CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Capacity is the operative word these days in Albemarle County, as the Board of Supervisors consider the ongoing issues around density in the development area, but the school division has its own set of issues in that arena as well.
The county has recently begun construction on multi-million-dollar capital projects, first at Center 2 on the Lambs Road campus near Albemarle High School, and Mountainview Upper Elementary, which is on Avon Street. Center 2 is an alternative career development educational space for high school students which is being constructed to assist with overcrowding in the high schools, and Mountainview was viewed as absolutely necessary given the growth in the Avon/Mill Creek region of the county.
However, despite these efforts the county is now faced with the realities of rapid growth in the region and ongoing capacity issues specifically in the high schools…