Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population

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Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (ASAP) is a non-profit organization founded to take a long view about the number of people who live in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County area. The current president is Jack Marshall. The group holds monthly meetings and discussions at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Other prominent members include Francis Fife, Rich Collins, and David Shreve.

ASAP was founded in 2002 by a dozen local environmental activists; it now has about 362 members.[1] It was founded: (a) to follow up the clearly stated but unfulfilled population goals of the 1998 Sustainability Accords and Vision of Sustainability (articulated in the report of the Thomas Jefferson Sustainability Council); (b) to help provide a “big picture” view of local growth and development that looks at community planning over the long haul; and (c) to address community population growth issues that existing local environmental and civic organizations tend to neglect.

2009 report


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In 2009 the City of Charlottesville provided $11,000 in funding to ASAP to fund research regarding the area's optimal population. The report was delivered to City Council at their September 21 meeting[2].

Board of Directors[3]

External links

Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population (official site)

Notes

  1. Levine, Stephen. "The Future of Albemarle Farmland." Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population monthly meeting. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville. 18 June 2009. Address.
  2. Web. Charlottesville City Council meeting minutes, .pdf, Council Chambers, City of Charlottesville, September 21 2009.
  3. Welcome to Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population. Web. 13 Aug. 2010. <http://www.asapnow.org/about-directors.php>