Comments on: Albemarle County tax assessments rise

By: Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » Charlotttesville-Albemarle conflict continues

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:09:32 +0000

[...] Charlotttesville-Albemarle conflict continues By Jim Duncan For those who are relocating to or unfamilar the area, the County of Albemarle surrounds the City of Charlottesville. (for a bit of background) The entities share a lot of things, due to to their symbiotic relationship, but conflicts no doubt arise. For a prime example, visit Charlottesville Tomorrow for today’s example: … asked the City to close Old Lynchburg road immediately as a way to improve the position of the (Albemarle County) Board of Supervisors in their negotiations on Biscuit Run (a proposed 3,500 unit development) as well as to spark acceptance by County residents for additional road interconnections from neighborhoods like Redfields to Route 29. He argued that only if County residents were literally running into a wall at the City line would they then accept the bitter pill of a political decision by the Supervisors to build alternate paths around the City and through some County neighborhoods. [...]

By: Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » Assessment roundup

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:53:37 +0000

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By: Jim Duncan

Jim Duncan — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:17:14 +0000

Count me as one who will be challenging my new assessment. They’ve got to be kidding.

By: TrvlnMn

TrvlnMn — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:04:53 +0000

Utilities are far more expensive to provide to out lying areas like where you appear to live.

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Maybe rural areas should have a 10% surcharge for electricity from the utilities…

The County of Albemarle isn’t providing my electricity. That service is being provided for by a “For profit” company not a welfare program.

I understand the point you’re trying to make- but it still seems like the rural areas are subsidizing the urban areas- and as an additional point the county wants the rural areas to stay rural (for the benefit of the Urban areas) and pay for that privilege.

No thanks.

By: jm

jm — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:16:32 +0000

Trvlnn, Lots of county services cost less to provide where there is higher density such as road maintenance. Utilities are far more expensive to provide to out lying areas like where you appear to live.

There are many advantages to encourage what growth there is to be close to Charlottesville and Crozet and away from rural areas and areas with inadequate roads.

One way to do that would be to have higher taxes for those who choose to live further away where services are more expensive to deliver. Maybe rural areas should have a 10% surcharge for electricity from the utilities…

By: TrvlnMn

TrvlnMn — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:27:07 +0000

I don’t have a good handle on the exact boundries of the districts. However at first glance it seems to me that the rural areas are seeing larger jumps then the more urban areas. Yes they were higher than the urban areas to begin with, but don’t they use less services?

In any case If I’m carrying the weight for those living closer to town, and the developers (meaning the BoS failure to get adequate proffers for infrastructure from them). Then I also want hourly bus service from my outer edge of Albemarle Co into town.