Category Archives: Louisa
Louisa reduces tax rate
DailyProgress.com | Louisa OKs county budget:The supervisors also voted 4-3 to lower the tax rate from 70 to 66 cents per $100 of assessed value. But assessments averaging 35 percent higher than they were in 2003 create a net tax increase of 6 cents, (bolding mine) according to officials….“I think we went back to doing things for people,” Chairman Fitzgerald Barnes said of next fiscal year’s budget.If nothing else, this is a step in the right direction…. The school system has agreed to a voluntary audit from the state designed to identify ways school divisions can increase efficiency. Continue reading
Water shortage in Louisa
DailyProgress.com | Louisa officials looking to solve water shortage:Although Fluvanna and Louisa counties have agreed to the basic outline of an $18 million project to pipe water from the James River to Zion Crossroads, it is still in the early permit process and Louisa leaders are meanwhile eyeing other ways to hydrate the area.The potential for dramatic water shortages is not localized to the Charlottesville/Albemarle area – it extends at least to the entire Central Virginia region, as evidenced by this story. Interestingly, one of the issues that Louisa/Fluvanna are considering is the James River pipeline.One of the focal points of this particular story is the Spring Creek development that is currently under development near the 64 Interchange in Louisa. This is a massive development that is the first foray into our market by Ryan Homes. Continue reading
Higher density growth in Louisa
parcels can now build more homes by right on them as a result of a resolution
passed by the Louisa County Board of Supervisors following a public hearing on
Wednesday, Mar. 23.
Landowners who
own property that was zoned A-2 on or before Dec. 18, 1997 can now divide their
tract into a maximum of 18 1.5-acre lots without having to seek special
permission. However, any land that was zoned A-2 after that date must continue
to adhere to the county?s parent parcel
regulations.
…Louisa does not yet
have the problems that Albemarle/Cville
Best Western will soon be coming to Zion Crossroads.
Louisa reassessment are in
shocked,? he said. ?I think they probably had their way with me in
valuing the house.””… Continue reading…
