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Crozet Master Plan is Approved – Three “Centers” of Crozet

Charlottesville Tomorrow has the story. Please take the time to read this; it is one of the most important aspects of how Crozet is going to grow.

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved an update of the Crozet Master Plan. The amendments to the twenty-year plan lower the ultimate population potential and seek to focus the community’s growth into three distinct areas.
“The master plan continues to emphasize redevelopment of downtown,” said David Benish, Albemarle’s chief of planning at a public hearing last Wednesday. “Changes to the plan put greater emphasis on the three centers that have emerged, which is the Clover Lawn area, the Old Trail area and downtown.”

Coming Thursday – Does the CCAC wield too much influence?

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Anyone in Crozet Missing a Pigeon?

I think this email is cool for two reasons:

1 – Someone has a pigeon.

2 – Crozet’s small enough to ask “anyone.”

Is anyone missing a pigeon?  We have a banded pigeon living in our garage, who’s been at our house since Tuesday.  We don’t mind caring for him, but he appears to be well cared for, so we’d like to find it’s owner, and return it.  Please give me a call at 434-409-2041 if this looks like yours …

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Restore N Station Will Be Smaller

Read about it at NBC29.

More + comments at WCAV. Update 2018: now bad link.

Finally a compromise was reached:

The Re-Store N’ Station will move forward as a 3,000 square foot facility instead of 6,000 square feet.

-It will house five pumps with ten nozzles, instead of eight pumps with 16 nozzles.
-The gas station will operate for 16 hours/day instead of 24.

-No overnight parking will be allowed.

-A flow valve condition must be in place to avoid water run off.

-Rainwater will be collected to water the landscaping around the station, via a lined underground tank.

Thanks to the paid journalists for staying up so late to report on this. Wouldn’t it be cool if the Board of Supervisors streamed their meetings?

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I neglected to post this conversation from Tuesday’s Coy Barefoot show – Charlottesville Right Now– Is a Sheetz coming to Crozet?

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Restore N Station – The Final Chapter?

I’m trying hard to explicitly not be for or against the Restore N Station, but to provide a discussion and news forum about it. If anyone with the Restore N Station would like to make their case here, they’re more than welcome. But … the “shut off valve” seems absurd.

Background:

So, Is the Restore N Station Getting Built?

Restore N Station *Does* Need a Special Use Permit

More

With that preface, I received the following from Mary Rice:

The proposed mega gas station/convenience store truck stop – Restore N Station  – is coming up for THE big determining vote at the Board of Supervisors on
 
Wednesday, October 13 at 6 p.m.
It is once again critical that we get a large group of people at this meeting and that we have people contacting the Board prior to the vote to tell them what you think about the project as this is the vote that will determine whether or not the project gets built. 
We need you to send the Board a quick e-mail and we need you to come to this meeting! 

You can e-mail the Board at [email protected]

We had a good group of people at the Planning Commission hearing and I am quite sure it was the intelligent comments of the community and the public presence that made the Planning Commission deny the Special Use Permit.  However, that vote was only a recommendation, and was not the final word on the Special Use Permit.   This vote by the Board will be the determining vote.   

Both the Chief of Zoning and the Planning Commission have now ruled that they believe it is likely that the project will use more than its allotment of 1,624 gallons of water per day from its well, and therefore, requires a Special Use Permit.  Despite requests, there has been no traffic study, no independent study by the County to investigate the effect this project will have on adjacent neighbor’s wells, and no County analysis of the usage comparables submitted by the applicant, although there is compelling evidence to suggest that those comparables are not at all correct,  (see attached information from Goeke).

Recently, the applicant responded to this ruling on expected water overuse by proposing to use a shut-off valve to cap the amount of water it pulls from its well.  The valve would shut the pump off after it had pumped 1,624 gallons in a 24 hour period.  This shut-off valve seems an unsatisfactory solution for a business that has been deemed by the County to need more water than will be let through the valve.  What will the business do when it runs out of water?  Turn off the hand washing sinks?   Go back to the County for a higher allowable limit at the expense of neighbors’ wells? 
 
Please refresh yourselves on this important issue and let the Board know what you think.  I have attached some talking points.  It seems that the least the Board could do is request a traffic study and subsequently, an independent water study that will show the affect that an excessive water draw would have on neighbors’ wells. 
 
Thanks,  Mary Rice
 

The referenced PDFs:

Background on Board of Supervisors Special Use Permit Oct 13

Re-Store N Station Power Point by Goeke

Re-Store ‘N Station letter from Goeke

Update 12 October 2010:

This from the Crozet Community Advisory Council:

The proposed mega gas station/convenience store truck stop – Restore N Station – is coming up for THE big determining vote at the Board of Supervisors this Wednesday, October 13 at 6 PM at the Lane Auditorium in the County Office Building on McIntire Road.

Remember that we (the CCAC) has been advocating for a more appropriately sized station, an independent water study and a traffic study for awhile now. I include our two resolutions, both passed unanimously as a reminder of where the CCAC publicly stands on the Restore ‘N Station project.

If you need more background/reminder about this project, please see the latest edition of the Crozet Gazette
or you can e-mail Mary Rice at [email protected].

You can also see Jim Duncan’s web site, Real Crozet,
http://www.realcrozetva.com/2010/08/24/so-is-the-restore-n-station-getting-built/

It is once again critical that we attend this meeting and that we let the Board know what we think about the project as this is the vote that will determine whether or not the project gets built. We should also be reminding our friends and neighbors they need to do the same.