Town Hall

Batesville residents have made significant progress toward their goal of restricting dangerous truck traffic that passes through their small rural village on Plank Road. Beginning in March at a packed community meeting with state and local officials to air their concerns, citizens have organized into groups and proceeded methodically, negotiating thickets of transportation policy and precedent in pursuit of...

A key piece of planned Crozet infrastructure was discussed at the August 2 Board of Supervisors meeting, and the county’s analysis revealed its prospects to be considerably dimmed. The long-awaited Eastern Avenue “connector” roadway would link the current end of Eastern Ave. (south of Westhall Drive) across Lickinghole Creek to Cory Farm Road and Rt. 250. The 3,000-foot bridge/road...

The following opportunities for public input were shared at the August meeting of the Crozet Community Advisory Committee. Ongoing public engagement projects are also posted at engage.albemarle.org. Stream Buffer Overlay District Comments (Open until Sunday, August 13) MPO Long-Range Transportation Survey VDOT Ivy Road Corridor Survey (Open until Friday, August 18) Cell Tower Regulation Survey (Open until August 25)

Albemarle County is in the midst of updating its 20-year Comprehensive Plan—a process similar to Crozet’s own Master Plan development but on a much larger scale—and is preparing sections on housing, land use, recreation, transportation, and economic development, among others. The plan is dubbed “AC44” (for twenty years hence) and is currently in Phase 2, “setting goals and objectives.”...

Representatives from Riverbend Development and Collins Engineering met with Crozet residents on the evening of June 8 at Brownsville Elementary for an unusual second public meeting concerning Riverbend’s proposed Oak Bluff neighborhood. Over 100 community members sat and stood in Brownsville’s cafeteria to listen to and ask questions of Riverbend’s senior management about the plan for 134 units on...

The Albemarle County Planning Commission recommended approval of a Special Use Permit request for the new owner of the renamed Crozet Mobile Home Community (MHC) at the commission’s June 27 meeting. The mobile home park on Park Road just east of Crozet Park has existed in that location continuously for over 40 years, predating most of the development around...

Doris and David Harding carefully selected their dream home in Glenbrook at Foothill Crossing in 2019 for its location on a quiet cul-de-sac and its panoramic Blue Ridge mountain views. After living in Western Ridge for 16 years, then spending five years in Germany, the couple returned to Crozet as an ideal place to retire. “The selling point for...