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U.Va. architects plan for City's future

A University-based group of architects and students have unveiled an exhibit for their plan to connect vital parts of Charlottesville with a single-track trolley system, according to a University press release.

The team includes former Charlottesville Mayor Maurice Cox and Gary Okerlund, both current adjunct professors in the Architecture School, as well as Architecture graduate students Justin Laskin, Justin Walton, Tommy Solomon and Jayme Schwartzberg and Shannon Yadsko and Architecture undergraduate Sally Foster. The project is co-sponsored by the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation.

Okerlund explained that the project focuses on "exploration of potential for a streetcar connecting Downtown and the Corner

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