From today’s “A-Mail”The next Board of Supervisors Meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 starting at 9:00 a.m. in Room 241 of the County Office Building at McIntire.The meeting will begin with the recognition of June as Homeownership Month and recognition of the Crozet Master Plan by the Council on New Urbanism. For those of you arriving late, New Urbanism is the latest trend in developing – it promotes the creation and restoration of diverse, walkable, compact, vibrant, mixed-use communities composed of the same components as conventional development, but assembled in a more integrated fashion, in the form of complete communities. These contain housing, work places, shops, entertainment, schools, parks, and civic facilities essential to the daily lives of the residents, all within easy walking distance of each other.
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Places 29 update
Local residents, newly versed in the basics of master planning, sat down Wednesday night and sank their teeth into the possibilities of land use along the U.S. 29 growth corridor in Albemarle County….With 1,500 to 2,000 new residents moving into the county every year, the time to plan for growth is now, Board of Supervisors Chairman Dennis S. Rooker told the 100-or-so residents who came to the meeting at the Doubletree Hotel Charlottesville.”the time to plan is NOW???”… The time to plan was 20-25 years ago. Admit failure and move on.This is an aerial view of 29 North from 1984.
Places 29 Meeting
Received this from the Free Enterprise Forum this morning – From Albemarle County’s website “Places29 combines a transportation study of the Route 29 North Corridor with land use planning for four designated urban communities. Places29…
Agriculture is still a part of Albemarle
Costco Coming to Charlottesville, Bringing Traffic With It
Who woulda thunk that dropping 150,000 square feet of retail would bring traffic with it? The Stonefield shopping center is challenging at best to navigate – from Trader Joe’s to Pasture, for example, and is remarkably so for a pedestrian (I haven’t yet tried to bicycle there as 29 is scary).
If you’re curious to read some of the background, these are some of the stories I was writing in 2006 about Stonefield, which was originally called Albemarle Place.
Rivanna Village – 400 More Homes Coming – Near Glenmore
What they’ve done here is pretty cool.
400 more homes coming to that section of 250 East will be interesting.
“The plan also features about 32 acres of open space and linear parks, a mixed-use village center and single-family homes.”
This is a prime example of why I tell my clients that if they don’t own the land around them, they should expect it to change. I wonder how many people who moved to Glenmore in 2007 knew they’d be neighbors to this new development?
The Rivanna Village project has been in the works for over a decade … I was a bit surprised to see that I’d written about it in 2005. (sadly, the Daily Progress story to which I linked is disappointingly gone).
Further, the town centers I wrote about in 2007 have not quite come to fruition; Albemarle Place is Stonefield, Belvedere doesn’t yet have a town center and North Pointe is still a couple years away.
The Walkable City – Achievable in Charlottesville?
What would it take to make Charlottesville and Albemarle truly walkable? People who live in areas that are walkable are happier, leaner, have more money for leisure, spend more time with their families … is that really achievable in the Charlottesville area?
The answer is – the public would have to express its desire for this, the leaders would have to listen to the people, collaborate, plan and execute a vision that would enable the City of Charlottesville and County of Albemarle to create more walkable and bikeable localities. Of course, in an area that takes 30+ years to build a short Parkway, I think there’s a better chance of flying cars gaining prominence than thoughtful infrastructure being implemented.
What could be done to craft a truly walkable City/County?
Walkability matters – there are growing urban cores within Charlottesville and Albemarle and the sprawlish segmentation continues. But … what if each of these urban cores grows up and densely?
This is the original Google Map I did in 2007. I’ve updated it for today’s world. Biscuit Run is no longer planned. Albemarle Place is now Stonefield (and is built). North Pointe is far off in the horizon.
This is a map of the “town centers” in the Charlottesville – Albemarle area
(If you’re looking for homes near these, use the radius search on my search site)