Albemarle County Comprehensive Plan Update continues with Phase 3: Action Steps, this summer.
Our Region
PEC focuses on nine counties and one city in the northern Piedmont of Virginia: Albemarle, Charlottesville, Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene, Loudoun, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock.
We also team with local organizations to promote thriving communities and healthy natural resources in a much larger region, including the Shenandoah Valley, the central Piedmont, and the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Corridor. In addition, we are proud to serve as fiscal sponsor of the Coalition for Smarter Growth, an organization that focuses on land use and policy in the greater Washington D.C. area.
Spring Updates From Albemarle and Charlottesville
PEC has been working to support conservation programs, engage with AC44 in Phase 3 and make the most of Bike Month this spring.
New data center proposals in Brandy Station and near the Town of Culpeper
We are urging Culpeper residents to weigh in at upcoming public hearings on June 4 and 12 or via email and ask that each proposal be denied.
Cville Area Land Use Update: Week Ahead for May 28, 2024
Albemarle wants input from developers on improving Rio form-based code; Greene Supervisors to get update on water and sewer operations
Julian Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund
The Piedmont Environmental Council’s Julian Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund (the “Fauquier Fund”) is dedicated to protecting land with important natural, historic, scenic, and agricultural resources in Fauquier County, Virginia. An advisory committee, composed of local residents and PEC staff, helps identify potential projects and provide information to landowners about protecting their land.
Upcoming Meetings: Data Centers, Transmission Lines
Don’t miss these important public hearings and our June 11 event on new transmission proposals.
Cville Area Land Use Update: Week Ahead for May 20
Downtown Mall recommendations to go before City Council; MPO to vote on long-range plan, Smart Scale submissions
ACE Landowner Stories
Landowners share how the Acquisition of Conservation Easements (ACE) program impacted them.
Cville Area Land Use: Week Ahead for May 13, 2024
Albemarle PC to hold public hearing for rezoning for intelligence campus; Greene to enter into consent order with DEQ for sewer plant violations
