Public Hearing Notices Detail:
Request to rezone 20.52 acres from Rural Area, R-A zoning district, to Neighborhood Model – NMD to allow a combination of 97 single -family detached and condominium/townhouse residential units. The property, described as Tax Map 56 Parcel(s) 92 is located in the White Hall Magisterial District on 5023 Three Notch’d Road, Route 240, approximately 1,000 feet from the intersection of Route 240 and Highlands Drive, which is also known as the entrance to The Highlands subdivision. The Comprehensive Plan designates this property as Industrial Service, in the Community of Crozet.
Aargh. As a REALTOR, growth is ostensibly good, but all of this growth does threaten the beauty and supposed tranquility that draws people here. It is simply irresponsible to approve development after development without planning first, or at least simultaneously, for new modes of transportation, whether roads, rail, whatever.
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