Phase 2 – Crozet Avenue : Utilities must be moved and all right-of-way acquired before we’ll get VDOT approval to move into the construction phase. … I I’ve been working a long time to resolve the owner issues for one right-of-way dedication and I’m hoping to get word that they’re ready to sign later this week. … VDOT had a parking plan prepared (by our consultant) to serve as the cost basis for their acquisition of the Jarmans Gap Road right-of-way. It also was to serve as a means to demonstrate how the Church and Blue Goose future parking plans and our proposed shared entrance onto Crozet Avenue would work in concert.
This is What the Renovated Barnes Lumber Property May Look Like
Read the whole story at the Crozet Gazette . Barnes Lumber Redevelopment Plan in Crozet The plan submitted by PDG includes an 600-foot-long pedestrian mall in the center of the project, anchored at the west end by a large building. Roell said a national firm that builds boutique hotels is interested in the site. Other features include the extension of Library Avenue (still an unofficial name for the road partially constructed in downtown) to connect to Parkside Village and a walking path junction in the southeast corner of the property nearest to Claudius Crozet Park that will connect downtown to the extensive system of trails laid out in the Crozet Master Plan.
Update on Status of Crozet Projects
Thanks to Tim Tolson for putting this together.
This is an update from Trevor Henry, Capital Program Manager in the County’s Office of Facilities Development.
He met with the Project Manager’s (PMs) on the various Crozet Projects (Library/Main Street – Ron Lilley; Crozet Ave/Utilities – Jack Kelsey; Storm Water – Gregor Patsch) and assembled the attached update. I have also posted this update, along with the still current October 2008 drawing of the planned improvements for StreetScape II, in our CCAC bulletin board in the Crozet Post Office.
Restore N Station Is Going to Happen
From the Newsplex :
Following a compromise between the Board of Supervisors and project developer, Jo Higgins, the 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 and will operate for 16 hours a day instead of 24.
BoS Likes Crozet Master Plan Revisions
And the Crozet Gazette has the story .
Crozet’s “Downtown Mall”?
Now that the Crozet Community Advisory Council has given their endorsement … what do the rest of you think? A group that oversees planning in Crozet has endorsed a new concept to redevelop a lumber yard on the Square into a walkable and livable community similar to Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall. “We need a pedestrian mall in Crozet,” said Mike Marshall, chairman of the Crozet Community Advisory Council. … Bruce Barnes Lumber Yard and CSX railroad property to allow for future development as part of the Crozet Master Plan.
Crozet Community Advisory Council Meeting Thursday 19 August
The representatives (Katurah Roell and Kelly Strickland) shared this concept with Mike Marshall, Chair of CCAC, Tom Loach, our local Planning Commission member and Chair of same, Ann Mallek, our Board of Supervisors representative, and Albemarle County planning staff last week. … This issue was the major topic of discussion at the last CCAC meeting and at that meeting a different decision was made that was passed on to the Planning Commission for their end of July meeting. However, after looking at the possible development scenario, the representatives gave reasons for making it all “Downtown Zoning” that were compelling enough that Mike and Tom felt that the full CCAC and public should re-look at the recommended Future Land Use Plan for this area. They would like for the CCAC to consider a recommendation to put the references to the need for employment/office R&D Flex in Downtown in the text rather than showing it graphically on the Plan.
Pedestrian Mall in Crozet?
He asked the commission for flexibility in language that would define where light industrial uses would be allowed on the 20-acre parcel. Commercial uses on the parcel, cur- rently zoned heavy industrial, would presumably fall under the rules for the adjoining Downtown Crozet District, which are designed to cre- ate a walkable, traditional down- town business district with a mix of apartments and shops. Interviewed later, Conley said that discussion of the plan that has been submitted to county planners, planning commissioners and super- visors for reaction was premature, but that he believed that county leaders would like the concept. … The concept shows a central, 600-foot pedestrian mall flanked by three- and four-story buildings and the extension of Main Street to Parkside Village with two- and three-story buildings along it, a small park, a greenspace median and numerous parking areas.
Yancey Business Park Shot Down
Charlottesville Tomorrow reports :
While Albemarle County is seeking to increase its industrial and commercial land activity, proposals reviewed as part of the Crozet Master Plan to build a new business park and convert some residential homes to mixed use have been rejected by the Planning Commission . The one thing I have not yet heard or read is what types of businesses might be in the business park. That would be helpful.
Crozet Master Plan Meeting Tonight – 13 July 2010
CPA200900002 Crozet Master Plan 5 Year Update Amend the Land Use Plan section of the Albemarle County Comprehensive Plan by replacing the existing profile for the Community of Crozet and the Crozet Master Plan with a revised Crozet Master Plan, which establishes new land use policies, guidelines, recommendations, goals and strategies for future development within the master plan area, which may include or exclude lands beyond those described in the existing neighborhood and community profile and the removal of an approximately 29-acre portion of TMP 56-66 (NE of Firehouse Lane) from the Community of Crozet boundaries.
The master plan would establish the following for the master plan area: a vision for the area and guiding principles; land use designations and centers, mixed use areas, employment areas, residential areas, preservation areas; a plan for the transportation network, and its integration with the land uses; a plan for providing and supporting community facilities and services; a plan for parks and green systems; and a plan for implementing the master plan. In conjunction with the Crozet Master Plan, the following will also be considered: (1) CPA 2006-02, to remove the proposed road shown in the Crozet Master Plan across TMP 56- 14D; (2) CPA 2007-002, US Route 250/Crozet Avenue (NW Corner)-Ploumis property (TMP 56-16), a proposal to amend the Crozet Master Plan from Development Area Preserve and Development Area Reserve (CT 1& CT2) to Urban Center/Mixed use (CT5); and (3) CPA 2008-002, Yancey Mills Business Park, located near 6317 Rockfish Gap Tpke and I-64, to amend the Land Use Plan from Rural Areas to Industrial Service, a proposal not within the Crozet Master Plan boundaries but considered with the Crozet Master Plan studyprocess. Copies of the full text of the Crozet Master Plan and related maps are on file in the office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and in the Department of Community Development, County Office Building, 401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville, Virginia