When the Albemarle Board of Supervisors and the Charlottesville City Council meet in CitySpace on October 6, one of the topics on the agenda is annual report from a closed-door group that replaced a public body six years ago.
“The Land Use and Environmental Planning Committee was established to share and coordinate land use and development plans and projects; consider environmental and infrastructure issues facing the community; and, from time to time, advance ideas and solutions that support our mutual advantage,” reads a description in the six-page presentation.
In late 2019, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors and Charlottesville City Council voted to dissolve a public body known as the Planning and Coordination Council which had provided an opportunity for elected officials to meet with their counterparts at UVA at a public meeting.
LUEPC is the replacement and does include any elected officials and certainly not enough to trigger Virginia’s open meeting rules.
According to the LUEPC website, the body has not met since May 15 but that is not true.
According to Charlottesville Planning Commissioner Hosea Mitchell, LUEPC has met since then but said it was not an update on policy issues.
“We went on a field trip,” Mitchell said at the September 9 meeting of the Planning Commission “It was a fun field trip. The field trip was to the Birdwood Mansion. The Birdwood Mansion is an edifice that was built between 1819 and 1830.”
The presentation created for the joint meeting does not mention this meeting.
According to the website, rooms have been available for overnight accommodations since March 2026 at the Ivy Road landmark owned by the University of Virginia Foundation. That organization was created after UVA, Albemarle, and Charlottesville entered into a Three-Party Agreement which established guidelines for planning and development. That also led to the creation of the now-shuttered PACC.
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