Current Issues
What's going on and how you can get involved. PEC conducts in-depth analysis of local issues relating the area's natural and community resources.
Check out our Buy Fresh Buy Local website and download your 2010 guide to Charlottesville Area farms, farmers markets, wineries, restaurants and more.
During the week of April 12th, 2010, PEC hosted Ian Lockwood, a nationally renowned transportation engineer and designer, who initiated a community discussion on the future of the Rt. 22/231 corridor.
Ask the Albemarle Board to implement the recommended and necessary transportation improvements on Route 29. Learn more from this recent PEC Email Alert.
To achieve smart local solutions, we need to coordinate local, state and federal plans.
January 7, 2010. PEC Press Release.
Traffic calming alternatives to road expansions and bypasses through Keswick and the Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District. From Winter 2010.
According to a new report by local the stream monitoring organization Streamwatch, there has been little improvement in the health of area streams.
Charlottesville Tomorrow has provided a podcast of the July 13th meeting which updated citizens on future plans for Route 29 in the Charlottesville-Albemarle region and the entire Route 29 corridor.
Listen to Rex Linville and Melissa Wiley discuss Buy Fresh Buy Local and its relationship to PEC's land conservation efforts on WINA.
A recent PEC action alert email detailing the funding challenges facing Albemarle County's land conservation program, called ACE, may have created a new ally, Charlottesville City Council.
This community has worked hard to develop water supply plan for the next 50 years. Find out where the plan currently stands and how you can get involved.
February 3, 2009. PEC Press Release.
The University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center study found that farming and forestry had a total economic impact of $79 billion in 2006 and supported more than a half-million jobs in the Commonwealth.
The regularly scheduled meetings of the Board of Supervisors are held the first two Wednesdays of the month, in Board Room 241, Second Floor, County Office Building.
The Albemarle Planning Commission meets at 6pm every Tuesday night in Board Room 241, Second Floor, County Office Building.
