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Don’t forget to pick up this month’s Crozet Gazette. It’s chock full of good stories, including a very cool photo and story of the Sugar Hollow Dam’s history and construction.
Download the entire thing as a PDF here.
Three other great stories this month –
– Master Plan Revision Forum Tackles Roads, Trails
On Friday January 15th at 7 p.m at Field School, we will be having our third speakers series event, one that has featured Michael Thompson, Joe Ehrmann and Nick Nichols over the past three years. This year, we are hosting Joe and Claudia Allen, research professors at U.Va. who have written Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How we can help our teenagers grow up before they grow old.
The next meeting of the Crozet Community Association will be at 7:30 on Thursday, January 14 at 7:30 in The Field School.
If anyone wants to write a story for RealCrozetVA about this meeting, please feel free to do so. As thanks, I’ll buy you a cup of coffee, hot chocolate, tea or water. 🙂
Editor’s Note: I’m re-printing the entirety of the Henley Middle School newsletter because there’s quite a bit of interesting stuff there – calendar, school budgets, trip to Panama, CATEC seeking people … I’m sorry about the formatting, but it was frankly a lot easier to simply copy and paste. I do encourage folks to at least scan the bolded parts (which I’ve done) –
The School Budget Public Hearing will be on February 2, 2010 6:30 pm at the Albemarle County Office Building, Lane Auditorium (2nd floor). Public input on the budget is a critical component of the budget-making process. If you wish to speak, the sign-in sheet is usually made available early. Speakers are called to the podium in the order in which they signed in; they can speak for a maximum of three minutes. Additional information will be distributed as it becomes available. If you have any questions, please contact Parent Counsel Representative, Robin LeGallo at [email protected].
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Read the whole thing at the Crozet Gazette.
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. In those days Biscuit Run promised to vent some of the steam away from western Albemarle.
It’s hard to imagine that if the Commonwealth actually thought it needed a state park in Albemarle that it would have hankered for the 1,200 acres Biscuit Run sits on.
My favorite part?
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.
Well Said.
Update 8 January 2010 – Quite a bit of news coverage today centered on Biscuit Run’s dedication as a state park.
Biscuit Run State Park Opponent Says Deal Unfair to Albemarle County Residents – WCAV
Steve Landes is our Delegate, so I figured you might be interested in his “Legislative Newsletter.”
While you’re looking, take a look at where his money comes from (courtesy of VPAP) and what bills he’s sponsoring and how he votes.
INTRODUCTION
Happy New Year! Out with the old and in with the new. My legislative aide, Judy Wyatt, and I are looking forward to the 2010 Virginia General Assembly Session which begins January 13th in Richmond. The budget will be the hottest topic but we are hoping that under the leadership of Governor-elect Bob McDonnell that Virginia will fare better than most states across the nation.
TOWN HALL MEETINGS
In preparation for the upcoming 2010 Virginia General Assembly Session, I have scheduled three town hall meetings this week. The first town meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, from 6:30 -8:00 p.m. at the Board of Supervisors’ Meeting Room at the Augusta County Government Center, 18 Government Center Lane, in Verona.
The second town meeting will be on Saturday, January 9, 2010, from 9:00 -10:30 a.m. at the Elkton Area Community Center, 20593 Blue & Gold Drive, in Elkton.
The third and last town meeting will be January 9, 2010, from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Crozet Public Library, 5791 Three Notched Road, in Crozet.
Please attend one of these meetings to express your opinions and give your suggestions to me as I prepare to represent you in Richmond during the 2010 session. I appreciate knowing what my constituents feel important as I prepare to vote on your behalf on issues of importance to all of us.
A weekly roundup of the tweets posted on RealCrozetVA’s Twitter feed. By all accounts, last week seems to have been a quiet week in Crozet. Follow some of the Crozet-area Twitter folk on this Twitter list.
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I got an interesting question the other day – –
How often do homes like this turn over/sell in Crozet? “This” being about 2000 square feet, at least three bedrooms and at least two bathrooms.
Looking at the question through the lens of its expected/possible value:
Looking at it by square footage …
Basically, if you sold your house last year in Crozet* and it fit one of these two criteria, you were pretty lucky.
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I haven’t been in yet, but at the suggestion of a reader, I took a photo and am letting y’all know.
It’s good to see a new business occupying the former BB & T spot.