935 Addle Hill Rd, Crozet, VA 22932

Neighborhood Model District

The purpose of the Neighborhood Model district (hereinafter referred to as the NMD) is to establish a planned development district in which traditional neighborhood development, as established in the county's Neighborhood Model, will occur. The county's Neighborhood Model was adopted as part of the comprehensive plan, and is hereinafter referred to as the Neighborhood Model. The regulations in section 20A encourage a development form and character that is different from conventional suburban development by providing the following characteristics: Pedestrian orientation; Neighborhood friendly streets and paths; Interconnected streets and transportation networks; Parks and open space as amenities; Neighborhood centers; Buildings and spaces of human scale; Relegated parking; Mixture of uses and use types; Mixture of housing types and affordability; Redevelopment; Site planning that respects terrain; and; Clear boundaries with the rural areas. The NMD is intended to provide for compact, mixed-use developments with an urban scale, massing, density, and an infrastructure configuration that integrates diversified uses within close proximity to each other within the development areas identified in the comprehensive plan.; The particular uses permitted within a particular district, as well as the character, form and density of the development, shall be derived from the comprehensive plan, including the land use plan for the applicable development area, the master plan for the applicable development area, and the Neighborhood Model. Density shall be achieved with careful attention to design, as articulated in the Neighborhood Model.; These regulations are intended to provide an applicant with maximum flexibility in creating and implementing the general development plan and the code of development.