FAQs
“This Place Augusta” Series
2011 Programs:
OCT 17, 2011 Water Augusta
NOV 29, 2011 Settlement Augusta
2012 Programs:
Town and Country Augusta – Jan. 31, 2012
(Steve Saufley, Virginia Farm Bureau Board Member)
Hear the farmer’s perspective. What is the rural lifestyle like and what are the changes and the challenges for those who work the land? Farmers can chime in and townies and suburbanites can appreciate what it takes to be a farmer in 2012.
Planning Augusta – Feb. 29, 2012
(County planning officials)
The Comprehensive Plan is supposed to guide development. What does Augusta
County’s Plan say? Find out what those colors on the Future Land Use Map mean,
what ordinances require, and how county policies address the water, historic, and
agricultural resources discussed in previous sessions.
Conserve as You Grow Augusta – Mar. 27, 2012*
(Sara Hollberg, author of Better Models for Development)
Keeping nature intact as a community develops can add to fiscal and environmental
health as well as to quality of life. See examples of how landowners, policy makers, & developers have incorporated conservation into development plans. From farms & forest to urban oases and from greenways to rain gardens, we can “conserve as we grow.”
Future Augusta APR30, 2012
Sessions at 7 pm at the Augusta County Government Center.
For information, call 540.886.3541 or email sara@valleyconservation.org.
Hosted by the Augusta Community Partnership and organized by Valley Conservation Council, Headwaters Soil and Water Conservation District, and Augusta County Farm Bureau. Funding assistance from the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge and the USDA Forest Service – Urban & Community Forestry Program.