Phase 4: Prioritizing Crozet Implementation Projects
Phase 4: Prioritizing Crozet Implementation Projects
We invite you to review the draft Crozet Master Plan recommendations and share your priorities for the implementation of this plan.
These recommendations are based on collaborative work with community members, staff research, and site analysis over the past year and a half.
This questionnaire will ask you to prioritize each category of recommended implementation projects: Planning, Policy, and Capital in order of highest priority to lowest priority. Please consider the Plan's draft Guiding Principles when prioritizing projects:
- Does the project support and strengthen Crozet's history as a self-sustaining town, while ensuring that new and infill development is compatible in scale and design, and provides housing choice for all community members?
- Does the project create a multimodal transportation network that is safe and accessible for all community members, regardless of age, race, income, and ability?
- Does the project enhance Crozet's natural beauty, existing environmental resources, and the surrounding rural areas with an integrated network of parks and gathering spaces, trails, and natural areas that offer increased opportunities for outdoor recreation and protect natural resources?
How We Will Use Your Feedback
Results from this questionnaire will be shared with the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors as part of the review process for the Crozet Master Plan Update. The Board of Supervisors will provide final direction and approval on the Crozet Master Plan.
The questionnaire will be open until June 7, 2021.
About Implementation Projects
An implementation project is a planning, policy, or capital project that is recommended in the Land Use, Transportation, or Conservation chapter of the Master Plan. Implementation projects are funded and implemented through the Albemarle County Capital Improvements Program, the Community Development Work Program (as directed by the Board of Supervisors), as well as statewide transportation grants and matching programs. After the Master Plan is adopted, recommended projects are considered by the Board of Supervisors alongside recommendations across Albemarle County.
We have characterized the implementation projects into three categories:
- Planning: Projects that will develop a vision, area plan, or site plan for a specific area.
- Policy: Projects that will develop a specific policy or a proposed change to an existing policy.
- Capital: Projects that will be built or constructed, such as a trail, park, library, or road improvement.
Guide to this Questionnaire
The following pages of this questionnaire serve as a guide to all of the projects recommended in the draft 2021 Crozet Master Plan Update.
The recommendations are divided into three sections by type of project: 1) Planning Projects, 2) Policy Projects, and 3) Capital Projects. The Capital Projects section is further separated into two categories: capital projects with an estimated cost greater than $3 million, and capital projects with an estimated cost less than $3 million. This is intended to make it easier for community members and County staff to compare projects with a similar scale and timeline. The following pages include a description of each of the projects, grouped by type of project. To access the complete listing of projects, please click here.
COLOR AND NUMBER CODING throughout this document are associated with the draft Crozet Master Plan chapters. Each letter and number combination aligns with recommendations in the draft chapters.
- Yellow recommendations are from the Land Use Chapter,
- Blue recommendations are from the Transportation Chapter, and
- Green recommendations are from the Conservation Chapter.
COST ESTIMATES are general ranges and do not consider outside funding sources (such as state funds, federal funds, grants, etc.) that may reduce the project’s cost to the County.
- $: <$500,000
- $$: $500,000 - $3,000,000
- $$$: $3,000,000 - $8,000,000
- $$$$: $8,000,000 - $12,000,000
- $$$$$: >$12,000,000
REALIZATION TIMEFRAMES refer to the amount of time that it will take for a project to be completed, from start to finish, when everything is in place for the project, such as funding and land acquisition. Funding and realization timelines for identified transportation projects are estimates based on current State and Federal Transportation funding programs. When outside funding sources are needed (especially for the higher-cost projects), timelines are determined by State and Federal processes. Delays are also possible if the County is not able to secure funding for identified projects, which is not uncommon due to the competitive nature of these programs.
Virtual Information Session Recording
If you'd like to watch a recording of the Information Session from May 25, 2021 instead of reading about the projects on the following pages, view the Youtube video below: