Albemarle County cancels Supervisors meeting until next week due to hazardous road conditions

Albemarle County is keeping their offices closed today due to fall-out from the winter storm. 

“Since 1 pm yesterday, there have been 46 motor vehicle crashes and 11 disabled vehicles in the Albemarle, Charlottesville, and UVA area,” reads an information announcement sent out at 8:59 a.m. “With freezing rain and low temperatures expected today, please remain off the roads as much as possible.”

County employees are working from home and online services are available. 

The closure of the building means the Board of Supervisors meeting scheduled for this afternoon has been canceled. They had been expected to provide direction on the Comprehensive Plan process known as AC44, but that item will be carried over until their next regular meeting on February 19. 

The Planning Commission had been expected last night to review the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space section of the Comprehensive Plan but that meeting was also canceled. All items from that meeting will now be heard on February 25.

The Crozet Community Advisory Committee is usually scheduled to meet on the second Wednesday of the month, but that meeting had already been canceled due to a potential lack of quorum.

So far the Places29-North Community Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for tomorrow night is still on. The main item on the agenda is a community meeting for an amendment to the rezoning for Brookhill development to allow more residential than currently allowed. I wrote about this back in October 2024 for C-Ville Weekly and I’ll do a recap in tomorrow’s edition of the newsletter.

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