PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING ON THE DRAFT CROZET MASTER PLAN REVISION The public is invited to provide comments regarding proposed revisions to the Crozet Master Plan at a Planning Commission Public Hearing on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 6:00 p.m. in the Lane Auditorium at the County Office Building on McIntire Road. On July 6, materials related to the Master Plan revision process will be available online at www.albemarle.org/crozet , at the Community Development lobby and at the Crozet Library.
Restore N Station Special Use Permit Denied
“We shouldn’t have to justify our right to clean water and air.” Great work by the Crozet Gazette.
Express Your Opinion on the Crozet Master Plan
Charlottesville Tomorrow reports : Having been heard on their demands for lower population projections, no expansion of the growth area, and preservation of the downtown business district, the Crozet community appears to be largely in favor of the village’s updated 20-year Master Plan. … At a recent meeting, the board decided to hold roundtables on June 23 and July 1 on the action plan to get additional public input. … Rooker addressed the question of whether the action plan opened the door for Yancey’s business park being located outside the growth area at the I-64 interchange in Crozet. … “My idea was to try and get some changes in [the action plan] that made it more consistent with the existing Comprehensive Plan ….
Restore N Station Hearings in June
From a comment : Two important public hearings for the proposed ReStore ‘N Station are coming up and it is critical that people attend these meetings if they are concerned about the size and character of a huge gas station/truck stop proposed for Route 250 West. … Here are two hearings where your attendance is needed to: · Show your support for the adjoining neighborhood’s attempt to scale back the size and use of the project; · Note your concern about a large project like this proposed to be built near three schools on Scenic Route 250. 1) Tuesday, June 1 at 2 p.m. for a Board of Zonings Appeals (BZA) Hearing and 2) Tuesday, June 8 at 6 p.m. for a Planning Commission Public Hearing Don’t feel like you need to speak at these meetings, just showing up is important! … You also might have children going to one of the nearby three schools and are interested in showing support for scaling back the size of the project. (from email by Mary Rice) — At the very least, couldn’t they come up with a better name than “Restore N Station”?
Restore N Station On Hold?
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 . 🙂
Crozet Community Advisory Council – Thursday 15 April
If you live in Crozet, you really should consider attending some of the CCAC’s meetings … it’s where you can learn and give input about Crozet’s growth and development. A reminder that the Crozet Community Advisory Council’s (CCAC) monthly meeting is this Thursday, April 15, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM at the Meadows (off Route 240, south of town). Everyone is encourage to attend. The Council’s meeting agenda, minutes, membership, etc. are all posted on the Albemarle County web site at: http://www.albemarle.org/ccac/ The tentative agenda for this Thursday’s meeting is as follows: • Agenda Review (Mike Marshall – CCAC Chair) • Approval of Minutes (CCAC) • CCAC New Members (LEE) • Master Plan 2009 Update Process (REBECCA/ELAINE) • Discussion regarding recommended revisions for area north of Downtown to Wayland Drive, including property owner input • Next steps in master plan process • Project Updates • Re-store’n Station Review Status (April 20 Planning Commission public hearing on special use permit) • Other announcements • Adjourn
Time to Wake up the Bedroom Community Citizens of Crozet!
It was announced tonight at the Crozet Community Association meeting that there is going to be a Master Plan review and meeting on Thursday, January 21st whose purpose (for one) will bring to light an idea that at least one person in our community claims will supply the revenue generating light industrial growth that Crozet (by way of our growth-area designation in the county) is destined to support. … The vision of retaining the downtown area and building it up to support sustainable and healthy growth alongside the tracks and within walking distance of community services already in place, will become nothing but a memory if the car and semi-truck driven sprawl is allowed to go in where it is proposed. … If we do not interact, speak-up and have a hand in the sustainable design of our town here- it will not be a tool in our hands- but in the hands of those that would profit from mindless business-as-usual sprawl. … People that live in Crozet can affect how and where that revenue-creating light industrial growth is to occur by becoming the community that we claim we came here to be part of.
Crozet Public Meeting – Thursday 21 January
The Yancey family has submitted a Comprehensive Plan amendment to rezone 84 acres on the southeast corner of the Interstate 64/Route 250 intersection to ‘light industrial’ for the construction of an industrial park that would contain from 1.1 million to 1.8 million square feet of buildings. On January 21 at 7 p.m. at the Field School (the Old Crozet Elementary School across from the current Crozet Elementary School), the public will have a chance to react to a county study on light industrial land in the County, and give county staff you input regarding the study, which will include a section that addresses this proposed rezoning. … As Mike Marshall, editor of the Crozet Gazette said in this month’s issue: “… [the] adoption of the Yancey proposal would likely shift the economic center of Crozet to Rt. 250 and result in a commercial highway build-up at the Interstate similar to what we see happening in Waynesboro, and many other Virginia towns that have sadly lost their traditional walkable downtowns to sprawl. … The Board of Supervisors last week adopted an “action plan” that included the following item regarding the Yancey property – “Yancey Mills and 250 East Corridor from 1-64 to Shadwell Store – The report on available light industrial zoning should be expedited and a report on the possibility of expansion of this type of zoning in these areas should be brought back to the board in the first quarter of the year for discussion and possible action.”
Crozet Gazette Pulls No Punches
The decision of the departing Kaine administration to bailout the investors in Biscuit Run, the largest subdivision ever approved in Albemarle County, and turn it into a state park will add to growth pressure in Crozet once the housing market begins to revive, which, we nonetheless hope, comes soon. The addition of Biscuit Run’s 3,100 houses to the Albemarle market with better proximity to Charlottesville meant homebuyers had an attractive alternative at a time when county policies were aiming growth on Crozet and claiming that it could handle a population of 24,000. … And about that $9.8 million: hasn’t Crozet been told for the last 12 years that there is no VDOT money to pay for Jarmans Gap Road improvements, and more recently that there is no funding possible for Crozet library ($6.3 million), the number one priority library on the state library’s list of construction projects? Thus the poor Virginia tax payer now has to pay to master plan and then operate in perpetuity a state park he had no idea he wanted, in a place he probably would not have picked, and to make up millions in tax revenue that was forfeited in the form of credits.
VDOT Takes on Old Trail Drive
Thanks to Channel 29 : (bolding mine) A new Albemarle County Board of Supervisor’s resolution calls for a nearly one-mile stretch of Old Trail Drive in Crozet to be accepted into the state road system. Part of it was accepted into the system 2009, so this will complete the process. … “Old Trail Drive, in its entire length from Jarmans Gap Road to the other connection point at Route 250, has always been intended to be a pretty major traffic thoroughfare in Crozet ,” she said. … There have been discussions over the years on RealCrozetVA about the accessibility of Old Trail Drive, and now it’s officially a public road.