Subscriber’s Digest (1-17-25) … 'just the way it [WAS]'

5 downtown streets targeted for high-density rezoning; Apartments recommended for bank building; Affordability of rents at redeveloped apartments, and more!

News and Commentary this week included proposed rezoning changes for downtown, rent affordability, mixed-used building conversion and a new waste recycling facility. (Images: George Arbogust, Williamsburg Independent)

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Local music legend Bruce Hornsby is perhaps best known for his hit, “The Way It Is,” in which he deftly critiques a mosaic of troubling human conditions with observations and descriptions that seem just as relevant today as when he wrote the classic years ago. I believe the song teaches that pushing for change is often n…