Albemarle County Supervisor Dennis S. Rooker announced Wednesday he will retire after three terms representing the Jack Jouett District. Moments later, Rooker endorsed a successor. “I would not be comfortable doing this if there were not someone willing to run for this office whom I admire and with whom I have great confidence,” Rooker […]
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Off-road vehicle course near Crozet under investigation
Albemarle County has ordered the operators of an off-road vehicle course near Crozet to stop holding events in which four-wheel-drive vehicles attempt to cross huge boulders and other obstacles. The group Rock Crawlers for the Preservation of Future Access has held events for several years on land owned by Joseph T. Henley III. “We […]
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Albemarle water customers to get rate decrease
Albemarle residents on public water might see a slight decrease in rates next fiscal year because fewer water-related capital projects are planned and because of increased connection fees charged to developers. “The average residential monthly bill will be going down by 1 percent,” said Gary O’Connell, executive director of the Albemarle County Service Authority. […]
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Report: Current design would lengthen travel time through bypass interchange
Traveling through the interchange on the southern end of the proposed Western Bypass would take motorists almost three times longer under the current design compared with the original, according to an internal report on the project. Using an elevated ramp — a so-called flyover, part of a 1997 design — a truck traveling 45 mph […]
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Impact of Dumler’s continued service gets more debate
Three weeks after pleading guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery, Albemarle County Supervisor Christopher J. Dumler faces mounting pressure to leave office. Angry residents have emailed Dumler’s allies on the Board of Supervisors, chastising them for not calling on him to resign. Following his fall arrest, Dumler was moved out of committee posts related to police […]
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Albemarle Democrats cancel Dumler appearance
Embattled Albemarle Supervisor Christopher J. Dumler will not appear at a Democratic Party event this morning that attracted attention from several would-be protestors. The Albemarle and Charlottesville Democratic committees originally invited Dumler and Supervisor Ann H. Mallek to speak about issues facing county government in the coming year. Cynthia Neff, vice-chair of the Albemarle […]
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Albemarle plans to rebuild road network at Belvedere; Supervisors updated on other capital projects
The man in charge of capital improvement projects in Albemarle County updated the Board of Supervisors last week on tens of millions of dollars in planned projects. Trevor Henry, Albemarle’s director of facilities development, said one big surprise is cost overruns for a project to rebuild roads in the Belvedere neighborhood. “It’s at a […]
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Supervisor Rooker seeks discussion about road priorities
Albemarle Supervisor Dennis S. Rooker expressed concern Wednesday that the Metropolitan Planning Organization is considering future road projects, such as an extension of the Western Bypass, without consulting the entire Board of Supervisors. “It’s alarming to see this moving forward and we have projects that we’ve never even seen any presentation on,” Rooker said. […]
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Feds want clarity on conflicting bypass numbers
As the Virginia Department of Transportation continues to revise an environmental assessment for the proposed Western Bypass of U.S. 29, one debate centers around a claim made by a VDOT engineer about how many vehicles the limited-access highway will actually serve. “One point to be made is that most of the traffic on Route 29 […]
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Shopping center with Wegmans passes hurdle
A new shopping center on Fifth Street near Interstate 64 is on track for a groundbreaking late this year. One confirmed tenant is a Wegmans grocery store. On Tuesday, the Albemarle County Planning Commission recommended approval of a permit that would allow the developers of the proposed Fifth Street Station shopping center to fill in […]
