If this map and data are anywhere close to accurate (thanks CityLab for pointing it out), there are going to be a lot more people living in the Charlottesville/Albemarle region in 20 years.
What are the localities doing to prepare the infrastructure – roads, bike lanes, power grid – to accommodate these folks? I ask in part because of a meeting in Crozet last night that discussed rezoning a property from 1 unit per acre to 3-4 units per acre; the community discussion quickly moved from the rezoning itself to the supporting infrastructure. If you have a few minutes, dig into the tweet stream from that meeting; it’s really quite interesting, and I think probably representative of many conversations that are or should be happening in Central Virginia and beyond.
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