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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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Help out the Crozet Community – volunteer for the CCAC

Albemarle County are looking for applicants for the Crozet Community Advisory Council. Selfishly, I would love for a representative of the CCAC to write a story on RealCrozetVA after the meetings to keep readers updated on the direction that Crozet may go.

For better or worse, our daily lives are significantly impacted by the conclusions reached and decisions made in mundane, monotonous often boring yet crucially important meetings.

Are you interested in being an active and engaged part in critical issues that will help shape Crozet’s future? If so, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors is strongly encouraging you to apply for one of several open positions on the Crozet Community Advisory Council (CCAC).

The CCAC was created by the Board two years ago as an advisory committee to assist County staff and the Board of Supervisors with civic/community issues related to implementation of the Crozet Master Plan. The membership is broad-based to incorporate a variety of perspectives and ideas and to provide citizens, businesspersons and representatives of active community groups a chance to be engaged and be heard in a constructive and meaningful way.

The 15-member group meets monthly and is active in partnering with the County on a variety of critical projects including the streetscape project, the Crozet Library, the Western Park master plan, and the downtown zoning project. Members serve a two-year term and are eligible for reappointment for a total of two terms.

The CCAC needs the continued energy and commitment of Crozet residents to continue the good work started in the group’s first two years and to keep momentum going on major infrastructure projects underway like the downtown revitalization and the library. Anyone interested in learning more about the Council or in getting an application can contact the County Community Relations Office at (434)296-5841 or can visit the Albemarle County website.

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Crozet Schools Redistricting update

Via Schoolmatters.

Boundary Adjustments – The first phase of adjustments will examine different options for moving students from Crozet Elementary to Brownsville Elementary for the fall of 2009. Staff is currently reviewing 5-year projections, numbers of students at each grade level, current location of students, and predicted growth to develop viable options to be presented to the community in May. After the community presentation. a web-site will be developed to receive input through the summer. Staff will then consider the input, look at September 30th enrollment numbers, and finalize options to be brought forward to the Superintendent and ultimately to the School Board.

Over the next year, staff will toke (sic) a comprehensive look at capacity, projected enrollment numbers, and anticipated growth to address capacity issues for the entire Division. Topics of discussion will include the current structure of K-5, 6-8, and 9-12, assumptions regarding feeder patterns, and routing of buses.

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This week in Crozet – 17 March – 23 March

“The meeting on March 11 was held at Henley — and was really lively and worthwhile!

Her next Town Hall meeting, this coming Tuesday, March 18, will be held at the White Hall Community Center. Same time:  6:30-9:30 pm.

The final one will be on Tuesday, March 25, at Broadus Wood Elementary in Earlysville.

All White Hall district residents are welcome!”

Thanks to a reader for sending this in. Are there any comments or feedback from the meeting? As always, if you have an announcement, please let me know.

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Crozet Gateway Moving forward

Take a picture of the intersection of 240 and 250. It won’t be the same. dead link

… the Board of Supervisors approved a site plan for a new development at a key intersection in Crozet. –   The Crozet Gateway project will redevelop a 2 acre site at the corner of Route 240 and Route 250 near Brownsville Elementary School.  The existing convenience store will be replaced with two multi-story commercial buildings, a use allowed by-right on the property.

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Crozet’s first denial under the new management

From Charlottesville Tomorrow:

After her report, Tom Loach was the first to pose a question to Ragsdale. Before being appointed to the White Hall seat on the Commission by newly-elected Supervisor Ann Mallek, Loach was an outspoken critic of the implementation of the Crozet Master Plan.

Loach said he could not support the rezoning because in his view it is not consistent with the Crozet Master Plan.

“I look at the Master Plan, I was part of the [committee] that wrote this, I know what the intent of the Master Plan was, and I don’t think this meets the Master Plan as I know it,” Loach said.

Good or bad? What do you think?

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