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

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Please take the time to read this; it is one of the most important aspects of how Crozet is going to grow. … 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.”

Family Yoga at Old Crozet School Arts

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A family-friendly yoga class is being organized by Old Crozet School Arts . It will be offered on Thursday afternoons from 1:30-2:30PM at family-friendly prices. Please let Sarah Zmick know if you are interested. [email protected] Classes will begin as soon as possible (in the next week or two).

Anyone in Crozet Missing a Pigeon?

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I think this email is cool for two reasons: 1 – Someone has 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 …

What Do you Think about The Block Schedule?

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If you’re a parent (or kid) at Western Albemarle High School, you’ve had an interesting year learning the affects and impacts of the block schedule. What are your thoughts? How has it affected you and your kid(s)?

Restore N Station – The Final Chapter?

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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

… 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. 

…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).