Crozet's community blog
I’m not sure if any schools in Crozet are participating, but I think they all should. “The first-ever National Bike to School Day took place on May 9, 2012, in coordination with the League of American Bicyclists’ National Bike Month. Almost 1,000 local events in 49 states and the District of Columbia joined together to encourage …
Click through to read the @Storify I just put together curating a lot of the tweets from last night’s meeting. I have to say: tweeting of tonight’s meeting was pretty successful with the #westalbRD Could not be done with Google plus or Facebook. — Jim Duncan (@JimDuncan) December 12, 2012 Once again, Kelly has provided …
Continue reading “Tweeting the Western Albemarle Redistricting Meeting – 12-11-12”
Big thanks go to the Crozet PTO for organizing today’s Walk to School Day. In spite of the sudden rain, a lot of families continued on and made it to school on foot and bike without incident. I hear the next Walk to School day is March 9.
October 5 is International Walk to School Day.
Remember the Walk to School grant for the part of Crozet near Crozet Elementary? So did a concerned parent who asked the County for an update, and received this response. From Jack Kelsey with Albemarle County: Regarding the Safe Routes to School Project, the short answer is that it’s being designed by David Anhold & …
Continue reading “Update on the “Safe Routes to School” Grant”
Agenda Review. (Meg Holden – CCAC Chair) 2. Approval of Minutes from August 18, 2011 meeting. 3. Public Comment 4. Updates on Claudius Place and Crozet Square developments (Katurah Roells) 5. Follow-up on discussion about children walking and biking to area schools. 6. Follow-up on Jarman’s Gap/Old Trail Drive detention pond concerns 7. Sub-committees, ombudsman …
Continue reading “CCAC Meeting This Thursday, 15 September 2011”
Crozet Community Association (CCA) Meeting Agenda September 8, 2011 at 7:30 PM, The Field School Auditorium Agenda after the jump:
More context to come, but for now … I asked Crozetians for the services of a teenager to photograph the walk from Trailside Coffee in Old Trail to Henley Middle School. From sidewalks to paths to the bridge back to a path, it looks like a pretty nice walk to me. To the kid who …
Continue reading “Walking from Trailside Coffee to Henley Middle School”
Next time, follow @RealCrozetVA on Twitter. Or better yet, come next month and live-tweet it with me. Who knew walking to school would be such a contentious issue? I’ll say only this: parents should exercise their rights to allow their children to walk to school, even in the face of oppressive schools with absurd policies …
Continue reading “CCAC Meeting 16 June 2011 – Claudius Place, Library Parking Lot, Lumberyard & …”
It’s Bike Month ; the folks at Bike Charlottesville have coordinated an outstanding set of events which I encourage you to participate in any way that you can. … I tried to revitalize the Walk To School program at Crozet Elementary, but ran into so many bureaucratic and “worried about liability” impediments that I conceded to those concerns. … Rather than try to work within the defined systems, I’ll simply keep riding my bike with my daughter to school, wear my helmet inside the school to encourage conversations with kids who will hopefully pester their parents and continue trying to both set and example and “walk the walk”, if you will. … Please take the time to read Seth Godin’s “Times a Million” post from 2007; it made a real impact on how I think and the decisions I make.