Nestled on the eastern slope of Saddleback Mountain, a small cottage in the woods has been a family retreat for sisters Gayle and Cathy Soloe for decades, since their father first purchased the 89-acre parcel adjacent to Shenandoah National Park in 1958.
Greene County
PEC serves as an asset to citizens in Greene who seek to protect this traditionally agricultural community from increasingly rapid development.
On the Ground Updates — December 2025
A series of short updates from around the PEC region – Albemarle & Charlottesville, Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene, Loudoun, Madison, Orange & Rappahannock.
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for October 27, 2025
This week: Greene Supervisors to hold work session on further restrictions on agritourism events
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for October 13, 2025
This week: Albemarle PC to review removal of properties from ag-forest district; Economic development groups to learn about Innovation Corridor
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for October 6, 2025
This week: Charlottesville City Council to consider $6.2 million purchase of office building for low-barrier homeless shelter
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for September 22, 2025
This week: Changes coming to the Rio-29 Form-Based Code; Rivanna River Basin Commission to talk data centers at annual conference
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for September 15, 2025
This week: Albemarle Supervisors to get update on climate action initiatives; Right-of-way negotiations reach impasse for East High Streetscape
On the Ground Updates – September 2025
A series of short updates from around the PEC region – Albemarle & Charlottesville, Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene, Loudoun, Madison, Orange & Rappahannock.
Cville Land Use: Week Ahead for August 11, 2025
This week: The Albemarle Board of Supervisors is slated Wednesday to adopt an economic development strategic plan at a joint meeting with the Albemarle Economic Development Authority
The SCC Must Protect Ratepayers From Big Tech’s Skyrocketing Energy Bill
Weigh in! The State Corporation Commission (SCC) is hearing the 2025 biennial review of Dominion Energy’s rates, terms, and conditions for generation and transmission infrastructure. This rate case is the first opportunity to address the electricity rate structure for the largest concentration of data centers in the world.