For decades, Albemarle’s Comprehensive Plan has divided the county’s land into two parts: a rural area where public investment is discouraged and a growth area intended to be a place where people can live, work, and play.
Yet Albemarle’s urban area lacks public open space with most of the county’s parks in the rural area or on the edge, away from direct transit access.
To begin to change that, the county’s Board of Supervisors has invested $1.65 million for urban pocket parks in the current budget…