I say that just for you look at that like a Cheshire cat grabbing a sleeve of Ritz crackers with a tin of cheese whiz on his hand Judas smirk the Chessire cat right there

Okay If you were a Cheshire cat and you could get a sleeve of Ritz Crackers and a tin can of cheese whiz wouldn't you be smiling? I guess. What do you mean you guess? Cheese whiz and rich crackers?

Who doesn't like that? It's like a sleeve of thin-made Girl Scout cookies. Someone is listening to some serious music outside the studio. I wouldn't call that listening. Downtown Belmont, ladies and gentlemen, may have claimed the king's crown of top dining destination in the city. it's got moss it's got the local it's got tabula it's got bell it's got jervy it's got southern crescent

it's got whatever's currently in that barbecue spot the old belmont barbecue location yeah you should know what's in there why should i know that i've come on the island of seville network before who's he the owner on patty bowden show to make cocktails i'm also drawing up a blank on that as well. I went there once or twice when my sisters were in town months and months ago. You don't remember in the restaurant you went to months ago? It was, it's like, it's right on the tip of my tongue. It's got to do with, like, tacos and stuff.

It's good for the viewers. But it was very highbrow dining. Highbrow dining? Yeah. downtown belmont ladies and gentlemen you may be looking at your new top top dog in the market

last headline what do you got you to a camera and maybe you can find the name of that restaurant and bill mcchesney's exactly right downtown belmont doesn't have vagrants and beggars it's con molle camole that's right amigo camole Very bien, chico. Cambole. Next headline, Judah, with Carol, what do you got?

It's the last headline, right? Yep. I got a 1.45 call here. UVA. Blowing everyone's mind. Tomorrow, 6.30 p.m. Scott Stadium, Homecomings. Isn't it odd at the University of Virginia? It's not the campus.

It's the grounds. It's not freshman, sophomore, juniors, and seniors. It's first year. second year, third year and fourth years. And it's not homecoming, it's homecomings. Just some of the pomp and circumstance

from Thomas Jefferson's University. The academic village, the rotunda, the long, the fourth year fifth. Speaking of the rotunda, I believe there's a there's something going on there today

and that has to do with the compact. Good work there, Judah, Carr. There's something going on there at the Rotonda. Thank you very much right there. We do know what's going on with Virginia football. They are 5-1 and fighting to get bowl-eligible seven games into the season. If they beat Washington State and their 17-5-point favorites, they are 6-1 on the season, Judah.

Six and one. The team is completely healthy, coming out of the bi-week, completely healthy. Virginia is doing this game by game. Yes, that's coach-speak, but they could run the rest of the schedule, which is bananas. And if they do run the rest of the schedule, they're playing in an ACC championship. On paper, it looks like Miami will be their opponent. And anything can happen in one game.

And the winner of that goes to a college football playoff. Holy moly. Camoli. Tony Elliott. The only downfall of tomorrow night's game, it's on the CW network. And who has that network? I hate the CW. Who wants to watch Gilmore Girl reruns and Dawson's Creek reruns? I'm not having the CW.

That's the only downfall of the 630 kicker. off tomorrow for homecomings where there will be a lot of first year, second year, third year, and fourth years as they walk through grounds past the rotunda and the lawn in the academic village and enjoy a fourth year fifth

to get there. The Friday edition of the I Love Seville show for talented Judah Wickhauer. My name is Jerry Miller. So long, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.