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These properties together provide approximately two acres to house the new library facility and associated parking. Last year the Board of Supervisors expressed unanimous support for pursuing LEED Certification for all newly-constructed County buildings including the Crozet Library— LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and is a nationally accepted rating system for designing and building green buildings. … Summary of Major Library Project Milestones to Date: - Downtown library endorsed by adopted Crozet Master Plan – December, 2004 - Purchase of Harris property for establishment of new Main Street – March, 2006 - Selection of project architect - September, 2006 - Contingent contract on Amato property – September, 2006 - Consultant meetings with stakeholders on library site - September, 2006 - Public meeting on library site selection – October, 2006 - Board work session on library site selection – November, 2006 - Purchase of Amato property – December, 2006 - Topographic surveys/alignment studies for Crozet Avenue and Main Street - initiated January, 2007 – completed June, 2007 - Board of Supervisors establishes library building at 20,000 sq ft with approximately 15,000 sq ft dedicated initially for library programming– March, 2007 - Downtown Zoning project begins – May, 2007 - Consultant selected for Crozet Avenue/Main Street Streetscape project – May, 2007 - The streetscape project that will create New Main Street and access to the Crozet Library gets underway – August, 2007 - Structures on the Harris property are removed as part of site preparation for the library project – March, 2008 - The Board of Supervisors appoints a Steering Committee work with County staff and the project consultant during the library’s conceptual design phase - May, 2008 - The Board of Supervisors adopts the downtown zoning ordinance for Crozet that establishes the conditions necessary to design and construct the library as envisioned in the Master Plan – June, 2008 * republished in entirety from the County’s press release

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Read the story at Charlottesville Tomorrow .

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My family moved out of Charlottesville to a farm near Crozet 9 years ago. We moved out this way because we could see the way things were changing in the north of Albemarle County, way more traffic, more subdivisions, more shopping centers….  Yes, it is rundown in some ways, but my kids love watching the train at the old library, I love being able to look for books in the library and still being able to keep an eye on my kids….  I make a trip to Charlottesville or Waynesboro once a week for a major shopping trip, what I run out of during the week, I shop for locally.I love that I can have chickens, roosters, donkeys, horses and cows and no one complains about the noise, smell, flies, ……  If we add all the things that people want like a movie theatre, Chinese restaurants, more pizza places, more stores, then it will begin to be more like NoVA and less like Crozet.

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Let’s hope that the new Library (more on the plans here) has some of the impacts that Jim Bacon details here -The (Shirlington) library also contributes to the vision of a community where things are happening 24/7.  “We have a regular flow of traffic on the streets during the weekday but especially during early evening and the weekends,” says director Susan McCarthy….  “Most of our traffic is through the front door,” not from the parking deck connected to the side door.  “We have a lot of people who come over from the offices during the day, checking out a book for the weekend or using the wireless.”

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The library will be Downtown.  Thanks to Jeremy Borden with the DP:Board members said neither site would please everyone, but they all had their own reasons for wanting the site downtown.Now …

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Email Alerts. Thanks for visiting!About one hundred and fifty people attended this past Wednesday’s Library meeting at Western Albemarle High School. Supervisor David Wyant opened the meeting with the sweeping statement that “The library today involves the [...]

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Library meeting: Real chance to be heard, or PR obfuscation?
Can our voices make a difference, or has the County already decided where to put the library? Is the listening sincere or just a calculated strategy, in reaction to Crozetians’ anger over Old Trail and the way those plans changed?
All that cynicism aside, here is [...]

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This evening at Western Albemarle High School, architects will present the two site options - one Downtown and one at the “Old School Location.” Both have their merits, and both would benefit from community input. Hope to see you there at 7!
In the meantime, consider this recent article from the WSJ about modern collegiate libraries.

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Are you handy with a scoop and carving knife? Do you have hidden vegetable carving talents? If so (or if not), enter the carved pumpkin contest this October. Simply drop off your carved pumpkin on Friday, October 27 or Saturday, October 28 during regular library hours. After dark on Monday October 30, drop by to [...]

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A suggestion from a reader:As community leaders meet to discuss plans for the future, preserving the past, and helping to enhance Crozet’s business independence - how about developing free internet access as is available in downtown Charlottesville?  My husband and I are both in lines of work where the computer is our office and it would really be great to be able to go to a coffee shop or park bench to tap out e-mails, read the news, etc., while being in the company of our Crozet neighbors.  See the following link as a reference: Charlottesville Free WirelessPerhaps the new library will help to facilitate this notion?I think this is a fantastic idea….  If the new library were to provide free wireless in all directions - wow!I’ve broached the idea of a regional wireless cloud once before….  Say what you will, providing wireless is a form of drawing people together, of encouraging community.  Even if this interaction is fleeting, as we say a quick hello and return to our laptops….  Unfortunately, Crozet does not yet have a coffee shop, and if we get one at the new Clover Lawn Shoppes, it might be a Starbucks, with their ridiculous pay-for-use T-Mobile internet, another reason I won’t go there.This note from a reader provides me the perfect opportunity to correct one thing from the recent profile done on realcrozetva by the Crozet Gazette.  The saturation of internet access in Albemarle is around 75-80%, not broadband saturation; but we are getting there!

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