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I asked last week on the RealCrozetVA Facebook page (and emailed as well) for Steve Landes’ to explain his choice to not vote on on the Tracy Thorne-Begland judicial vote.
Delegate Landes responded this morning: Continue reading “Steve Landes’ Response to his Abstension on Tracy Thorne-Begland’s Judicial Vote”
Driving home yesterday, lamenting how I had missed both the Crozet and Charlottesville markets, I wondered if a mid-week late afternoon farmers market which be feasible or viable in Crozet. What do you think?
The response on FB to my query was quite positive.
As a side note, who updates the Crozet Farmers’ Market page on Local Harvest? The page hasn’t been updated since 2010.
Related:
– Help the Crozet Farmers’ Market (2009)
– What’s the future of the Crozet Farmers’ Market? (2010) Continue reading “Could a Mid-Week Farmers’ Market Work in Crozet?”
Last week I lamented the possibility of Crozet Avenue becoming a bottleneck. This week, it appears that the right turn lane may not be viable. After the break, you can see Piedmont Development Group’s proposal for a right turn lane followed by Albemarle County’s response. I’m no engineer so I’ll leave it to those who know better as to whose response is more practical. All I know is this – traffic and congestion are coming; those who live within walking or biking distance of downtown Crozet will benefit greatly from the growth.
From the CCAC’s April draft minutes:
Crozet’s Independence Day Celebration, parade & fireworks on Saturday, June 30th. Parade line-up at 3:00 PM around Crozet Elementary. Parade starts at 4PM, goes down Crozet Avenue to Tabor Street to Crozet Park. Festivities there like last year. Fireworks at 9:30 PM., The same two bands are back, sound system and fireworks are booked, need to raise money to pay for the fireworks. CCAC members will take donations at the gate again this year. Think the White Hall Ruritans will do parking again. Need to make sure no construction on Crozet Ave for parade get the word out for the County so there’s no StreetScape work that messes up the street or sidewalks. Organizations can have “booth” at Park for celebration. Next planning meeting is May 3rd at the Firehouse; anyone is welcome to come, to help.
Agenda after the jump … as always, lots of pertinent stuff on the agenda!
The draft minutes from the April meeting and draft agenda are here. Take some time to read the minutes from the last meeting – there is a lot of stuff there that matters, from the CSX parking lot deal to the Street Scaping, to the Crozet Library, Crozet’s potential historic districts … Continue reading “CCAC Meeting This Thursday – 17 May 2012”
More good food, more kids’ stuff, more arts, more crafts … and no rain! Walking to the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival twice a year is one of my favorite things.
Crozet has a new place to eat burgers.
In the former Pesto Grille space comes Mountainside Grille. Beer, burgers*, cheese fries, grilled cheese and more (menu is below). And because I know people are likely to be searching for their phone number – Mountainside Grille’s phone number is 434-823-7080.
* Mountainside is being run by a former long-term employee of Riverside Grill … I haven’t eaten there yet so can’t make any determination as to the tastiness of the burgers, but early reports are that the food is tasty.
Storified by Jim Duncan · Thu, May 10 2012 17:40:48
A question from the RealCrozetVA Facebook page:
This is a real estate (for my clients) and a “welcome to Crozet” question –
1: What would you tell those moving to the Crozet area about the Crozet Master Plan?
2: What would you tell those moving to Crozet about Crozet?
Good, bad, ugly … just honest.
Update 4 May 2012:
I would tell them that Crozet retains its small town flavor, despite the growth due to the Master Plan so far. However, because of this growth, there has been strain on our infrastructure and schools and so far the BOS and BoEd and the Planning Commission seem to be working in silos when it comes to this.
They approve huge developments like Gray Rock and Old Trail without concurrent planning for schools and roads – that should take place at the same time, not at crisis time (Crozet Elementary in 2007 and now Brownsville in 2012). There is some tension between long time residents and those that move in to these developments and want to remake Crozet into something else. I think all residents are afraid of 250 becoming yet one more plain vanilla expanse of national chain stores. My biggest piece of advice would be to GET INVOLVED!
With schools, Crozet Trails Crew, youth sports, Crozet Community Association, Crozet Park, and so on. Take the time to walk the downtown area, go to the farmer’s market, and meet the local business owners tucked away in those funky old imperfect buildings.
That is the charm of Crozet. We came from a picture postcard perfect small New England Town in 2005, and realize now that it is not the exteriors of the buildings, but those inside them that make Crozet so friendly and special.
Good fun. You should go. Not only are they local, they’re delicious.
Also, from last year’s discussion:
We are not an organic farm, but run a strong IPM program (we let the good bugs do as much work as they can), and treat with chemicals only when necessary. Thanks for the question! And thanks for enjoying our strawberries- they are amazing right now!
Goodbye greenspace and rarely-if-ever-used horseshoe pits. Hello Quick Start Tennis in Crozet Park.
via press release:
Charlottesville, Virginia (5/1/2012) – QuickStart Tennis of Central Virginia (QCV) is pleased to announce construction has started on three 36-foot QuickStart Tennis courts at Claudius Crozet Park in Crozet, Virginia as part of QCV’s Bring Tennis Back to the Park! collaboration with the Park Board.