Crozet residents can give input on neighborhood

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: August 20, 2008

Though builders and architects will do the hard work, local residents will get the chance this week to suggest how a new neighborhood two blocks from downtown Crozet should be designed.

The Piedmont Housing Alliance is turning 10 acres off Blue Ridge Avenue into a neighborhood with several dozen homes. The housing alliance, along with the Charlottesville Community Design Center, is sponsoring a workshop at which attendees can take a tour and talk with architects.

The new houses will range in price from $150,000 to $450,000, said Mandy Burbage of the community design center.

The housing alliance intends for the new neighborhood to be sensitive to the environmental and physical features of the site, to provide homeownership opportunities for Crozet’s workforce and to provide a place where Crozet residents can “age in place.”

The design workshop is slated to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday with a walking tour of the site. Attendees should meet at Crozet United Methodist Church. After lunch from noon to 12:30, residents can participate in an interactive design session with local architects and landscape architects.

The event is slated to conclude at 4 p.m.

For more information, contact Burbage at 984-2232.