Albemarle County has released the 2007 Fourth Quarter Building Report and 2007 Year End Building Report. Thus I have updated my previous analysis of where new building permits are being issued in the County. These do NOT reflect all newly approved developments, but rather homes in developments previously approved where a building permit has now been issued. ALSO, while the County's report includes ALL types of housing, my analysis is limited to single family detached (SFD) homes, as those are a leading indicator of future enrollment growth for Albemarle County Public Schools.
Looking back over the last twelve month period (January 2007-December 2007), SFD building permits were issued as follows in Albemarle's six magisterial districts:
105 (35.4%) in White Hall
68 (22.9%) in Rivanna
63 (21.2%) in Scottsville
42 (14.1%) in Samuel Miller
10 (3.4%) in Rio
9 (3%) in Jack Jouett
I have been tracking this data for the past four years and this past quarter had the fewest number of building permits (54) issued for single family detached homes in any quarter.
From my website you can download a historical view of this data by magisterial district (chart above). http://www.wheeleronboard.com/docs/2007Q4-BuildingReport-chart.pdf
For the SFD permits detailed above (last 12 months), the two largest sub-groups geographically were Albemarle's rural areas (65.32% of SFD permits) and the Crozet designated growth area (19.19% of SFD permits). HOWEVER, for building permits of all housing types in the County in 2007 (831 permits), 202 are in the rural areas, or 24.3%.
Brian Wheeler
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