On December 13, 2006, the
Albemarle County Board of Supervisors
met jointly with the Planning Commission in a work session to further discuss the
Mountain Overlay District (MOD) Committee’s recommendations
to “protect the economic, cultural, and natural resources of Albemarle County’s mountains.” After a little more than an hour of staff presentations and discussion, the Supervisors agreed to continue the work session on January 10, 2007. No substantive decisions were made. [
Link to agenda item
]
When the Supervisors
last considered mountaintop protection proposals
in September, it was the surviving initiative of the threesome that included rural area
phasing
and
clustering
. The next work session is expected to include: 1) discussion of building height restrictions and ordinance waiver provisions; 2) a decision by the Board as to whether a mountaintop protection ordinance should even be drafted for public and Board review; and 3) if an ordinance is supported, a decision about applying some of the mountaintop protection standards throughout Albemarle’s rural areas (i.e. also off the mountaintops).
Brian Wheeler
