Where can you get rid of your Christmas Tree in Crozet? Crozet Park. Take off the lights and ornaments please.
Recycle Christmas Trees at Crozet Park
Small Changes Coming to Great Valu
Since Great Valu sold a few weeks ago, small and not-so-small change have been taking place.
Notable changes
- New produce shelves
- New wine shelves
- Moved the eggs
- Suggestion box
- Perhaps my favorite – near the suggestion box is the Great Valu timeline and the already-submitted suggestions.
There are surely more changes I didn’t notice in my quick trip through, and more to come.
Crozet Trails Crew Assists Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation
by Teri Kostiw:
On Saturday, December 3, and Saturday, December 10, members of The Crozet Trails Crew assisted in clearing an area for The Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation where a fence will be constructed. The fence will prevent access to the current active train tracks which run beside the new access path to the Tunnel.
Allen Hale, President of the Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation and Nelson County Supervisor, along with Bob Dombrowe, Tunnel Board member and Crozet Trails Crew Vice President, spearheaded the workdays in an effort to reduce costs associated with the fence installation. The group cleared brush and removed trees blocking the pathway as well as removing trash from the site.
Following the completion of this work, The Trails Crew members were given a personal tour of the Nelson County portion of the tunnel as a thank you for their efforts. The tours of the Eastern Portal have proven very popular and when offered are sold out very quickly so the Crew appreciated this special opportunity.
Please look for further updates on the progress of the Blue Ridge Tunnel project; you can stay in touch with the project by going to www.blueridgetunnel.org. The Foundation would like to remind everyone that “for purposes of ensuring safety and eliminating liability, there is currently NO public access to either the west portal or east portal (including no access to the Blue Ridge Tunnel itself) during the reconstruction phases of the tunnel. “No Trespassing” signs have been posted on both the Nelson County and Augusta County sides of the project, and a gate now blocks entrance to the eastern trails parking lot. Violators are subject to prosecution.”
Events in Crozet – 16-18 December
I’m sure I’m missing the rest, but these are pretty cool things to do in Crozet this weekend.
Friday
- Starting today, running through the 20th –Bethlehem Village Live Nativity at Hebron Baptist Church in Afton.
Saturday
Sunday
CCAC Meeting Recap – Robotic Cars, Property Rights, Trails & More
Last night’s Crozet Community Advisory Committee (CCAC) meeting at the Meadows covered lots of ground, as always.
Highlights
- Perrone Robotics is seeking (and CCAC supported) a proffer amendment so they can move into the lumberyard. Read the tweets, but this could be a massively good thing for Crozet.
- Net vs Gross Density discussion was short.
- Great conversation about trails, trails’ value, the amazing Crozet Trails Crew, community involvement
- Don’t be a NIMBY; these meetings matter to the community, not just to that thing that affects your own back yard. And those things that matter to you? They were probably discussed (and have been discussed) for years.
- CCAC outreach to the community. My quick thought: yes, I think CCAC could push more outreach, but ultimately being a citizen sucks, is work, and takes sacrifice.
- The Crozet Gazette has the video of the CCAC meeting.
- Charlottesville Tomorrow has a good story about the meeting.
Please. Click all the way through, start at the bottom, and make your way back up.
If you’re interested, you can find all of the CCAC meeting recaps here.
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CCAC Meeting – 14 December 2016 | Proffers, Barnes, Growth
1 – This CCAC meeting is at the Meadows, without wifi. Boo.
2 – Lots of stuff on the agenda. If you’re interested in Crozet’s growth & development, please come.
3 – Because this is at the Meadows, and there is no time limit on the meeting, come prepared to be there well past 9.
CROZET COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The Meadows
Wednesday, Dec 14, 2016 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Update: these four files were sent to the CCAC google group at 11:33 this morning.
- Draft CCAC focus area priorities – econ devel – draft
- CCAC Dec 2016 Agenda
- Net v Gross Density Resolution 12-12-16
- 12_14_16 Perrone Rezoning Resolution Redraft
Agenda
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Peachtree Baseball 2017
via email:
Youth Baseball & Softball
Practices/Games played in Crozet!!
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Weekend Events in Crozet – 9-11 December 2016
I’m going to do these posts each Friday in December. Have something to add to the Crozet Calendar? Do it yourself, or email me the details. Click each event for times and details.
