Albemarle Supervisors to consider requests for housing fund including Premier Circle 

The six-member Board of Supervisors in Albemarle County meets for the first regular meeting of the year at 1 p.m. in Lane Auditorium. They met last week for an organizational meeting at which they selected Jim Andrews as Chair and Diantha McKeel as Vice Chair. (agenda)

After a proclamation marking Martin Luther King Jr. day, they will have a discussion of several funding requests for housing projects. (staff report)

• Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville seeks $1.5 million for 14 units at Southwood in the Cardinal Hill Apartments to ensure they are affordable for another 28 years. (view the request)
• Virginia Supportive Housing seeks additional funding for the Premier Circle project to close a shortfall, and staff is recommending $700,000. That’s less than the $750,000 City Council allocated last week. Materials from VSH state that the shortfall was $1.4 million, but those are from September 2023. (read those materials)
• Albemarle County has previously allocated $2.4 million in federal COVID funding for the project. (materials)

Supervisors will then go into closed session with a scheduled time of 2 p.m. though there is not yet a published citation of what exemption of Virginia’s open meeting laws will be used to allow for a private conversation. 

There are several public hearings in the 6 p.m. session with the first on amendments to the budget for Fiscal Year 2024. (staff report)

The second and third are associated with a request to rezone 14.9 acres of land in Crozet to the Neighborhood Model District to allow for a mixed-use development for up to 122 residential units and 16,500 square feet of non-residential use. This is the Montclair development that at one point had been named White Gate Village. There’s an associated request to change the jurisdictional areas for the Albemarle County Service Authority to allow water and sewer extension to new buildings. (staff report #1) (staff report #2)

The fourth public hearing is related to the effective date for restructuring of fees paid by developments to cover some of the cost for the Department of Community Development to process land use applications. (staff report)

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