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Next Up – Oak Bluff

Planning Commission to be scheduled by July 5

New information filed by Riverbend – Posted April 15, 2024. Narrative | Illustrative Plan | Plan | Correspondence | Special Exception Rear Setback

Link to Crozet Gazette article

Eastern Ave/250 – Dead

• In 2023, VDOT cost estimate increased to $39.5 million. The portion not covered by revenue sharing rost to $23.3 million.
• Later in the year, an environmental factor added to the priority scoring system: the project plummeted from #8 to an estimated #78 in County priority. 
• County is discussing a PPTA/Public Private Partnership model.  Although Eastern Avenue is mentioned among several possible projects in the Recommended FY25 5-Year CIP Transportation Leveraging Program, history has shown that Eastern Avenue never makes the cut for funds. 
• Timing: Riverbend wants Oak Bluff approval before a contract for Eastern is signed and the cost is funded. Cart before the horse…again?
• East Crozet is told that a primitive path and bridge across Lickinghole Creek will fill all of our transportation needs while we wait.

240 Connector – Deleted

The 2021 Crozet Master Plan, published in October 2021, does not include the Eastern Ave Connector to 240/Three Notch’d on the Future Street Network map. It is official: There never will be an Eastern Avenue Connector from 240 to 250 because the northern segment is not in County plants. Riverbend has constructed only the road segments necessary to build and sell homes.

The 2021 Crozet Transportation Study, published in June 2021, assumes that Eastern Ave will be constructed from 250 to 240. The traffic analyses in the Study obsolete because they are based on an assumption that is incorrect.

Land Use designations in East Crozet are not supported by the planned infrastructure, which no longer includes a complete Eastern Ave Connector from 240 to 250.

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Park Ridge / 240 Intersection

• Projected to be VDOT Level of Service (LOS) F in coming years. (2021 Crozet Transportation Study)
• November 2021 Montclair application provided an easement for future roundabout to improve safety and traffic (recommended in 2021 Crozet Transportation Study).
• Current plan removes corner section of parcel so no easement is provided. If not now; when?  If infrastructure is not provided for during the rezoning process, it never happens.
• With the demise of the Eastern Avenue Connector, which was assumed to be a reality in the 2021 Crozet Transportation Study, traffic analysis based on that study underestimate trips on Park Ridge.