Last week, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved a request from planning staff to submit an application for a federal grant intended to address places that have been affected by being cut off due to transportation infrastructure.
Albemarle is seeking $300,000 through the Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods program for a corridor study between Hydraulic Road and Hilton Heights Road. This is a resubmission after one sent in last year was unsuccessful.
“Staff learned in a debrief with Federal staff that the application had scored very highly,” reads a staff report. “Federal staff noted minor points of improvement for the application if the County chose to resubmit.”
This time around, Charlottesville staff will also participate.
“We are supporting this grant application area and the study area north of the 250 bypass on either side of Route 29 including the Meadows neighborhood and Michie Drive in the city,” Hicks said.
The grant application comes at a time when there are several funded projects in that area. These are a conversion of the Hydraulic and Hillsdale intersection into a roundabout, a pedestrian bridge across U.S. 29 at Zan Road, and changes to Hydraulic Road’s intersections with Brandywine Drive and Michie Drive. A public hearing for these projects was held in May 2022. (VDOT website on these projects)
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