*STAR*
Stanardsville Area Revitalization Program
P. O. Box 838
Stanardsville, Virginia 22973
You Can Make Stanardsville Better!
A better place to live, work and visit
Join other residents in setting goals and
planning the Town’s future
Thursday June 8 At 7 Pm
In The Town Hall
Your ideas will make a difference
Community Services, Retail Stores and
Services, Housing, An Enjoyable and Safer Main Street,
Walking and Cycling Trails, Historic Preservation, Parks and
Recreation
Government grants can help, but not
without your ideas!
Refreshments Will Be Served
Sponsored by Stanardsville Area
Revitalization (*STAR*), Greene County’s EDA and Virginia’s
Department of Housing and Community Development
A message from Don
Pamenter of STAR - June 4, 2006
Hi all,
As many of you will know, we have received a Community
Development Block Grant to help us develop a master plan for
the revitalization of Stanardsville. This is a small grant
that will be increased if we show a high level of community
need and public interest. We need your support.
DHCD set some challenging requirements that must be
accomplished before June 30 (they originally set a deadline
for May 22, but we didn’t receive the letter until late
April and so appealed for a postponement).
The five major preliminary requirements include:
Hold a public meeting to generate support for the
planning process.
Designate individuals who will become a
“management team” for the planning process, and then
meet with them.
Prepare preliminary assessments of area
assets/needs: housing; infrastructure (e.g. sewer,
water and utilities), and buildings with potential
commercial use.
Retain a skilled facilitator to help with the
next phases of the planning process.
Report on our accomplishment of these
requirements.
If we perform well on these, DHCD may give us more money
to support our planning activities, and possibly fund
development of an application for a major grant.
We have set June 8th as the first public meeting
(7pm at the Town Hall). Please see the attached flyer.
We placed an ad in the Greene County Record, which I hope
you all noticed. We also had a booth at Saturday’s
Strawberry Festival, where we promoted the meeting
(by-the-way, the Festival was a wonderful success for Greene
and Stanardsville!). We will be placing posters in the local
stores this week. Please do your best to attend this
preliminary planning session.
We have also identified some of the people who we would
like to become part of the management team.
Finally, we have retained a skilled facilitator with
great experience in the DHCD processes – Bill Wanner from
the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission.
I was delighted by the response to *STAR* at the
Strawberry Festival. During the period between 8 am and 3
pm, there were seldom more than a couple of minutes when no
one was looking at our display and asking questions. The
response was overwhelming positive. People want to
improve Stanardsville! It is up to us to turn
interest into participation, participation into plans, and
plans into reality.
Your ideas and support will make a difference. Please do
everything you can to arrange you schedule to attend. DHCD
will consider the level of community support, as evidenced
by attendance at public meetings, when they decide the full
grant they will approve.
Best regards,
Don Pamenter
