Category: Crozet

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Hazy Day in Crozet

And this is why –

Smoke from the North Carolina wildfire grew so thick in Hampton Roads on Tuesday night that 911 dispatchers were deluged with calls from residents reporting fires in their neighborhoods. Dispatch centers in Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach answered calls from residents who noticed the smoke and smelled its strong odor. In Norfolk, firefighters were so busy they reduced the number of trucks they sent to fire calls.

The North Carolina wildfire, which has burned for more than a week, spread even more Tuesday, growing to 40,195 acres, or nearly 63 square miles – larger than the city of Richmond.

(hat tip: cvillenews)

More at the Hook.

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Old Crozet School Reuse study

Get your planning and community involvement hats on!

Old Crozet School Reuse Study Community Workshop – Your Ideas are Needed! June 19, 20 & 21 Western Albemarle High School 5941 Rockfish Gap Turnpike

On June 19, 20 & 21 at Western Albemarle High School, Albemarle County will be holding a series of community workshop activities for the Crozet community to identify potential new uses for the Old Crozet School building and site, as identified in the Crozet Master Plan.

The workshop will offer some new and varied ways for you to participate, so we encourage to attend any or all of the activities listed below.

The community process for the Old School Reuse Study is being guided by a committee of Crozet citizens and County staff. Recommendations from the final report will be presented to the Board of Supervisors for consideration as a possible future project to be included in the County’s capital budget.

Schedule of Activities: June 19, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Opening Presentation and Goals Worksession: The kick-off participatory worksession with citizens to collect ideas for re-using the Old Crozet School building and site.

June 20, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Community Workshop Open House Day 1

June 21, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Community Workshop Open House Day 2

June 21, 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Concluding Presentation of Concepts

For Open House Days, drop-in anytime during the day to work with the design team to develop concepts for the school building and site. Onsite interviews with the design team can be arranged by contacting 757-303-8922.

You can also send your ideas using their web comment form. For additional information, visit the Old Crozet School Webpage or contact Britton Miller at 434-972-4176

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More information about Crozet’s zoning

Read more at Charlottesville Tomorrow.

“The intent is to implement what the Crozet Master Plan has called for in Downtown, as well as to promote the economic and social vitality,” Cilimberg said. “We hope that it can lead to in-fill and redevelopment opportunities being realized… and also be unique to what the character of Crozet is.”

This qualifies as a “good thing” in my book.

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Biking around Crozet

I’m embarking on a shift in how I get around. and I’m hoping to demonstrate the relative ease of biking around Crozet.

Riding to the farmers’s market on Saturday mornings, to Great Valu for a few groceries, to the drop-off point to pick up my weekly CSA share, over to Old Trail for meetings, to the BP to pick up the Crozet Gazette, to the Pool, Mint Springs Park, to Highlands to show a house that I’m marketing … The possibilities for riding a bike instead of driving are many.

Gas prices are affecting everyone.

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If you’re willing to join me in my effort to think differently, let me know in the comments.

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Crozet real estate market update – June 2008

This month I am trying something new for RealCrozetVA. Some of you may know that I am a Realtor and write a real estate blog focused on the Charlottesville/Central Virginia market. I have been reluctant to post about the Crozet real estate market because the intent of RealCrozetVA is to be a community resource, not a site by which I would sell my services. With that preface, what follows is a brief market update for Crozet – in the interest of providing information that fellow Crozetians want (and may need).

– Currently there are 187 residential properties on the market in Crozet – 64 of these are new construction.

– 44 residential properties are under contract – 18 of these are new construction.

– 59 properties have sold so far this year – 20 of these were marked in the Charlottesville MLS as being new construction.

– Currently, the average Days on Market for active and under contract properties is 161 days.

All told, there are about 13 months of inventory on the market in Crozet right now.*

The Crozet area has also seen the bulk of building permits in recent history (click image for a larger version) –

Next month I will present neighborhood-specific market data.

If you have any questions or there is any additional information/data you would like to see, please feel free to contact me through RealCentralVA or RealCrozetVA.

* Absorption rate – Number of months it takes to sell the current inventory at the present rate of sales.

* I limited the area to the Brownsville and Crozet Elementary School districts – I have found this to be the best way to geographically drill down and isolate within Albemarle County.

* Thanks to Brian Wheeler and his SchoolMatters blog (all Crozetians should subscribe to it by the way) for the graph.

* You can search for homes in Crozet by going here and mousing over to the Crozet tab on the far right.