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Updated every weekday as availableBoard Water-sewer Stance Draws Ire, Fire
Greene County Record, July 23, 2010
"Greene County was threatened with litigation at its Board of Supervisors’ regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, July 13. It happened during public hearings regarding revisions to the county’s subdivision and zoning ordinances regulating water and sewer utilities and to a proposed amendment to the county code pertaining to the regulation of private water and sewer systems."
Wssa Requirement Called Property Rights Issue
Greene County Record, July 9, 2010
"Local landowners met last week at the Best Western Charlottesville Airport Inn & Suites to discuss effects of Greene County’s new Water and Sewer Service Area (WSSA). All who would develop within WSSA are required to hook up to Rapidan Service Authority (RSA) utilities – an action that comes with a $10,000 current charge per EDU to hook up to sewer lines and a $10,000 current charge per EDU to water lines. In addition, the developer would bear all costs of constructing any infrastructure necessary to connect to that belonging to RSA."
Ruckersville Co-op Building Abandoned
Greene County Record, June 24, 2010
"Ruckersville co-op building abandoned week ago Wednesday members of the Sausser Farm cooperative that opened in Ruckersville in April went to collect their vegetables and found nobody there. The company had vacated the property it leased in April at 8881 Seminole Trail without paying any rent and without giving the landlord any idea it was leaving."
Daily Progress, June 22, 2010
"The expected autumn arrival of more than 800 Defense Intelligence Agency employees has convinced two area developers to hasten plans to build homes and office buildings. "
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Updated every week as availableWssa Requirement Called Property Rights Issue
Greene County Record, July 9, 2010
"Local landowners met last week at the Best Western Charlottesville Airport Inn & Suites to discuss effects of Greene County’s new Water and Sewer Service Area (WSSA). All who would develop within WSSA are required to hook up to Rapidan Service Authority (RSA) utilities – an action that comes with a $10,000 current charge per EDU to hook up to sewer lines and a $10,000 current charge per EDU to water lines. In addition, the developer would bear all costs of constructing any infrastructure necessary to connect to that belonging to RSA."
Supervisors Approve Comp Plan Revisions
Greene County Record, June 18, 2010
"After nearly two years of workshops and discussions the Greene County Comprehensive Plan has been updated. The Greene County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to adopt it following a public hearing – and some raised voices—at its regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, June 8. While it is advisory in nature, the state-mandated Comprehensive Plan will guide the County’s actions regarding land use, economy, physical features and quality of life in Greene for years to come. "
Daily Progress, June 22, 2010
"The expected autumn arrival of more than 800 Defense Intelligence Agency employees has convinced two area developers to hasten plans to build homes and office buildings. "
Walmart Grand Opening Planned For Sept. 1
Greene County Record, May 27, 2010
"Greene County residents will have a new place to shop very soon. “The grand opening celebration for the Walmart store in Ruckersville has been scheduled for September 1,” Tony Williams, Greene County economic development director announced Tuesday. "
Greene County Record, April 30, 2010
"The Battle of Stanardsville may not happen this year unless somebody with between 90 and 100 acres of open land steps up to the plate, offering it for reenactment use."
County Comp Plan Update Considered
Greene County Record, January 15, 2010
"The Greene County Planning Commission will soon begin public hearings about what should be written into the Comprehensive Plan update due this year. Currently, the county’s growth area is centered on the intersection of U.S. 29 and 33 in Ruckersville, and the north side of the Stanardsville bypass – but some would like that changed."
Horseback Riders Losing National Park Path Access
Greene County Record, December 10, 2009
"Stanardsville’s Judie Pagter says that Greene County automobile drivers might soon be sharing more of their roads with horses. “We’re losing our access to the trails in Shenandoah National Park,” said the avid horsewoman, who is advocating for horse trails … or at least for the creation of an access route to the park designated specifically for horseback riders. "
County Supervisors Adopt Planning District Legislative Agenda
Greene County Record, October 23, 2009
"Greene’s supervisors voted unanimously to adopt the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission’s legislative agenda at their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday, Oct. 13. “You all will be getting the last crack at it,“ said legislative liaison David Blount. The agenda has already been adopted by the other localities in the district, which are the City of Charlottesville and other than Greene, the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Louisa and Nelson. Blount’s job, as legislative liaison, is to represent the interests and positions of the localities before the state legislature and other state "
Greene County Record, October 22, 2009
"Greene’s planning commission and board of supervisors held a joint workshop Tuesday, Oct. 13 to discuss changes to the county’s comprehensive plan. The plan, adopted by state mandate and reviewed nominally every five years, identifies land use ordinances as tools that can manage growth, and at issue is the county’s growth area. For this update, the county enlisted the help of the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission and Charlottesville’s Renaissance Group to work with its planning department and citizens to create a preferred growth scenario."
C-Ville Weekly, October 26, 2009
"Planet Earth Diversified is a study in the new science of small farming. Arriving at the Stanardsville site, you’re struck by both the primitiveness and dirtiness with which small scale agricultural businesses must survive, but also, the creativity and innovation. "
