Went from an apartment to a townhouse for this exact reason

Now that I bike everywhere, I find myself consuming a lot of material on urban infrastructure and this video I was listening to called stroads the "futon of the street" and now I can't unsee it.

Another day, another adventure in trying to cross the street with my dog in the crosswalk and having a car narrowly avoiding hitting me.
This time though, there were multiple witnesses.
And when the dumbass came back to threaten me a second time?

While I'm griping, I'm not a fan of the concern trolling over e-motos. They're largely an adaptation to car-centric infrastructure.

As long as we're doing Car Discourse... on a 5min walk down Hill Top, I was passed by 7 kids on various forms of scooters and bikes (3 separate groups). Kids _should_ be able to move around without us accepting their likely injury or death as simply the cost of business.

If we're going to allow children to play, we must accept that people driving too fast will sometimes run over them. It's just like vaccines, somehow.

Livable Cville Crozet Meetup! Thursday April 23 5-7 pm. Bar Botanical 2025 Library Ave Crozet All are welcome!

Crozet & Albemarle neighbors: next Thursday, Livable meetup at Bar Botanical in Crozet! Hoping for a beautiful rooftop evening. Come chat about biking, walking, land use, or *literally anything else* with friendly, cool people.

Supervisor Mallek fails to follow through on affordability promises and then expects me NOT to smoke? Come on.

Misinformation is misinformation. Even when it’s spread by tree lovers

Great research, Michael. There are also hundreds of millions of native trees in the 95% of Albemarle County that is not in a growth area. Allowing dense development inside of growth areas is an explicit trade-off to preserving the vast majority of County tree canopy.

Aerial photo of eastern Crozet in 1957. It's probably 25-40% tree coverage

Recent aerial photo of eastern Crozet (Google maps). It's probably 35-45% tree coverage

Since I'm playing with maps, I'd venture to suggest that this area of Crozet probably has more tree coverage today than it did in 1957.

So "to restore a small part of the forest that has been lost due to development" isn't just misleading, it's actually simply wrong.

Red rectangle highlights the lot "cleared for development" as being an orchard in 1937.

And in 1937, the land still wasn't forest, it was an orchard.

Red rectangle highlights clear-cut lot at the end of Hill Top

In 1957 (no house adjacent to it, that came 5 years later)

Red rectangle over Crozet shows clear-cut lot at the end of Hill Top Street.

Here's what it looked like in 1966

Aerial photo of Crozet. Red rectangle outlines the treeless bit of land at the end of Hill Top Street (which was a dead-end beside the lot at that time).

Here's what it looked like in 1974

(The lot is in the crook of the curve on Hill Top, not under the blue marker. You can see there are no trees on that lot.)

So this land has been clear of trees for AT LEAST 49 YEARS and probably longer, primarily due to farming and not development.

Why can't we do a nice thing and plant a few native trees without making it about ensuring no one who doesn't already live here can ever afford a home in Albemarle County?

This is such needlessly NIMBY framing of this project. The single-family house adjacent to the project lot was built in 1962. Crozet was not designated a growth area until 1971. Here's a satellite photo from 1977 showing the lot and a MASSIVE adjacent area were already cleared for farming.

Project to replant trees on Crozet property postponed a week Volunteers will now head out to the Parkside Village Green on April 25 to restore a small part of the forest that has been lost due to development.

"Volunteers will now head out to the Parkside Village Green on April 25 to restore a small part of the forest that has been lost due to development. Over the years since Albemarle County targeted Crozet for development, the community has lost thousands of trees."

www.cbs19news.com/news/project...

Last night was incredibly frustrating for me but the conversation was mostly good and helpful. Frustrating that we have to play a shell game every year in order to find the money to support projects that provide deeply affordable housing and emergency relief.

North 29 is looking like a strip mall for gas stations serving commuters we've priced out of the county by blocking housing.

If the solution to bad code were to Simply Write Good Code, I imagine we would have done it by now.

I think people have an idealized notion of software development. If unit tests had solved the nuance and complexity involved in life, thousands upon thousands of people wouldn't be dedicating so much of their time to maintaining those tests.

Working on progressive underload. Going to the gym every single day, a little less weight and fewer reps each time. Ultimate goal is to go in one day, smash a single rep with zero weight on every muscle group, then yell "fuck yeah" and high five everyone on my way out.

Community Development Department Building Permit ALTC-2026-00045 Issue Date: 03/31/2026 Alteration of original white box unit # 110 to enhance the tenant space for a "as is" location and help offset small tenant construction cost with higher level of finish. Future Tenant will be required to obtain final CO (if required) and zoning clearance 1160 OLD TRAIL DR 110, CROZET, VA 22932 055E00100000C2 OLD TRAIL VILLAGE CENTER LLC Sanger Carpentry

Photo of unfinished commercial space, basically a floor covered with gravel

Apparently the landlord at Old Trail realized that renting out a massive restaurant space is difficult when the tenant is expected to foot the bill to finish the space.

Picture of a hand holding a round loaf of bread with the Wendell House "flying pig" sign in the background.

Crozet crew, Wendell House is giving away a bunch of Italian loaves, come get 'em when they open tomorrow at 10!

Tokyo taught me that if you take pedestrian infrastructure far enough, you eventually have to start working on umbrella infrastructure.

could stop voting for his appointees

Today's "this could have been an e-bike ride": dentist visit across from Harris Teeter.

If we had the eastern avenue bridge AND a public bike connection through Windy Knoll, I could have gotten there faster by bike than by car.