The Nelson County Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors will have a joint work session on the Comprehensive Plan at 6 p.m. in the former Board Room at the General District Courthouse in Lovingston. Supervisors hired the Berkley Group in December 2021 to conduct the work. (meeting agenda) This work session is a chance…
The five hour public hearing featured 110 speakers and this is a very small sliver of that public comment.
On Wednesday, Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors will review work to date on AC44 process. That’s the name given to the review of the Comprehensive Plan that’s currently in the second phase. In this part of the exercise, staff are presenting a series of questions about ways that growth area boundaries might be adjusted to…
How might decisions made by the Nelson County Board of Supervisors direct that locality’s future? That’s a core question behind the development of a new Comprehensive Plan. “Planning will allow Nelson County to manage growth and capitalize on opportunities for our community,” writes Planning Commission Chair Mary Kathryn Allen on the website announcing an open…
The clock is ticking for the Charlottesville Planning Commission to make a recommendation on the city’s Development Code. Earlier this month, the City Council officially referred the new zoning and subdivision ordinance to the PC. A week later, the city released the final draft of the rules which I’ve detailed in this article. There are some other…
Does Charlottesville’s Comprehensive Plan sanction the existence of public facilities such as sidewalks and sewer pipes that would be built as part of a development in the floodplain? That was the central question asked at a public hearing before the Charlottesville Planning Commission last Tuesday. “Our focus tonight is on the review of the identified…
Church solar panels, tax change legislation fails, and MPO tried again for funding for pedestrian bridge You can learn a lot about what’s happening in the overall community by reviewing the first several minutes of one of their regular meetings of the Charlottesville Planning Commission. The following all comes from this last Tuesday’s event. Commissioner…
After half of the summer, a long fall, and half of the winter, the city of Charlottesville has published the first draft materials for the new zoning ordinance. The city is referring to these as modules, and the initial installment includes the new proposed zoning districts and the new zoning map. “The zoning rewrite is part of what…
New year, new opportunity to write about the ongoing update of Albemarle County’s Comprehensive Plan. If you’re new to such a thing, the state code of Virginia requires every locality to create and maintain a plan “for the physical development of the territory within its jurisdiction and every governing body shall adopt a comprehensive plan for the…
The Week Ahead newsletter that went out on Sunday is nearly 4,000 words long. But this is where I confess I neglected to list the meeting Wednesday of the Greene County Planning Commission. The group will meet in the administration building in Stanardsville at 6:30 p.m. but the meeting can be watched. You can also…