Albemarle’s growth management policy calls for residential development to be focused in designated areas and for amenities to be in place for the people who live there. However, there are not many parks in the urban sections of the county.
This year, Albemarle County is moving ahead with plans to convert a stormwater basin on Hillsdale Drive into a pocket park. Staff applied for a site development plan on March 10 and a dashboard on the Civic Access tracking website states that the review is due on April 20, 2026.
The budget for the project is $420,000 and comes out of a $1.65 million fund set aside by the Board of Supervisors in the FY26 budget for pocket parks.
The site plan itself is in the land use portal called Civic Access. The only other attachment is a March 13 letter from the Virginia Department of Transportation stating no objections to the plans. Take a look!…