To understand how decisions are made in Albemarle County, you have to know something about the Comprehensive Plan and you have to know something about the zoning code and how it may be changing. Such an education is a key component of Charlottesville Community Engagement.
In October, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors adopted an update to the Comprehensive Plan that staff called AC44. Review had begun four years earlier.
During that same period, staff in the Department of Community Development and a firm called the Berkley Group have been working through a series of updates of the zoning code and work on a first phase has been completed and reviewed by the Board of Supervisors in August 2024 but not adopted…