Crozet to grow to a population of over 24,000
Crozet Fights Back

By: Tom Loach 

On January 12^th more than 300 people jammed the Crozet Firehouse to hear members of the Board of Supervisors David Wyant and Dennis Rooker endeavor to explain to the crowd why and how Crozet would grow to a population of over 24,000 people.  No one was buying it.  No sooner had Mr. Wyant and Mr. Rooker finished their opening statements then questions as to the validity of they just said started to come up.  When the crowd was asked how many attended and worked on the Crozet Master Plan many hands went up. When those same persons were asked if any of them had ever heard the number 24,000 residents as the potential population not a hand went up.  Perhaps the most telling moment of the meeting came when Mary Rice, who had worked on the Master Plan, held up a document that was distributed by the County at the second Master Planning meeting that stated very clearly the planned population under the Master Plan would be between 10,800 and 12,000.  Additional information from the original DISC committee report, which would be the basis for the Neighborhood Model and the subsequent Crozet Master Plan, was presented and showed the recommended “Ideal Maximum” population for Crozet should be 12,198.  It was also pointed out that the final Crozet Master Plan submitted to the Board of Supervisors never mentions the number 24,000, but does point to the number 12,000 in multiple sections of the document. What followed would be resident after resident standing up and making it very clear to Mr. Wyant and Mr. Rooker that no one wanted to see Crozet grow to one half the size of the city of Charlottesville. 
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