Restore N Station On Hold?

In Crozet, Growth, Politics, real estate by Jim2 Comments

The Newsplex is reporting : Plans for a proposed gas station in Crozet remain on hold until June after a group of residents file an appeal.

…View Crozet, Virginia, USA in a larger map Background reading: – Public Hearing on 20 April – Gas Station coming to 250 in Crozet – Close-Knit Free Town is Feeling Squeezed Learn more at the County of Albemarle’s site : PROJECT: SP200900034 RE-STORE’N STATION PROPOSED: Use of more than 400 gallons of groundwater per site-acre per day for convenience store. ZONING CATEGORY/GENERAL USAGE: HC, Highway Commercial – retail sales and service uses; and residential use by special use permit (15 units/ acre); EC Entrance Corridor – Overlay to protect properties of historic, architectural or cultural significance from visual impacts of development along routes of tourist access SECTION: 24.2.2.13, Uses permitted by right, not served by public water, involving water consumption exceeding four hundred (400) gallons per site acre per day. … COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE/DENSITY: Rural Areas – preserve and protect agricultural, forestal, open space, and natural, historic and scenic resources/ density ( .5 unit/ acre in development lots) ENTRANCE CORRIDOR: Yes LOCATION: US 250 (Rockfish Gap Turnpike) approximately 1,600 feet (0.3 miles) west of Western Albemarle High School TAX MAP/PARCEL: Tax Map 55B Parcel 1 MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT: Whitehall   By the way, I am marketing a great house on Free Town Lane . 🙂

Public Hearing on Restore N Station – 20 April 2010

In Crozet, real estate by Jim3 Comments

Public Hearing for Proposed Gas Station/Convenience Store on Route 250 – Before the Albemarle County Planning Commission There will be a public hearing for the proposed RestoreNStation gas station/convenience store looking to be located on Route 250 on April 20 at 6 p.m. at the Downtown County Office Building, Lane Auditorium, on the 2nd floor. … A VDOT traffic study is currently completed in order to fulfill a legal requirement for the project, as the applicant projects that the project will generate at least 2,500 additional trips on Route 250 per day- 25% more trips than are currently recorded on that section of Route 250. … Any applicant needs to get a Special Use Permit to build when the County determines that you are going to pull more than 400 gallons of water per site acre per day for a project. The site is approximately 4 acres in size, which would give the applicant an allotment of 1,600 gallons of water per day to pull from the ground, (4 acres x 400 gallons per site acre per day).

Crozet Home Sales and Contracts in March

In Crozet, real estate by JimLeave a Comment

I also expect that that “nine” will increase by a few as transactions are closed out over the next few days. Even more heartening is the fact that properties placed under contract in Crozet are double last year as well. … As always, if you have any questions about the Crozet real estate market, please contact me . … If you want to receive real estate market updates for the Crozet area, please sign up here .

Crozet Housing Prices and School Quality

In Politics, real estate, Schools by Jim12 Comments

All the data in the world isn’t going to change my opinion, either as a Realtor or as a parent, that good, quality schools matter – to our kids and to our housing values.

…However, when purchasing a home, individuals do appear to consider the current test performance of students in the local school rather than the extent to which a community’s schools contribute to a cohort’s test performance.

… Brian Wheeler has presented a post with hard numbers – numbers that put into context what an increase in property taxes would mean for you – something that has been mostly lacking from most discussions I have read.

… … In an effort to get my head around the numbers, I have prepared the attached spreadsheet which evaluates (to the best of my ability with the data available) , the impact of the different budget scenarios and what different property tax rate increases necessary to close the funding gap.

Charlottesville regional real estate market update

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Download a copy of the Nest Report, which is what we believe to be the best, most “comprehensive and transparent analysis of the residential real estate market in Charlottesville, Albemarle and surrounding counties, prepared quarterly by Nest Realty Group .”

…Employment numbers continue to creep higher throughout the country and the state; national debt and deficit levels are of a constant concern; the foreclosures and short sales will increase; and yet there are positive signs that our market is making a stride toward normalcy. … And while statewide and nationwide unemployment numbers are up, Charlottesville has fallen for four straight months (Aug thru Nov) to 5.1%, which is lower than we have seen since December of 2008.

…We will go into this in more detail, but the basic issue is that Short Sales are up all across our state, and Charlottesville is not completely immune.

How Often Do Homes Turnover in Crozet?

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Basically, if you sold your house last year in Crozet* and it fit one of these two criteria, you were pretty lucky.

…Market report for homes in Grayrock and Grayrock North , provided by my real estate brokerage, Nest Realty Group. … Market report for homes in Cory Farm , provided by my real estate brokerage, Nest Realty Group. … Market report for homes in Cory Farm, provided by my real estate brokerage , Nest Realty Group.