Albemarle County, Virginia’s Master Plan for the village of Crozet has been singled out as one of the most innovative such projects in America. The plan was one of fifteen studies selected nationwide by the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) for a 2005 Charter Award, the organization’s highest accolade for exemplary design and implementation. From Citiesthatwork.comWhat is most funny is that Two weeks before the Board of Supervisors voted December 1 to approve the Crozet Master Plan, the Crozet Community Association just said no.
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A less aggressive redistricting plan for Albemarle County
It would impact roughly 40% fewer kids than a proposal that many parents verbally trashed a week ago. Under this scaled back redistricting scheme, high schoolers whose families live in the Dunlora, Stonehenge, and Pen Park areas off East Rio Road would NOT get switched from Albemarle to Monticello as of the fall of 2006. Committee Chairman Dean Riddick notes this revised plan would also allow families in the Farmington area to stay in the Murray Elementary-Henley Middle School-Western Albemarle High School feeder pattern. Superintendent Kevin Castner and his senior staff will examine the ramifications of this modified plan, and could tweak these recommendations before a July 14th meeting of the Albemarle School Board.
Realtor meeting this morning with Harrison Rue
This morning’s monthly meeting of Realtors was interesting and informative.Harrison Rue, Director of the Thomas Jefferson Partnership for Economic Development spoke about some of the most important projects have identified, notably the Hillsdale Connector and the Meadowcreek Parkway.
Redistricting info
First With Local News AM 1070 WINA Charlottesville:Many of the current Albemarle High School parents and some AHS students DON’T like a proposal to reassign students in Dunlora, Stonehenge and other neighborhoods along the East Rio Road corridor. They want to stay at AHS instead of getting placed in the Monticello attendance zone.Unfortunately, this is the price we pay for living in such a great place where so many people want to live.Not everybody is going to be happy; this is the hard reality for those dedicated and generous volunteers on the redistricting committee. You can follow some of the redistricting info here.
Albemarle County news
From today’s “A-Mail”The next Board of Supervisors Meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 starting at 9:00 a.m. in Room 241 of the County Office Building at McIntire.The meeting will begin with the recognition of June as Homeownership Month and recognition of the Crozet Master Plan by the Council on New Urbanism. For those of you arriving late, New Urbanism is the latest trend in developing – it promotes the creation and restoration of diverse, walkable, compact, vibrant, mixed-use communities composed of the same components as conventional development, but assembled in a more integrated fashion, in the form of complete communities. These contain housing, work places, shops, entertainment, schools, parks, and civic facilities essential to the daily lives of the residents, all within easy walking distance of each other.
Places 29 update
Local residents, newly versed in the basics of master planning, sat down Wednesday night and sank their teeth into the possibilities of land use along the U.S. 29 growth corridor in Albemarle County….With 1,500 to 2,000 new residents moving into the county every year, the time to plan for growth is now, Board of Supervisors Chairman Dennis S. Rooker told the 100-or-so residents who came to the meeting at the Doubletree Hotel Charlottesville.”the time to plan is NOW???”… The time to plan was 20-25 years ago. Admit failure and move on.This is an aerial view of 29 North from 1984.
Places 29 Meeting
Received this from the Free Enterprise Forum this morning – From Albemarle County’s website “Places29 combines a transportation study of the Route 29 North Corridor with land use planning for four designated urban communities. Places29…