Friday
Saturday
- Crozet Trails Crew Work Day
- Crozet Artisan Depot Holiday Open House
- Taste Virginia at Crozet Artisan Depot
- 2017 Crozet Calendar Photo Reveal (Crozet Library)
- Crozet Community Orchestra Holiday Concert
- Holiday Hoopla in Old Trail
- Second Saturdays Art Opening @ Art on the Trax with Patrick Gibson
- The Pollocks at Batesville Market
- Grand Opening of the Blue Ridge Bottle Shop
Sunday
Monday
- Interstate 64 Corridor Study
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… a public open house to learn more about a joint study to examine transportation issues in the I-64 Corridor from Charlottesville to Staunton (I-81 Interchange). The project will examine traffic congestion, transit, vehicle speeds and public safety issues. This Open House provides an opportunity to learn about the study and interact with the study team and agency officials. Most importantly, it will allow citizens the opportunity to provide input and identify areas of concern. The project study team will be available to answer your questions and take your comments. Additional project information is available by clicking here.
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Service Tax Districts in Albemarle County?
I’ll wait for the news reports to come in before formulating my own opinion, but the tweets from Neil Williamson, of the Free Enterprise Forum, from today were interesting.
Update: Sean Tubbs with Charlottesville Tomorrow has more.
Short question – would you be willing to pay more taxes to fund infrastructure improvements in Crozet? Such as the Lickinghole Creek bridge/connector from Westhall to 250?
Say … $100/year?*
(Illustration: For a house assessed at $350,000, an increase
of 2.8 cents on the tax rate would equate to an annual
increase of $98.00; a 1.6 cent increase on the tax rate
would equate to an annual increase of $56.00. )
A few points from the County presentation: (I highly recommend you read the whole thing)
- Services districts are a tool that have been authorized for decades
- The general purpose of a service district is to provide additional, more complete or more timely services of government than are desired for the locality or localities as a whole
- Service districts are geographic areas composed of less than all of the County’s territory, and whose boundaries are established by the Board of Supervisors
- The Board may levy and collect an annual tax on real property within the service district to pay for the facilities authorized to be provided in the district
- The tax is an ad valorem tax
As the conversation continues
@CrozetGazette @cvilletomorrow excellent point would take VA state legislature to make that even possible @Steve_Landes ?
— Crozet Wx (@Crozetwx) December 8, 2016
Yes. If Crozet's Delegate & Senator patroned the bill, it would pass.
— cvillenews.com (@cvillenewscom) December 8, 2016
And I’d forgotten about these stories
- Should Crozet Become a Town? – from 2007’s cvillenews story.*
- What would Crozet’s budget look like if we were a town?
Important note – When people refer to Crozet as a “town,” they are wrong.
*This is why permanent URLs are important. I’m looking at you, Daily Progress and Albemarle County, the websites of the dead links.
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Recent RealCrozetVA facebook posts – November & December 2016
I have a friend who isn’t on facebook, and sometimes when I mention something to him that I wrote about on the RealCrozetVA facebook page, he doesn’t know what I’m talking about. He’s a big reason/reminder that I put these summary posts up.
- If you’ve not had gluten free Cutie Pies (on Jarmans Gap), you’re missing out. (3 December)
- Great rant about the (lack of safety) in front of Brownsville Market (3 December)
- Good story & discussion about NIMBYism and Trump (2 December)
- Chiles are replanting a bunch of trees (29 November)
- Looks like Restoration is going away in Old Trail (28 November)
- No more horseshoe pits in Crozet Park (27 November)
- The Crozet Bicycle Shop is Open! (25 November)
- Recap of the Crozet Board of Trade meeting, big discussion about the Master Plan update being done by the CCA, CCAC, and CBOT (21 November)
- The Crozet Trails Crew put in another bridge! (21 November)
- Good comments on the master plan update (15 November)
- Great Valu sold (15 November)
- We need to discuss affordable housing in Crozet. That’s almost *never* mentioned or discussed.
I just liked this picture
One note: I’ve started sending traffic numbers to people who send me stories or tips. I think it’s interesting to see how many people read and share facebook stories. The Brownsville Market traffic story as of this writing has reached almost 3,000 people. Not bad.