COVID-19 and Crozet

via facebook :

I am a family doctor and I am terrified for the vulnerable members of our community. These are the numbers. In our small community of Crozet, VA, approximately 10K people, estimated between 40 and 238 deaths from covid-19 coronavirus, unless we as community members enact drastic social distancing measures immediately. If we wait until we have a documented case we have missed our chance to #flattenthecurve. That first case will represent many, many undiagnosed cases that may have been circulating for weeks. Please protect yourself and our most vulnerable and do not go to school, work, or other activities. You can transmit this virus unknowingly to someone who can die from this. Someone please tell me that my math is wrong?

I want to clarify that I am not terrified for myself, my husband, or my children. If any of us contract this virus, especially the kids, we will most likely have a mild case that we will recover from without much difficulty. As a physician, I am terrified for the most vulnerable members of our community who will not recover so easily. I am terrified that we know this data, yet it is not getting out to the public. We should learn lessons from Italy, Washington state, California, where very good hospitals are becoming overwhelmed, without enough ventilators to keep patients alive or enough protective equipment to prevent the doctors from getting infected. This virus is very contagious and people with mild cold like symptoms can easily spread it to others. The only known way to reduce deaths in a community is for all of us to stay home. Including those who feel fine.   I don’t want everyone else to feel terrified. But I do want everyone to take this extremely seriously. 

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Reminder: Follow RealCrozetVA on Twitter

I wrote this after the derecho in 2012.

Every day brings further affirmation that Facebook is, for events such as this, fine (albeit evil and terrible) for conversation. For disseminating timely information. twitter is infinitely better.

Now that we’ve all learned what a derecho is, this is as good a time as ever to remind you to follow RealCrozetVA on Twitter – I’m posting there much more often than I can here, in part because it’s much, much, much easier to post tweets from my phone than it is to write a blog post. I’m trying to post on the RealCrozetVA Facebook page, but that app is so remarkably slow and dysfunctional that it drains my iPhone’s battery super-fast. *and, I no longer have the FB app on my phone

So – follow RealCrozetVA on Twitter or simply keep refreshing that page if you’re not on the Twitter.

Twitter is also good for following CCAC meetings. Here are the tweets from the March 2020 CCAC meeting.

Be nice to each other.

CCAC March 2020 | Little Explorers, Wireless Service Facility

#CCAC0320

Via email: (bolding mine)

The Crozet Community Advisory Committee will meet this Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Crozet Library. Hope you can join us. There will be two special use permit application presentations.

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CROZET COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Crozet Library 
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. 

Agenda 
1.    Introductions and Agenda Review (Allie Pesch – CCAC chair) 
2.    Approval of Minutes 
3.    Little Explorers Discovery School Special Use Permit Presentation (Christi Gillette –40 minutes) 
4.    Wild Turkey Lane Tier III Personal Wireless Service Facility Special Use Permit Presentation (Lori Schweller – 40 minutes) 
5.    Items Not Listed on the Agenda 
6.    Announcements 
        a.    *Special CCAC Meeting* Crozet Master Plan Revision Discussion: Wednesday, March 25, 7 – 8:30 p.m. at the Meadows 
        b.    Crozet Master Plan Community Workshop: Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 – 8 p.m. at WAHS 


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Yancey Mill Special Exceptions

Remember the noise and discussion about the Yancey Mill noises at the November CCAC meeting? Looks like the conversation with Albemarle County is ongoing.

The following email from Bill First with Albemarle County was forwarded to me by a neighbor of Yancey Mill about the upcoming County meetings about the Mill, which has been in its location for decades.

As an aside, I’ve found the County to be quite good at communicating with citizens and doing all that they can to keep people informed, about this, and almost anything else.

Planning Commission – Tuesday March 24.  The staff report and agenda will be available approximately one week prior to the meeting.  If you would like comments included in the report please provide them to me no later than March 13.  Comments received after that date will be forwarded to the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors they just won’t be included in the Planning Commission report.

