In June, the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission released a Community Priorities Questionnaire designed to measure what issues residents from Charlottesville and Albemarle County consider most important for the future development of the area. According to those who responded to the survey, the No. 1 priority for residents of both ...

If you wanted to find out how Albemarle County’s planning goals compare with Charlottesville’s, until now you would have had to compare the two government’s Comprehensive Plans side by side — if you could even find them. On Monday, the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission publicly launched an ...

  Our Comprehensive Plans describe a vision for how we experience this community: how we get around, where we live, the way our buildings look, where our green spaces are located, etc. But to a casual observer, trying to probe these massive documents for information can be cumbersome.    The Local Plans ...