Unlike Charlottesville, Albemarle County’s Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission play an important role in deciding what can be built where.
The county’s zoning code describes what can happen on a given property. Developers can seek rezonings and Virginia law requires a locality’s Planning Commission to recommend what elected officials should do.
Sometimes proposals are not quite ready to go before the Planning Commission at a public hearing. That was the case on October 28 when the developers of the Belvedere community in the county’s Rio District sought an amendment to an existing rezoning. The site is now owned by Greenwood Homes…