Comments on: Crozet Gazette Pulls No Punches http://www.realcrozetva.com/2010/01/07/crozet-gazette-pulls-no-punches/ A community blog for Crozet, Virginia Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Edward Strauss http://www.realcrozetva.com/2010/01/07/crozet-gazette-pulls-no-punches/comment-page-1/#comment-31411 Edward Strauss Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:08:53 +0000 http://www.realcrozetva.com/2010/01/07/crozet-gazette-pulls-no-punches/#comment-31411 Better a park than tract housing. There is nothing natural or nice about the way Albemarle County is being developed. What I find interesting is that how the people who started the damage are know crying for it to stop. 24,000, hah. If the County ever does Streetscapes watch out. Hopefully there will be at least 10,000 low income units. Will you be gone by then or will you hang around to take credit for the mess or profit from it? Better a park than tract housing. There is nothing natural or nice about the way Albemarle County is being developed. What I find interesting is that how the people who started the damage are know crying for it to stop.
24,000, hah. If the County ever does Streetscapes watch out. Hopefully
there will be at least 10,000 low income units. Will you be gone by then or will you hang around to take credit for the mess or profit from it?

]]> By: Jim http://www.realcrozetva.com/2010/01/07/crozet-gazette-pulls-no-punches/comment-page-1/#comment-31410 Jim Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:31:39 +0000 http://www.realcrozetva.com/2010/01/07/crozet-gazette-pulls-no-punches/#comment-31410 From an email commenter: Sorry Jim but there was not enough water in the aquifers to accomodate the 3,100 houses in Biscuit Run. I vote for the green space and am happy to pay my share in taxes for a park, even if I don't use it people without the means have a nice place to go, rather than a sprawling subdivision - we have enough of those. It won't add pressure to Crozet - check out the housing developments starting on 29 north at Fashion Sq. and Rio Road and start counting as you head up and into Greene County. We'll be just fine here in Crozet - no worries. ---- The money issue, however, makes one pause - money is available when and where they need it. Look at Boulder, CO they have the entire city encircled by a "green ring" and no building can go beyond that - too much nature or park space? No way as I'd rather have nature than the sprawl. There is never any easy answer but what is the lesser of the two evils perhaps. From an email commenter:

Sorry Jim but there was not enough water in the aquifers to accomodate the 3,100 houses in Biscuit Run. I vote for the green space and am happy to pay my share in taxes for a park, even if I don’t use it people without the means have a nice place to go, rather than a sprawling subdivision – we have enough of those.

It won’t add pressure to Crozet – check out the housing developments starting on 29 north at Fashion Sq. and Rio Road and start counting as you head up and into Greene County. We’ll be just fine here in Crozet – no worries.

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The money issue, however, makes one pause – money is available when and where they need it. Look at Boulder, CO they have the entire city encircled by a “green ring” and no building can go beyond that – too much nature or park space? No way as I’d rather have nature than the sprawl. There is never any easy answer but what is the lesser of the two evils perhaps.

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