Looking Back at 2025’s Wishlist

Last January, I posed the question: “What does Crozet Want?”

Let’s have a look at 2025/2026

• The Square changed.
• The Lumberyard is a trash pile.
• Eastern Avenue might never happen. And it might. Who knows?
• The mountains and the views continue to be amazing.
• Crozet Trails Crew continues to lead the way with their tireless efforts.
• Three Notch’d Trail makes progress
• Schools have crowding challenges
• Small businesses in Downtown Crozet continue to build business and community
• The Crozet real estate market continues to be active, with a bit of a tempering underway
• Crozet Park is looking to move its expansion forward.
• We continue to need improved roads and non-car-centric infrastructure. Sadly, we lack leadership and funding at all levels of government.

We have such a great opportunity in Crozet to continue to build an amazing “town.”

Let’s do it.

From 2025

I started striking through the things that didn’t happen, and got tired of the keystrokes. Situation normal. No substantive changes, which in and of itself isn’t a bad thing.

Picking and choosing a few of the comments from the post:

• Sidewalk or multiuse path the entire length of Three Notched Road. Real progress on Barnes Lumber area. And where the heck is that traffic circle at 240/250 Mechums trestle?
  • Roundabout at 240/250/680 coming in 2025?
• Eastern Avenue south to 250
• Traffic calming measures on neighborhood streets. So our kids don’t get run over by the many drivers who treat our neighborhood streets like speedways.
• Sidewalks and trails connecting town with neighborhoods
• Fewer hideous monstrosities like what is being built on 250 and Miller School Rd. It is sooo incongruous with the surroundings. Ugh
• To turn back time……
• Less plans for unaffordable housing and more for the community that already lives here. Sidewalks. Community activities for children. More at the park that doesn’t revolve around alcohol. More that doesn’t revolve around alcohol in general
• Safe cycling option to get from Crozet to Cville and back (bike lane?)
• Change the traffic light in front of Western to a large roundabout. Either that or widen the intersection and entrance the school to include extra lanes – we need something to facilitate much smoother entrance in the mornings and afternoons because right now it’s a semi-controlled disaster
  • The roundabout is coming — Nope. Not funded.
• Sidewalks and bike lanes making us less reliant on cars!
• Sidewalks. Everywhere. I have never lived anywhere that the children cannot walk to school. Crozet is very unwalkable considering how small the area is. Hopefully one day. And I would also like to see bike lanes.
• Sidewalks from Tabor along Park Road and past the park! I see so many children walking in the road.
• Bodos, Chandlers, more sidewalks, a reduced speed limit on Jarmans Gap Road from 40 to 25/30 like the rest of the road. No safe space for the many bikers and walkers after Greyrock to Lanetown intersection and now fully developed! Thx
• Sidewalks. All the sidewalks.
• Wish list-Fix the malfunction junction @ the 4-way stop and the Square. It’s awful and no one knows how to use a 4-way stop properly. Someone will get hurt soon, possibly a pedestrian. The 240/250 is even more unsafe, so any improvement with that would be appreciated . TY for asking and for all of the hard work to keep us safe & moving forward!
• Avoid car cenric planning. The best country in the world to drive in is one that prioritizes other forms of transportation like walking, cycling, and public transport: https://youtu.be/d8RRE2rDw4k
• Downtown Crozet plaza and successful small business growth/incentives to sustain the larger downtown area. And connected sidewalks & bike paths on 240, 250, down Crozet Ave, and around the Park