The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors decided to wait to vote on the final version of the Places29 master plan.
Charlottesville Tomorrow reports that Supervisors want the business community to be satisfied with the plan. Earlier this week, both the Free Enterprise Forum, a conservative advocacy group, and the North Charlottesville Business Council vocally opposed the plan as it is currently written.
The issue at hand, says Charlottesville Tomorrow, is the word “necessary,” which appears in multiple parts of the plan, in reference to grade-separated interchanges.
Last year, county planners released an implementation chapter to the master plan that highlighted the top five priorities in transportation and land-use management.
One of the five was the construction of the grade-separated interchange at Rio Road and Rte. 29.
“The Free Enterprise Forum has raised concerns regarding the liability of the maintenance of traffic during construction of the grade-separated interchange,” said Neil Williamson, executive director of the Free Enterprise Forum, then. “We remain concerned that if all the interchanges were built, and limited access to 29 was created, the need would grow to an expressway rather than a main street.”