 Over the past fifteen years, Crozet has seen an increasing rate of housing development, in part because of nearby Charlottesville's reputation as a desirable location, but also because Albemarle County named Crozet as a designated growth area.While parts of the County are growing significantly, 95% of the County remains designated as rural.In 2001, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors approved a framework dubbed the "Crozet Master Plan", developed by a local architect and regional planning firm, in order to regulate development patterns and provide a public forum for discussing the topic.