Albemarle County‘s plans to finish the Eastern Avenue Corridor in Crozet included a road connecting Route 240 and Route 250 with a bridge over Lickinghole Creek, which would bisect the rich wildlife habitat on Crozet nature trail.
More than 400 concerned wildlife enthusiasts signed a Change.org petition and encouraged Albemarle County to rethink its plan so that wildlife are taken into serious consideration.
The petition description called out the county for previously expressing pride in public as responsible environmental stewards while soliciting bids to build the bridge without a protected wildlife and pedestrian corridor in the bridge’s design and breaking promises made in the county’s Biodiversity Action Plan…