Crozet's community blog
Amazing work, VDOT, and all involved. Well done, and thank you.
Route 250 (Ivy Road) over Little Ivy Creek in @AlbemarleCounty is OPEN to traffic one day early (just in time for your PM commute)! The detour has been lifted. We greatly appreciate your patience and support during this project. https://twitter.com/VaDOTCULP/status/1022562574729129985/photo/1
via email (I changed some of the bolding to focus on Crozet)
Dear Community Members,
My summer listening tour is underway! I’ve already met with several groups of students and teachers. It has been very helpful to hear so many ideas about bright spots in our schools, opportunities for improvement, and your advice for me. I’m looking forward to my first community session this week on Wednesday evening, July 25, 6 to 7:30 at Albemarle High School.
If you’re planning to attend, please remember to register, which helps us with planning.
Last school year, our 14,000 students represented 89 countries and spoke 74 home languages! Demographically, our students were 10.5% Black, 12.8% Hispanic, and 65.4% White. Ten percent were English Learners; 30.4% received free and reduced price meals; 11.9% were identified for special education services; and 9.8% were identified as gifted.
Albemarle County Public Schools is becoming a more vibrant community, offering continued opportunities to be enriched by our diversity and to grow stronger together.
My summer listening tour is an opportunity to hear about the needs, challenges, hopes and ideas from community members who bring a broad range of life experiences to our school division.
I hope you can join me at one of the following Listening Tour opportunities:
If you are unable to attend, I encourage you to share your thoughts and ideas through the Online Feedback Form. You also may follow the progress of my first 100 days as Superintendent online at www.k12albemarle.org/
I look forward to working with you to shape the future of our school division!
Sincerely,
Matt
Dr. Matthew S. Haas
Superintendent of Schools
The first half of 2018 is behind us, and we talked about resales vs new construction, home prices, where in Crozet homes are selling, what happened with home inventory over the past few years.
Note that this is a longer video than typical; we covered a lot.
Thanks to the Rooftop for letting us use their … Rooftop.
(Greg and I are getting accustomed to doing these videos together … we will get better)
Continue reading “Mid-2018 Crozet Real Estate Market Update”
I* was riding my bicycle the other morning around 7:30, and stopped for two women trying to cross from the Piedmont Place side to the Post Office side of Crozet Avenue. They seemed perplexed for a moment when I stopped, and put my hand out to signal to the cars behind me.
One of the women said, “you don’t have to stop, the cars aren’t,” and I stayed put until they crossed.
*Really didn’t want to make this a story about me as it’s a story about Crozet & neighborliness, but as I was the one on the bike …
Reminder: 250 in Ivy closed Friday 13 July at 8pm.
From Joel DeNunzio with VDOT:
Say goodbye to the 80+ year old Little Ivy Creek bridge in @AlbemarleCounty. Route 250 (Ivy Rd.) will remain closed thru July 27. pic.twitter.com/Ow1KS3NXlR
— VDOT Culpeper (@VaDOTCULP) July 14, 2018
Continue reading “250 in Ivy Closed; VDOT Working to Alleviate Traffic”
I suspect there may be more wrecks on 64 when 250 is closed on Friday for two weeks. I’d like to be wrong.
Best to follow @RealCrozetVA on Twitter … I’ll do my best to tweet & retweet if there are wrecks. Or … maybe we can all try to stay in Crozet for a couple weeks! Patronize our local businesses more?
Continue reading “Stay in Crozet (When 250 is Closed) starting 13 July?”
Things are about to start ramping up with Downtown Crozet … if you can make this meeting, please do.
Join us next Thursday for our monthly DCI meeting as we discuss county updates, the Main Street grant work plans, a recent meeting with the Artisan Depot, and plaza fundraising plans. As the plaza gets closer to becoming a reality, we’d love input from more community members. Come get involved in the future of downtown Crozet!
If you plan to attend, please RSVP here.
Thursday, July 12
12 pm – 2 pm
Crozet Pizza
Restore N Station gets points for persistence … note the dates at the bottom of this post. This has been going on for at least 8 years; it’s critical to pay attention to local government.
Forgive the formatting … it’s theirs, not mine. Bolding is mine, however.
SP201700020 Restore’n Station. PROJECT: SP 201700020 Re-Store’N Station Amendment (amendment of SP 200900034) MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT: White Hall TAX MAP/PARCEL: 055B0000000100 LOCATION: 6115 Rockfish Gap Turnpike PROPOSAL: Amend fuel dispensing conditions, hours of operation and update condition to reflect compliance with approved site plan. No change in permitted water use is proposed. PETITION: Amend the existing conditions of SP200900034 which was a request to permit water consumption exceeding four hundred (400) gallons per site acre per day as permitted under Section 24.2.2(13) of the zoning ordinance. The site contains 4.06 acres. ZONING: HC, Highway Commercial– retail sales and service; residential by special use permit (15 units/ acre) OVERLAY DISTRICT: EC- Entrance Corridor PROFFERS: No COMPREHENSIVE PLAN: Rural Areas – preserve and protect agricultural, forestal, open space, and natural, historic and scenic resources/residential density 0.5 unit/acre in development lots…
1. Restoren Station Transmittal Summary, 2. Attach. A – SP201700020 Restoren Station Staff Report, 3. Attach. A1 – Map, 4. Attach. A2 – Aerial Google Maps, 5. Attach. A3 – Map Showing Zoning, 6. Attach. A4 – Resolution of Denial sp2015_32, 7. Attach. A5 – Applicant Justification, 8. Attach. A6 – Purpose and Intent of the Zoning Ordinance, 9. Attach. A7 – Albemarle County Comprehensive Plan, 10. Attach. A8 – Public Comments, 11. Attach. A9 – Information Submitted at the Dec 12 PC Mtg, 12. Attach. B – Planning Commission Action Letter, 13. Attach. C – PC 12-5-2017 Minutes
Thank you to all of the volunteers who worked tirelessly to pull off one of the best days in Crozet every year.
For the parade to the music, food trucks, parking, traffic, fireworks and everything else, thank you.