Board of Supervisors – Wednesday April 15.  The staff report and agenda will be available approximately one week prior to the meeting.  All information received for the Planning Commission meeting will be automatically forwarded to the Board of Supervisors.  You do not need to resubmit comments.  However, if you did not provide comments for the Planning Commission or have new comments please send those comments to me no later than April 1st.  Again, if you provide comments after that date they will be forwarded to the Board they just won’t be in the report packet.



Tangentially Related

CCAC February 2020 Recap | Crozet Sports, Bamboo Grove

A big meeting. A big conversation about a big project in Crozet, the Crozet Sports facility, and a big conversation about a tiny rezoning for 6 great houses along Jarmans Gap.

Read all the tweets. Please.

Video at the bottom of this post.

The agenda for the meeting is here.

  • Bamboo Grove
    • Small project, rezoning from R2 to R4; it would be 6 single family housing units
    • Chris Fuller’s slide deck. For posterity, the PDF is here, too.
    • This was a great discussion about more than a simple rezoning (just do it; it’s a small and great project), it was an informative lesson about housing affordability, and how greater density leads to greater affordability.
      • And also how building smaller, more efficient houses is part of the solution

CCAC  February 2020
Bigger than usual attendance

Everything changes.

Video

When Did Crozet Become a Growth Area?

Crozet Comp Plan from 1977

Crozet is growing, and it’s going to continue to grow. It’s been planned that way for nearly 50 years.

Q: When Did Crozet Become a Growth Area? (before a lot of people in Crozet were born)

A: 1971.

Fun fact: The average year built of a home sold in Crozet in 2019 was 2003

From Cvillepedia

Crozet was first designated as a designated growth area with the 1971 revision of the county’s comprehensive plan[1].



Old Comp Plans

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CCAC Meeting – 12 February 2020 – Crozet Sports, Bamboo Grove

via email, bolding mine. #CCAC0220

CROZET COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Crozet Library 
Wednesday, February 12, 2020 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. 

Agenda 


1.    Introductions and Agenda Review (Allie Pesch – CCAC chair) 
2.    Approval of Minutes 
3.    Crozet Sports Zoning Map Amendment Community Meeting (Valerie Long, Williams Mullen and Justin Byrd, Crozet Sports Owner – 40 minutes) 
4.    Bamboo Grove Zoning Map Amendment Community Meeting (Christopher Fuller – 40 minutes) 
5.    Crozet Master Plan Update Phase 2 Check-in (Andrew Knuppel, Albemarle County Community Development – 15 minutes) 
6.    Items Not Listed on the Agenda 
7.    Announcements 

Thank goodness Crozet Library closes at 9; I suspect with two Zoning Map Amendments (Bamboo Grove and Crozet Sports) this meeting could go long.


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Rooftop Closing; Will now be Event Space

via their Facebook page:

In recent weeks, the owner of Piedmont Place approached us with an idea of an event space conversion to accompany the hotel concept for the 6 apartment suites at Piedmont Place that will be opening in March. After much debate and consideration, we have decided that a new event space would best serve the community and its growing needs, and allow us to focus 100% of our attention on Smoked Kitchen and Tap, which has always been the greatest passion of both Justin and myself.

Effective immediately, The Rooftop will be shutting its doors to make way for the new event space.

We want to express our sincere gratitude to those of you who have supported us through our journey. The decision to pass the baton to another business owner was exceptionally difficult. Ultimately, we feel like stepping aside for this event space is what serves Piedmont Place, the Smoked Kitchen and Tap patrons, and the Crozet community the best. We have many deep relationships and friendships in the Crozet community and hope to be able to continue to deepen those through our greater focus and better service at Smoked. We have trust and confidence that this will be a huge highlight to an already exceptional development in Crozet. A sincere thank you to all of our loyal patrons, community members, and staff that served us over the years.