Trying to survive a weak economy, Albemarle County is asking for donations as it considers a massive funding cut for a program that preserves rural pristine land.

When a local developer was denied a site plan to turn 40 acres at North Pointe into 187 residential units, he took the matter to court.

A town meeting will be held this week so residents can talk with Albemarle County staff about Crozet infrastructure projects that are planned or under way.

Albemarle County officials are considering revisions to an ordinance that allows owners of planned developments to build under the zoning rules that were in place when the projects were approved, even if those rules have since changed.

Albemarle officials on Wednesday confronted the county’s projected $4.1 million budget deficit, but could only guess how the shortfall in the state budget could worsen Albemarle’s financial crisis.

Re: a the letter to the editor of May 31 (“Prince William’s actions honorable,” The Daily Progress): I too “celebrate” what Prince William County has done in regard to illegal immigration.

The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will hold its last public hearing tonight on its proposed $331.4 million budget. The board, however, is not expected to make a final decision on the budget and the real-estate tax rate until April 9.
Supervisors are weighing a proposed $331.4 million spending plan for fiscal 2009 in a budget season that has seen school officials lobby for more money and some anti-tax residents argue against any increase. The current real-estate tax rate is 68 cents per $100 assessed value and that’s what County Executive Robert W. Tucker Jr. proposed.