Crozet had only the one (now defunct) coffee shop (now offices) instead of three?
And only one place to watch games? (now the Mudhouse) And you could smoke there?!
Morning at Mint Springs
It’s going to be a hot and humid week. Mint Springs is a good place to spend part of that week.
2nd Downtown Crozet Initiative Meeting – 11 June 2015
via email:
The second community meeting for The Downtown Crozet Initiative: A Vision for Barnes Lumber.
Residents and business owners of Crozet are invited to the second community meeting to review possible designs for the Barnes Lumber civic space and transportation infrastructure, and discuss next steps for the downtown initiative. The designs that will be presented were based on ideas and feedback received at the May 27 community meeting, which was held at the Field School.
Walk-ins will be welcome. Childcare will be provided, but families needing this service must RSVP at http://goo.gl/forms/2744WRgI4c.
WHEN: Thursday, June 11, 2015
5:30 p.m. – Registration and Refreshments
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Community Meeting
WHERE: Crozet Elementary School
(Note: This is a new location. There will be air conditioning!)
1407 Crozet Ave.
Crozet, VA 22932
WHY: These public meetings were created to gather feedback and generate ideas relating to transforming the Barnes Lumber site into an accessible, successful and vibrant center for downtown Crozet. Attendees are invited to share thoughts and ideas to help grow the heart of Crozet.
June 2015 Crozet Gazette is Full of Great Stuff
June’s Crozet Gazette is jammed full of great stuff. A few highlights:
- There’s a new restaurant coming to the intersection of 240 and 250.
- The former Claudius Place has been purchased by Drew & Michelle Holzwarth. It’s going to be a market akin to the Main Street Market in Charlottesville and high-end apartments. (really, read this whole story)
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Organic Turkey Farm coming to Crozet. (good discussion here from 1 May)
- New “Natural Play Space” coming to Western Albemarle (this is super-cool!)
- The Town Turned Out to Give its vision for Downtown Crozet and the former Barnes Lumberyard. (recap from the town hall here)
- The White Hall district has a competitive school board race! (finally!)
- The Dog Park has received a $10K challenge grant.
3 New Businesses Coming to Downtown Crozet
Downtown Crozet’s about to get a bit more active.
Charlottesville Tomorrow reports:
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors recently approved leases for Staengl Engineering, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Crozet Artisan Depot.
I hope some of these folks will be walking or riding bicycles to and from work.
As a side note, I’ve added “Downtown Crozet” as a category.
Homework for the Next Crozet Town Hall – 11 June 2015
We all have some homework to do.
*** Update: this has been moved to Crozet Elementary ***
I could attempt to summarize the 25 page recap of last week’s Crozet Town Hall, but really, if you’re interested, please take the time to read (or at least, skim) this excellent summary. It’s a PDF. Download it. Read it. Print it if you have to.
This will give you a taste of what’s included.
After presentations and discussion, meeting participants broke out into five small groups to share their ideas and feedback for the site. Discussion was guided by a facilitator and a designer sketched ideas into a drawing of the site. After each of the small groups met, the group reconvened in a large group. Each group presented to the large group their top three ideas for the site. The designers will use these ideas to create design options that will be presented at the June 11th public meeting.
Below are summaries from each of the small group designs and discussions. A summary of the individual concerns, feedback and questions from individual participants in a Appendix A, a list of meeting participants in Appendix B, and the Planning Committee overview document that was referred to at the meeting in Appendix C. The next Public Meeting will be on Thursday, June 11th from 6-9 pm to review and provide feedback on draft plans based on community input designs. Meeting participants are welcome to contact Reed and Christine of Dialogue + Design Associates with any questions or feedback at [email protected] or [email protected].
If you’re going to be vocal, might as well do the homework to be informed.